Cat peeing on the side of my house

I had the most beautiful purebred white hymnalian cat? but under no circumstances would he use a litter box! He became an outdoor cat. We do live in the country and cats outside are just fine. I have 2 in the house (3 because I have my granddaughters kitten that she found as a stray but its going out soon!) but they are well behaved cats. Guess you know where they will be if they weren't! I really can't believe how cruel everyone has been to you on here! You have a home outside for the cats and its fine and your making sure they are fed. The peeing in the house is a serious health issue too. Not only in breathing in the fumes, but in having the kids play with their toys! I think you have done the right thing. I have a gorgeous stray that I had fixed but he decided he didn't want to be a good house cat and I put him out this fall but when I found him someone had dropped him off at my daughters and he had his nails trimmed very short, we thought he was declawed at first! He was starving. That is animal abuse to abandon that way. What you have done is not. My best friends neighbor called me a couple weeks ago, she had found 2 stray cats and wanted to know if I would take them. She brought them over. They are in the barn, ones friendly, and I feed them 2x's a day. Best of luck to you. I think you have done the right thing.

My grandmother had two hymalian cats. They were the sweetest cats. They wound up with tumors and had to be put down it was a sad day for everyone. She was a huge cat lover. I love the cats but when it comes down to it they are cats and my kids are more important. Having the cats pee on my daughters tent that she liked to sleep in and peeing on her clothes and toys and blankets. I just couldnt deal with it anymore. I had put up with it for years. The cat is fine living outside. I wish it didnt have a peeing problem because then it could have continued to live inside. In the summer it was always sneaking outside it wanted to be out there.

The one cat that I originally put outside after years of cleaning up urine all over the house was a male. He was fixed as a kitten. He got a blockage and after that continued to pee on everything. The other cat that just peed on the side of my house is a girl who was also neutered when she was a kitten. She never peed around the house this was just an issue because of the snow. I thank you for being kind and understanding instead of telling me what a horrible person I am like most of the others.

Well we have three cats. One is a female that lives inside then there is a male and female that lives outside. The litter box that we have for the inside cat is kind of like a cat house. It has a big lid to it so they cant poop outside the litter box. The main reason we bought it though was because when the cats would bury their poop they would kick the cat litter all over the floor.

Once the snow goes away I'm sure she will stop peeing on the side of my house. Actually just her ability to do that is pretty amazing because the lid isnt on so she has to balance very carefully on the thin edge of the garbage can. Its almost like walking on a stiff tightrope. We dont an SPCA around here only the pound. The pound also makes you pay $50 to drop off a cat and then they put it to sleep if its not like the perfect animal. Neither of my cats would be adopted out.

Oops, I kept calling her a 'he'. That's too bad about no SPCA. We have a pound nearby too, but I always think of pounds as doggy/kitty jails. That's where they go when animal control rounds them up, not where people willingly take them. I actually adopted my cats from the SPCA. It is amazing how acrobatic cats can get. I have a cat who bops right to the litterbox and gets in and does her thing, but sometimes, and I don't know how she aims, but she shoots her poop right over the edge of the box to the outside! AND she will proceed to paw the side of the box like she's going to bury it! If I didn't have to clean it up, I'd probably think it was funny.

It was just a one time thing. We had a huge snow storm and when I woke up the snow was as tall as the porch. I dont blame the cat for peeing there. I asked friends and family to take it. I offered it to everyone no one wanted it. There arent any no kill shelters around here so it living outside was what I chose. Today it pooped on the side of my driveway oh well when its gotta go its gotta go lol.

your right, definitely there maybe someone would appreciate this cat than letting it outside in the snow. they also deserve to be loved & take care

The new couch was $700 and the cat already clawed a bunch of spots on it. That is what cats do I know I felt horrible but after years of putting up with this and having the house destroyed and not having enough money to fix it up now I was fed up with the cat that I never wanted in the first place. My ex I kicked out and he wouldnt take his cat. I have had various different cat scratching posts and my cats never used it. I still have one and its never touched it just gathers dust.

Then you should have found it a good home with owners who would take good care of it. I've had cats that scratched and cats that sprayed and I loved the cats too much to do much about it aside from buying scratching posts and urine smell remover spray, which worked a little bit. Neutering a male cat does not always stop the spraying, because mine had been fixed but still sprayed. It's part of owning a cat. You cannot get mad at the cat for being who it is, it doesn't know any better. My cats are like my children. They might make messes and destroy things.. but they're a part of this family and I just have to deal with it sometimes. I wouldn't throw my kids outside for drawing on the walls or ripping the sofa, so I wouldn't do that to my cats either.

I tried. I offered the cat to many people no one wanted it. Years back I wrote a thing on mylot about how the one cat kept peeing all over the house. Everyone told me to love it and keep it and I continued to let it live in the house for another year or two but after it peeing on my childrens toys and everything else I was sick and tired ot it. I know there are far better pet owners out there such as yourself. To me its just a pet not a family member. I did used to view the animals as you did which is why I kept it for so many years and dealt with issues but I just couldnt do it anymore. The male cat never sprayed until after the blockage. Before that it was the perfect cat.

