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I've had Brady for about 2 years now and he's never had any litter box issues.
I typically keep an old rug underneath the litter box so that if he steps out and gets litter out of the box, it isn't just on the floor.
Yesterday I was in the laundry room and caught him squatting behind the litter box on the rug, just peeing.
I was upset and pulled up the rug to discover he had apparently been peeing on it for a while! What the heck!
So i washed the rug like 4 times and I couldn't smell the urine anymore so I put it back under the box, thinking maybe he was upset with me because it takes me a few days to clean his litter box sometimes. Telling myself that I needed to keep up on it more and that maybe he was peeing outside of it because it wasn't clean enough, so I cleaned it to perfection yesterday.
BUUUUUT today the rug smells like cat pee again. And the litterbox is still spotless clean and empty.
However, we recently got a new kitten (think 2 days ago) and they get along fine, but I have witnessed Brady peeing in the kitten's temporary upstairs litterbox.
So he'll pee in the upstairs litterbox but pees on the rug downstairs by his regular litterbox.
I'm stumped. Is he just peeing on the rug out of habit, and now again because he can still smell his old urine?
Is it a UTI?
Any advice? I don't know how to resolve this.
Thanks for any help!
I typically keep an old rug underneath the litter box so that if he steps out and gets litter out of the box, it isn't just on the floor.
Yesterday I was in the laundry room and caught him squatting behind the litter box on the rug, just peeing.
I was upset and pulled up the rug to discover he had apparently been peeing on it for a while! What the heck!
So i washed the rug like 4 times and I couldn't smell the urine anymore so I put it back under the box, thinking maybe he was upset with me because it takes me a few days to clean his litter box sometimes. Telling myself that I needed to keep up on it more and that maybe he was peeing outside of it because it wasn't clean enough, so I cleaned it to perfection yesterday.
BUUUUUT today the rug smells like cat pee again. And the litterbox is still spotless clean and empty.
However, we recently got a new kitten (think 2 days ago) and they get along fine, but I have witnessed Brady peeing in the kitten's temporary upstairs litterbox.
So he'll pee in the upstairs litterbox but pees on the rug downstairs by his regular litterbox.
I'm stumped. Is he just peeing on the rug out of habit, and now again because he can still smell his old urine?
Is it a UTI?
Any advice? I don't know how to resolve this.
Thanks for any help!