how do i stop my cat weeing in the house??

Rubbing the nose is very bad idea and it is working in the opposite. My cat had 2 accidents, but she is OK by now. When cat weeing means that it is something wrong with litter box or the daily schedule. My cat is indoor cat only. Multiple cats tend to mark the territory and my cat was doing this because of my dogs smell. Sometimes not clean litter box can be a problem, sometimes wrong diet or sickness. Cats are usually very clean....Please, please, don't give up.... I never deal with cat staying out during the day or at night, but maybe your cat rather stays home all day long, small cats are under attack of bigger cats and other animals. If your cat is calm, will stop weeing....

I guess cats and dogs are alike.. They will wee anywhere they like to mark their own territory, especially u have 2 cats in the house.. MAybe it's part of their animal nature, and i geuss u have no choice but to try and train it for toilet.. If not, i dun think there's no way u can stop the cat once they have the habit of doing so..

Is the bigger cat a male? Are they both neutered? Also, is it a litter that the little guy likes? If one of the males is un-neutered then they both would have an tendency to mark their territory. I had that problem with the two kittens I got and the male I already had. All three were peeing and spraying everywhere! After the two male kittens got neutered it took a couple of weeks and the spraying quit. Check out the litter box. My lady cat, when I first got her, didn't like the kitty litter I was using and would pee and poop in my Mom's potted plants. The light finally came on and I changed the type kitty litter and her using my Mom's potted plants as a bathroom quit. She loves the soft scoopable litter. Also, one of the little boy cats wants the cat box clean otherwise he won't poop in it. I clean the box once a day so he will use it. But he's sharing it with three other cats so I really don't blame him about not wanting to use a dirty "public" toilet. Rubbing the cats nose in the pee isn't going to do anything except get the cat upset and he will pee to get even. I suggest that if you can find something like "nature's miracle" which is a treatment that will remove the urine odor from the area they have peed or pooped in. It also will tend to repel them from using the area again. It leaves no noticeable smell that is offensive to humans but it repels the cats. Black pepper does nothing but makes their nose irritated and they will still use the area. I did hear that if you move their food to the area that they use for a bathroom it will cure them from using it again. I haven't tried it, so I really can't tell you if it works. But when you find an area of pee, use white vinegar to clean it. Don't use anything with ammonia in it as it is a urine type odor. White vinegar will kill the smell and also kind of work as a repellent. Very often figuring out the why of a cats behavior is frustrating. Your little guy could also have a urinary infection. Also because of the sore mouth he could have been not wanting to use the litter box. Give him some time to recover from the sore mouth and see if the problem persists. I know when I don't feel up to par I don't care about things I normally do...so, when he does use the litter box, praise him and pet him (positive reinforcement) and maybe even give him a little treat that he really loves. That way it will encourage him to use the box like he is supposed to. I hope that the information has helped some. Cats are always a process of elimination when you're trying to figure out why they're doing something.

We had three male cats at one point and they would wee everywhere in the house, my house was starting to stink. We went to see the rspca about it and they told us that it was a territorial thing for males, they are marking their territory they advised us to have them done. They said it would stop them doing it, they even did it for us at a fraction of the cost of taking them to the vets so it was well worth it and it did stop them peeing everywhere.

Our cat, Romeo, would wee on the BED. The vet put him on medication saying it is stress and now he might have 3 or 4 accidents per year. First you must spray something that masks the urine smell so your cat won't go there again. Romeo takes one pill a day. It is called Amitriptyline 10 mg. We just deal with his accidents by protecting our beds with waterproof pads over the mattress. Just moving furniture to a different position could stress him out. Some cats are more sensitive than others. We rescued him and I am sure he was abused. We want to protect and love him. We know he cannot help what he does, but we will do anything to keep him safe. His life is more important than a mattress. Try the medication and the Urine Out spray. We tried the holistic approach, but it did not work with him. Good Luck and take care of your little kitty. Twilight

Hi, Not sure if you have sorted this problem. But I have as 2 month old kitten and all of a sudden she started to wee on my bed, after washing everything about five times in one week I went to my local pet shop and got a formula which was called house proud, which you put a couple of drops in the kitty litter and it draws them back to it to retrain them into the litter box, this works a treat and I have had no more accidents from her. This was in New Zealand but I'm sure you that you would have a similar product that you could purchase.

In appropriate urination can be a sign of illness (I know, just what you don't want to hear.) It could also be a protest against the box being dirty or maybe the big cat is chasing him from the box. It could also be too public a place for him, some cats don't like to be watched. Try putting a box in the places he likes to go and then if he is good about going there, slowly move it to a place you want him to go - and close off the places you don't want him going. Is he fixed, that can also cause the problem.

there's a number of reasons he could be doing that-everything for something making him upset to plain not liking the litter.or he could have a urinary infection. i used to have a cat with chronic inoperable colitis,we had to give him used t-shirts/cloth instead of litter,it inflamed his problem.then he went right into the box. but try orange scented pomades instead of pepper-cats usually hate citrus smell.

It won't help to rub his nose in it; that's just cruel. You need to thoroughly clean where he weed with an enzyme cleaner like Natures Miracle. I don't know what's available where you are. He can smell it even if you can't. He may have a urinary tract infection; if he does, he will need a vet trip and is telling you something is wrong with him. After all, he can't talk. You may need to get Feliway, an pheromone dispenser that makes him feel as if everything is OK. Cats wee to mark territory. Is he having problems with your other cat? Can he have his own litter box somewhere else? Good luck with this; it is indeed a big problem.