The one cat that has a urine problem is such a nice cat but no one wants a cat that will pee all over its house. Its been fixed since it was a kitten it started peeing after a blockage it had. I put up with it for years I had had it with cleaning up after the cat. It was destroying my house. I had to rip out our dining room carpet because it smelled. Now I have a ugly floor from the 40s that I cant afford to fix up. The other cat isnt mine its my exes and he wont take it or take it to the pound. I dont feel responsible for that cat I never wanted it and he refused to take it when he moved out. As far as I'm concerned at least I put out food for it and made a place for it to sleep on our porch. If anyone wants it they are welcome to it I couldnt care less.

You have negated every suggestion that has been offered here. Why in the world did you start the discussion in the first place?

It was a discussion. Everyone here has said that I should keep the cat or find a home for it. Finding a home for it isnt going to work and keeping the cat in the house I am not going to deal with unless my ex takes it and has it declawed. I've begged him to take his cat but he wont. I didnt write the discussion asking for advice. I'm sure plenty of people dislike me after reading my discussion but oh well. Someone did come up with a good idea though to put cat litter in a spot for the cat to use since its used to going in a litter box it probably has no idea where to go to the bathroom in 2 feet of snow. I cleared off the sidewalk so it can at least walk down the sidewalk and driveway now instead of being stuck on the porch. Sometime perhaps someone will come along and understand what I'm going through with the cat and write about their experience. Thats what I was hoping for. But so far I've had the opposite and thats ok as well. It just doesnt mean that I have to agree to do as they have said and it doesnt make either of our opinions wrong.

Oh man that would be awful. My dining room carpet got like that to and I had to tear the whole thing out this past summer because it smelled and was gross. It was a lot of work to tear that old carpet out by myself. The floor underneath is covered in this hideous old worn out linoelum. It looks so bad but at least it does not smell. I cant afford to do anything with it so I have to put up with my house looking awful.

The holes that they have dug go right through to the concrete slab underneath. We are getting quotes at the moment to replace the carpet, but we do not want to spend too much as we are selling our house anyway.

Because no one wants a cat that will claw up their furniture and scratch their kids. We have tons of stray cats in the neighborhood. I feed the cats thats all that I care to do. Taking them to the pound they will just put the cats to sleep at least outside they have a chance to live. The other cat pees on everything. It was fixed long before the problems started. It got a blockage and started peeing on things. After spending around $500 to have it unblocked it continued to pee on everything. It would pee on our clothes it would pee on the tub and shower curtain. It would pee on the floors and kids toys. I'd had enough of it and put it outside so it can live out there. If I took it to the pound it would be put to sleep or brought right back as soon as it started peeing all over someones house. I put up with this for about 5 years. I was done. The cat likes being outside in the summer. In the winter I feel bad for it so I have a little house out there for it with blankets. Its on my porch facing the house so the wind wont go into it.

I dont know about that honestly lol. The cats urine smells so bad when on things. As soon as I stepped outside I noticed it. My sister came over and said the same thing how bad my porch smelled like cat pee. I told her why. Right after that I went out with some vinegar and dumped it on the side of the house. Hopefully the cat will find somewhere better to pee from now on lol.

thanks junrapmian, its good to know like you who have their life with cats even when its sometimes really stinks but the good things they bought in our lives sometimes it is worth the effort in cleaning their pees.

I cant afford to spend any more money on the animals then I have to. When my ex was here we had more money. For the last year my kids and I lived off $400 a month cash. We got our food paid for and help with the bills but still my bills alone are close to $300 a month so that leaves little left over if the van needs repairs or my kids need clothes etc. Its more important for me to use the money on my kids then the cats. I feed them thats all I can afford to do getting them declawyed is more then I can afford to spend. I begged my ex to take the cat but he wont. I asked him again today to take his cat but he wont because it will claw his apartment up. I'm not mad the cat peed out there. I dont want it to because lol it stinks but oh well I doused it with some vinegar and I'm sure once the snow goes away she will find some grass somewhere to go the bathroom in. In this case the cat just didnt want to be in snow over her head to go to the bathroom I dont blame her I'd be scared and wouldnt do it either. The cats been living out there since summer. The cats used to run outside if we left it open for a second so in the summer they always wanted to go out now obviously they want to come back in and I wont let them.

LOL well the way their urine smells isnt any reason to hate them just like I dont hate cows just because of how they smell but everyone likes and dislikes differnet things so I'm not going to give you a hard time about it. Their urine really is awful smelling though.

saying i hate cats is just an expression lol... my sis in law feed about 30 stary cats and i go nuts seeing her clean the backyards. she spends quite a lot of time to do that, but no complain.

Oh my gosh lol I can only imagine how much work it would be to clean up the mess that 30 cats would make. I'm sure they each choose a different spot to go to the bathroom. I couldnt allow my kids to play in the yard if there was that much cat poop around ick. Eww can you imagine the smell lol. I wonder what she does with all the poop if she has to bag it up and throw it in a garbage. The poor garbage men lol.

Well the male cat that lives outside actually isnt the one peeing on the house which is what you would think. It is actually my female cat. They were both fixed as kittens. My cat just didnt want to go out in two feet of snow so she stood on the edge of the garbage can to pee on the house lol. You would tihnk she would have just peed somewhere on the porch. If anyone wanted either of these cats they would be more then welcome to take them but no one wants them.