Hey folks! I have read as many threads as I possibly can. My poor kitty is a 4 year old spayed female, and no matter what I've tried, I still can't seem to get her to stop peeing and pooping in places that she should't.
It didn't start till I moved into my current home, which is a 3 level townhouse. We added a literbox to each level of the house, and 2 in the basement. I put one up on the wet bar, and one behind it, which is lenolium on the floor, not carpet. I clean my boxes two, sometimes three times a day, so a dirty box isn't the problem.
I then took her to the vet to make sure it wasn't a UTI, which was a no go. I got a full blood pannel done, and a full urine check, and stool sample, everything i can think of. No worms, no UTI, nothing wrong with her at all. Which is why I'm considering this a behavior problem, and not a health problem.
We tried switching liters, thinking that maybe as she was getting older, that she might not like the liter I was using before. I tried scented clay, unscented clay, fine grain clay, large grain clay, pine liter, citrus liter, corn liter. Pretty much any brand that i could find in any store. The cheapest, to the most expensive. Nothing mattered.
There was a cat that lived here, that was not fixed. I know that he sprayed, so i knew when i moved in that I was going to have to replace the carpet in some places. I have since replaced all of the carpet and the padding underneath in the house, and even most of the drywall. I even replaced linolium behind the wet bar, in my kitchen, and in the bathrooms.
I've tried feliway plug-ins and spray. Neither made any difference.
I have two cat tree's, and a perch in a window, that is the highest point in the house.
I then tried locking her in the bathroom, and using the seclusion method. She was in the bathroom for almost 2 weeks, and i felt so amazingly guilty. She was doing really well, didn't have any accidents for the whole last week, so we let her out, thinking that she'd be ok. That was a no. She went right back to her old habits.
I've made sure that there were no cats in the back yard, that would be causing her to stress out during the day, while I'm gone.
I'm at my wits end. There's nothing else that I can think to do. My husband is threating to make me get rid of her, because he cant handle it anymore. He's tired of coming home, and cleaning up pee and poop (he gets home before me), and ruining our new carpet. Not to mention, he doesn't want to miss something, and have our daughter accidently get into it. Car fecees can be deadly to young children, and while I think she's smart, she's also been caught playing in the toilet, so i wouldn't put a friendly cat log totally out of the realm of possiblity.
If there's anything else that you can think of. Anything at all, please help me out!
Thank you so much!
-Jade
It didn't start till I moved into my current home, which is a 3 level townhouse. We added a literbox to each level of the house, and 2 in the basement. I put one up on the wet bar, and one behind it, which is lenolium on the floor, not carpet. I clean my boxes two, sometimes three times a day, so a dirty box isn't the problem.
I then took her to the vet to make sure it wasn't a UTI, which was a no go. I got a full blood pannel done, and a full urine check, and stool sample, everything i can think of. No worms, no UTI, nothing wrong with her at all. Which is why I'm considering this a behavior problem, and not a health problem.
We tried switching liters, thinking that maybe as she was getting older, that she might not like the liter I was using before. I tried scented clay, unscented clay, fine grain clay, large grain clay, pine liter, citrus liter, corn liter. Pretty much any brand that i could find in any store. The cheapest, to the most expensive. Nothing mattered.
There was a cat that lived here, that was not fixed. I know that he sprayed, so i knew when i moved in that I was going to have to replace the carpet in some places. I have since replaced all of the carpet and the padding underneath in the house, and even most of the drywall. I even replaced linolium behind the wet bar, in my kitchen, and in the bathrooms.
I've tried feliway plug-ins and spray. Neither made any difference.
I have two cat tree's, and a perch in a window, that is the highest point in the house.
I then tried locking her in the bathroom, and using the seclusion method. She was in the bathroom for almost 2 weeks, and i felt so amazingly guilty. She was doing really well, didn't have any accidents for the whole last week, so we let her out, thinking that she'd be ok. That was a no. She went right back to her old habits.
I've made sure that there were no cats in the back yard, that would be causing her to stress out during the day, while I'm gone.
I'm at my wits end. There's nothing else that I can think to do. My husband is threating to make me get rid of her, because he cant handle it anymore. He's tired of coming home, and cleaning up pee and poop (he gets home before me), and ruining our new carpet. Not to mention, he doesn't want to miss something, and have our daughter accidently get into it. Car fecees can be deadly to young children, and while I think she's smart, she's also been caught playing in the toilet, so i wouldn't put a friendly cat log totally out of the realm of possiblity.
If there's anything else that you can think of. Anything at all, please help me out!
Thank you so much!
-Jade