I can understand this post . My brother last summer found a wild cat , and dropped him off at my fams and well the cat was not littered trained at all . Well, anyway my parents could not take him anymore and my bro isnt moving until after the new year , so they dropped it off here , and well i am trying to just deal and it is hard as hell . He will not use the litter box at all , and none of my other cats have ever had this prob . He just goes where ever he wants , and then my other cats get confused . Anyway , we have a puppy now and have those puppy pads , and guess what the cat goes on that and most of the time . The only other place is he wil go is in the kitchen in a corner . I now have this no mark spray for cats and spray it all over and it helps . so maybe try a puppy training pad , because there are smells in there that draws the animal there , and after one week try putting in the litter box , and have might have better luck than me .

My female cat has started pooping on the carpet. I have sprayed and scrubbed to disguise the scent but she finds a new spot. I have a male cat who taunts her all of the time. I think sometimes when she goes to the liter box, Jake is lurking around and she goes somewhere else. My husband has also threatened to get rid of her, but that is just talk. My husband tries to keep the liter box clean, because she is a prissy little furry thing. I really do not know how to stop your cat from doing her thing on the floor, I am still figuring out how I am going to stop my cat from using the out house instead of using the proper facilities.

I had experienced this in the past with a female cat I had a few years ago, but the first thing I would sagest is that you get your cat spade or neutered if you haven't already, because that usually stops the weeing as you say, but if you have already had him or her fixed, then here's the next thing I would recommend, this is what a vet told me to do, she said for me to place the litter box in a place were the cat can easily see it, and make sure its clean and dry then watch your cats behavior closely most cats tend to get a little fussy when they have to go so if you happen to notice any fussy behavior just immediately place the cat in the litter box, and repeat this until he or she go's wee wee in the litter box, do that every time the cat has to go, then eventually your cat should get the picture and stop weeing in the house it worked for my cat, and hopefully it will work for yours. good luck.

Try cleaning it up as soon as you notice it and then put the litter box in the spot that he weed in. Use something like "Urine be gone" or "Febreeze" to make sure you get all the smell out. Vinegar may also work. Sometimess if they can't smell it they won't go there again. If you catch him in the act, pick him up and put him in the litter box. Try not cleaning the litter box for a few days, maybe if he smells it in the box, he'll go there instead. I'd also ask the vet for some tricks. Good luck to you.

I've grown up with my parents having had cats since before I was born. I've moved out now and have a family of my own but when I was living there, any time we got a new cat, it did take a while to 'train' them to use either a litter tray ro to go outside. Patience and attention are needed to start with, as cat don't necessarily understand what a litter tray is unless they've been made to use it on a regular basis. I find this normally means keeping an eye of them, and when they're about to go, pick them up and put them in the litter tray. Do this enough times and hopefully they'll pick it up before long. Similarly, do the same with going outside, perhaps separating the times of day you direct them to either outside or the litter tray. I know my folks spent a long time, many a year with various cats trying to get them to learn to pee in the right places, and sometimes it's really frustrating. I'll be honest with you, it sometimes still happens that they come home to find one of the cats has decided it would be a good idea to pee on the floor, randomly and with no reason when there is a perfectly good litter tray or a cat flap within use. Either way, patience and love, and appreciation that gthey don't do it out of spite, more out of feline ignorance, are all necessary. I hope they stop soon.!!!

my cat did worse when she was younger she pooh in the living room, bathroom, wherever she wanted I was scared hubby would be mad so I kept it a secret but of course he found out and was mad I said he should teach her because she won't listen to me so everytime she pooh outside her litter bin hubby will lift her up and put her nose down to her pooh then he will let her go he didn't hurt the cat or feed her the pooh, but after a while she behaves

Is he fix if not that why he's doing it . cd

Awww Anne18 you poor thing! Like you don't have enough to do with Christmas and all without having to deal with a cat weeing all over the place. In my experience it is about them marking territory and all that but normally when they have just arrived into new surroundings and there are new animals in the house. Apart from pepper I don't know of anything else. I have never known rubbing their nose in it to be effective, only with dogs. I hope you find a solution soon though!! The mixture of pepper and wee certainly doesn't sound very appealing!

It'd be worth looking at where the litter trays are and whether one cat is showing dominance by leaving presents in both. Might be worth moving one to another spot, preferably somewhere a bit hidden. If big cat is doing the passive-aggressive thing, little cat might not feel safe using the litter, so putting one somewhere else makes it difficult for big cat to monitor both. As someone else said, rubbing their nose in their wee does nothing at all except make the cat feel bad. It's worth cleaning the wee area (and by that I mean scrubbing thoroughly). Is little cat nervous to go outside? Have things moved in the house recently? How long has he been in the house with you? Does he have lots of interesting things to do, places to hide? Can he get up somewhere fairly high (they love that)? Has his food changed recently? Does he have a food bowl separate from big cat, in another place (cf. litter)? If you're really interested in some of the cat psychology stuff, I'd suggest a visit to the library. I read 'Cat Confidential' a while back when our puss was nervous and anxious - it has examples, thoughts and basic info that are all very helpful.