My cat all the sudden started peeing on the rug and not in the litter box? What can be done?
She may have a urinary tract infection or a blocked urethra, which can be painful. She may be associating the pain with the litter box, so she avoids it. Diabetes will make a cat urinate more often; if that's the case then she just may not be making it to the litter box on time.
Stress can make cats tend to spray urine; it's not like regular urine, but it's a territorial thing. Do you have any new pets or people in the home, have you moved recently, any big changes in her environment? I assume you are keeping the litter box clean enough, but have you moved it to a new location?
She may not like the spot you chose. I'd suggest you have her examined by a vet to rule out any medical conditions. She may have to be re-trained to use her litter box once the problem is cleared up.
You may have to confine her to a cage until the problem is solved and she is litter trained again, but she may take to her litter box again when she's well (if she is indeed ill). Be sure that when you clean up her accidents that you don't use a product that contains ammonia. Urine contains ammonia and the traces left by the cleaner will attract her back to the same spot.
Use a pet-odor-removing product instead, or diluted vinegar.
This might be a factor. Jackson talks about what you didn’t see on the most recent episode of My Cat From Hell, when he worked with Mufasa (a female Norwegian Forest Cat) and her guardians Rudy and Andrea. So, this is something that can be fairly obvious to me and not obvious to the people I work with.
Which is: certain litter boxes themselves can sometimes be really inconvenient and really uncomfortable for a cat. In Rudy & Andrea’s apartment, there was actually a very small litter box tucked into a corner, with a liner in it. And Mufasa was peeing almost in the pockets of the liner.
But getting the perimeters around it, it indicates sort of a dance around litter that is indicating discomfort. Not just physical discomfort, but spacial discomfort, that “I don’t fit here” feeling. And Mufasa’s a big cat.
Norwegian Forest Cats are big and they’re fluffy. It’s why we always remove the lids of litter boxes with these fluffy cats. When they walk into the litter box, all that fur can create a static charge.
They hit the liner or lid and they get zapped. If you get a zap, why would you go back there?
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