A freind of mine has 2 cats and has recently moved to a new house. She used to live in a flat and the cats were not used to going outside or meeting other cats. Since moving to her new house one of the cats has started to pee in the dining room (same place each time) She has tried repeatedly telling the cat off but it keeps doing it. The other cat doesnt do it - both cats are female (sisters).

Anyone know why it is doing it or what can be done to stop it? vet was very useless and told her it was territorial, but that doesnt help with the stains on the soggy carpet!!

Any help I could pass on would be appreciated.

Thanks

Some useful cat info here....

http://www.fanciers.com/cat-faqs/

Nomme

Rachel,

Your friend should ask the vets to check out the weeing cat to ensure there is no UTI infection or other illness causing the behaviour.

As toileting problems in cats are usually stress related, your friend should not punish or shout at her cat, as this will increase the problem.

The carpet should be cleaned with biological washing powder mixed with water, then dabbed with surgical spirits and left to dry.

The stain needs to be removed completely, as any trace would entice the cat back to wee again on the same spot.

Cats that are moved to a new house should be slowly introduced to the new house and kept inside (with a locked at flap) for a minimum of 4 weeks.
http://www.piftails.com/introducingnewcat.html

Some cats can literally be thrown outside with no problems dealing with the outside world but other cats are more sensitive and need more help.

Here is some advice on introducing cats to the outside world but I would not let the cats outside until the toileting problem is resolved.
http://www.lostmycat.com/introcatoutside.html

There are so many other issues like:-

: How she is cleaning the mess
: Where the litter tray are ?
: What are the trays filled with ?

and many more questions.

If your friend wants specific advice to help her situation, I need more details. If she wants to email me at Jenny@piftails.com or post on my cat forum. http://www.piftails.com/forum/upload/index.php?

I will do my best to help, I am training to be a cat behaviourist hopefully I can help find a solution and as I am just training my advice is free.

Thanks for the helpful hints. I have passed the info onto my mate, so hopefully she won't keep finding little puddle presents round the house!

Cheers

My cat sufferd the same problems when we had a new baby, she started to get bladder infections due to stress and peed in odd places.
In the end we had to find her a new home but the vet had lots of calming supplements and sprays you can try

Originally posted by rachel_finch
A freind of mine has 2 cats and has recently moved to a new house. She used to live in a flat and the cats were not used to going outside or meeting other cats. Since moving to her new house one of the cats has started to pee in the dining room (same place each time) She has tried repeatedly telling the cat off but it keeps doing it. The other cat doesnt do it - both cats are female (sisters).

Anyone know why it is doing it or what can be done to stop it? vet was very useless and told her it was territorial, but that doesnt help with the stains on the soggy carpet!!

Any help I could pass on would be appreciated.

Thanks

When I first got my two rascals one of them used to pee in the living room (same spot) all the time. What I did was temporarily put a second litter tray there, which thankfully he used. Once that was done I steadily moved the litter tray a little each day to where I actually wanted him to go, and at the same time I put some tin foil down on the floor where he used to pee (cats HATE standing on tin foil!). He got the message and within a couple of weeks there was no problem. The earlier poster is right in that shouting at the cat will only make the problem worse. Picking mine up and physically placing him in the litter tray after he'd peed seemed to get the message across too. Is the current litter tray in a sufficiently 'private' place? Cats can be very prim and proper sometimes.

I'm moving house this weekend - hope mine settle in to the new place with no problems!

Another good idea is to put a bowl of dried food down on the spot. Cats won't pee where they eat. Worked a treat when our little fella stopped using his litter tray.

try cat litter in the kitchen where you do the food this is very hygenic better still get rid of the cats and do us all a favour