Some of you may remember I posted a bit ago about our new kitten that had coccidia and one of our resident cats suddenly peeing outside the box.
The coccidia is cleared up, kitten is happy and healthy, but the 'outside the box peeing' has become a problem with our other cat Ludatsi.
She is *not* an anxious cat. At first we thought it was because she was a little stressed due to the new kitten yowling in his quarantine room but he's out now and she's still doing it. She does not otherwise act stressed, she's a pretty laid back little kitty. She's not hiding, she's eating and drinking fine, she's playing (even with the new kitten, though a little warily).
She does frequently have bladder infections but her behavior when she does is totally different (visits the litter box frequently, like several times in ten minutes or so, with only small amounts expressed) and it's usually a pretty obvious tell that she's got the infection. She's not doing that. We also got Feliways to try and help if it *was* anxiety of some kind that for some reason is only showing in the urination.
What she's doing is about once a day, she finds some random place in the house (on top of a plastic bin, in front of the door, on the upstairs landing, beside the litter box, in the bathroom, on the couch, etc) and empties a full bladder. The first time she did it on the couch where I sit and then on my desk chair, so I thought it may be my hormones that she was triggering on (I'm having some lady health issues) but the pattern now seems to just be random and not 'me' specific.
It doesn't seem to be the litter: she poops consistently in the box and pees in them the rest of the time. It doesn't seem to be privacy: we added two more boxes in more private locations and while she uses them the problem is continuing.
She seems to do it most often in the morning, so we've taken to putting her in the cat room for twenty minutes or so right after we get up until she pees in the box, then letting her out. We did that this morning, she peed in the box, and we let her out. Now it's about two hours later and she has apparently peed on the desk, in the upstairs hallway, and in the bathroom next to the box we put in there.
Any thoughts on what else we can do? She usually pees on hard surfaces which is a god send because it's easier to clean, we use an enzyme cleaner (which unfortunately I'm highly allergic to so I can't be in the same room when its used for a good twenty minutes), we praise her up and down when we do catch her using the litter box- we're just stumped what else it could be that's causing her to do this.
Nothing has changed in the environment outside- no strange cats she's triggering on and she doesn't seem to really be doing it as a 'territorial' thing. We're both pretty decent cat people and we're just stumped what else to try or how to help her.
The coccidia is cleared up, kitten is happy and healthy, but the 'outside the box peeing' has become a problem with our other cat Ludatsi.
She is *not* an anxious cat. At first we thought it was because she was a little stressed due to the new kitten yowling in his quarantine room but he's out now and she's still doing it. She does not otherwise act stressed, she's a pretty laid back little kitty. She's not hiding, she's eating and drinking fine, she's playing (even with the new kitten, though a little warily).
She does frequently have bladder infections but her behavior when she does is totally different (visits the litter box frequently, like several times in ten minutes or so, with only small amounts expressed) and it's usually a pretty obvious tell that she's got the infection. She's not doing that. We also got Feliways to try and help if it *was* anxiety of some kind that for some reason is only showing in the urination.
What she's doing is about once a day, she finds some random place in the house (on top of a plastic bin, in front of the door, on the upstairs landing, beside the litter box, in the bathroom, on the couch, etc) and empties a full bladder. The first time she did it on the couch where I sit and then on my desk chair, so I thought it may be my hormones that she was triggering on (I'm having some lady health issues) but the pattern now seems to just be random and not 'me' specific.
It doesn't seem to be the litter: she poops consistently in the box and pees in them the rest of the time. It doesn't seem to be privacy: we added two more boxes in more private locations and while she uses them the problem is continuing.
She seems to do it most often in the morning, so we've taken to putting her in the cat room for twenty minutes or so right after we get up until she pees in the box, then letting her out. We did that this morning, she peed in the box, and we let her out. Now it's about two hours later and she has apparently peed on the desk, in the upstairs hallway, and in the bathroom next to the box we put in there.
Any thoughts on what else we can do? She usually pees on hard surfaces which is a god send because it's easier to clean, we use an enzyme cleaner (which unfortunately I'm highly allergic to so I can't be in the same room when its used for a good twenty minutes), we praise her up and down when we do catch her using the litter box- we're just stumped what else it could be that's causing her to do this.
Nothing has changed in the environment outside- no strange cats she's triggering on and she doesn't seem to really be doing it as a 'territorial' thing. We're both pretty decent cat people and we're just stumped what else to try or how to help her.
