Hi-
I've got a female DSH who's about 4 years old and she's always had this problem. She stands in the litter box, and hangs her backside out of the box and pees outside the box. It's always been a large litter box.
To deal with this, we bought a roof to the litter box, figuring that will help - and it definitely does to some extent - the problem now is that she pees high up on the back wall of the hood (almost to the ceiling of it is wet!) and in spite of the hood, urine seeps between the hood and the edge of the box and gets on the outside of the litter box.
The damage control measure has been to put a large plastic sheet with newspaper outside the box to absorb this drippage. But this is still a pretty undesirable behavior (albeit, not as bad, I'm sure, as a cat just peeing everywhere in the house!).
Is there any way that you can think of for dealing with this? She's a very quirky cat, I might add. FYI, we use Feline Pine style litter.
Another aside, for awhile she had an outside-the-box issue. Our litter box was in the laundry room, and there was a floor drain near the litter box. She started peeing down the drain instead of in the box. Covering the drain with large objects alleviated that matter. But she seems to have some issue with the box. I hesitate to change litter on her because that could lead to untold larger problems. But maybe that would be a solution?
Thanks for your suggestions!
I've got a female DSH who's about 4 years old and she's always had this problem. She stands in the litter box, and hangs her backside out of the box and pees outside the box. It's always been a large litter box.
To deal with this, we bought a roof to the litter box, figuring that will help - and it definitely does to some extent - the problem now is that she pees high up on the back wall of the hood (almost to the ceiling of it is wet!) and in spite of the hood, urine seeps between the hood and the edge of the box and gets on the outside of the litter box.
The damage control measure has been to put a large plastic sheet with newspaper outside the box to absorb this drippage. But this is still a pretty undesirable behavior (albeit, not as bad, I'm sure, as a cat just peeing everywhere in the house!).
Is there any way that you can think of for dealing with this? She's a very quirky cat, I might add. FYI, we use Feline Pine style litter.
Another aside, for awhile she had an outside-the-box issue. Our litter box was in the laundry room, and there was a floor drain near the litter box. She started peeing down the drain instead of in the box. Covering the drain with large objects alleviated that matter. But she seems to have some issue with the box. I hesitate to change litter on her because that could lead to untold larger problems. But maybe that would be a solution?
Thanks for your suggestions!