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I have posted about this in the past and have worked on things but I need more advice. First I'll lay out the issues and then address what we've done to help fix it.
I have two cats, Doyle and Finn, they are both around a year and a half old (rescue cats so we aren't sure exactly)
Doyle has an issue that he poops in the house, generally in the same spots. He doesn't do it a ton, but often enough for it to be a concern. He does use the litterbox often and if I catch him while he's about to go outside of it and say no he runs down to the litterbox room and does it there.
Finn, pees in the house. Laundry baskets (we work on not leaving laundry out...although we should have to). Furniture etc. He has now started spraying in rooms. Those smells permeate the house. Doyle has since followed suit. All are generally in the same locations (more on that in a moment).
We moved into this house late December. There is obviously an adjustement period for all animals to get used to their new surroundings...but now it is really getting out of control. We want to replace the carpets on our first floor with hardwood and replace the carpets in the upstairs but are extremely wary because we don't want new things to be marked; that smell is very hard to get rid of. I also don't really like to pick up poop nearly every day.
They claw everything they can even though we have a ton of scratching items, which they do use.
One chews cables constantly. We've sprayed repellent on them, used a cayenne solution, pretty much everything we've read about. It still happens. My wife and I are both in IT and have a lot of equipment.
I've had cats all my life, I love and take care of them but nothing has been like this.
Here are the things we've done and I look for advice beyond this:
They have a very private space for their litter box and a cat door that they use to get in, that isn't a problem.
The litter box is very large and is changed daily. We've tried multiple boxes throughout the house but not only did it not work I kind of also have a problem with bathrooms for guests smelling like used litter boxes.
We've changed litter several times. The one we have most recently seems to help more than the others.
We clean and spray the spots that they go on the floor, immediately, in both in odor removal as well as repellent spray.
After we clean a spot and let everything dry we put down tin foil to teach them not to go there. It works but only when we have it down...after 6 months I don't want my entire house covered in tin foil.
We are in a house that smells like cat, especially on humid days. We have to keep all doors in our upstairs closed when we aren't around. I can't control what happens at night and would never put them in a crate while we sleep. When we see things about to happen we do what we can to prevent them and it works. I am woken up almost every night by the sound of a cat about to get in trouble, which means that I don't sleep a lot (plus Doyle likes to wake me up at 4:30am every morning, awesome).
I love these cats but this is getting ridiculous and I don't know what to do. We have a renovation house but are held hostage by animals that we can't reason with.
Oh, we've also taken them to the vet to see if there was a medical issue causing this but they are in good health
Any advice would be a great help.
I have two cats, Doyle and Finn, they are both around a year and a half old (rescue cats so we aren't sure exactly)
Doyle has an issue that he poops in the house, generally in the same spots. He doesn't do it a ton, but often enough for it to be a concern. He does use the litterbox often and if I catch him while he's about to go outside of it and say no he runs down to the litterbox room and does it there.
Finn, pees in the house. Laundry baskets (we work on not leaving laundry out...although we should have to). Furniture etc. He has now started spraying in rooms. Those smells permeate the house. Doyle has since followed suit. All are generally in the same locations (more on that in a moment).
We moved into this house late December. There is obviously an adjustement period for all animals to get used to their new surroundings...but now it is really getting out of control. We want to replace the carpets on our first floor with hardwood and replace the carpets in the upstairs but are extremely wary because we don't want new things to be marked; that smell is very hard to get rid of. I also don't really like to pick up poop nearly every day.
They claw everything they can even though we have a ton of scratching items, which they do use.
One chews cables constantly. We've sprayed repellent on them, used a cayenne solution, pretty much everything we've read about. It still happens. My wife and I are both in IT and have a lot of equipment.
I've had cats all my life, I love and take care of them but nothing has been like this.
Here are the things we've done and I look for advice beyond this:
They have a very private space for their litter box and a cat door that they use to get in, that isn't a problem.
The litter box is very large and is changed daily. We've tried multiple boxes throughout the house but not only did it not work I kind of also have a problem with bathrooms for guests smelling like used litter boxes.
We've changed litter several times. The one we have most recently seems to help more than the others.
We clean and spray the spots that they go on the floor, immediately, in both in odor removal as well as repellent spray.
After we clean a spot and let everything dry we put down tin foil to teach them not to go there. It works but only when we have it down...after 6 months I don't want my entire house covered in tin foil.
We are in a house that smells like cat, especially on humid days. We have to keep all doors in our upstairs closed when we aren't around. I can't control what happens at night and would never put them in a crate while we sleep. When we see things about to happen we do what we can to prevent them and it works. I am woken up almost every night by the sound of a cat about to get in trouble, which means that I don't sleep a lot (plus Doyle likes to wake me up at 4:30am every morning, awesome).
I love these cats but this is getting ridiculous and I don't know what to do. We have a renovation house but are held hostage by animals that we can't reason with.
Oh, we've also taken them to the vet to see if there was a medical issue causing this but they are in good health
Any advice would be a great help.