Hey, I'm new to this forum. My husband and I are trying everything to stop our cats from peeing literally everywhere.
We have two cats, around 13yrs old, one male one female. The female is brave and friendly, the male is, well, a scaredy cat.
We have two daughters age 5&2, they all get along great. We've had the cats since they were kittens.
We recently got a puppy, and understandably we figured the male cat would take some time adjusting to her. At first the dog was locked up in a crate for long enough periods of time that both cats could come downstairs and use the litter and eat. After a couple days we realized that wasn't working, and moved all the cat stuff upstairs. Now the cats have free reign of the upstairs and the dog is solely downstairs. The stairs wind around so they can't see eachother from the bottom or the top. The male cat has not left the upstairs in over 5 months. He seems happy up there. We're in&out of the rooms and bathrooms up there that he gets attention from all of us.
Except he started peeing on the dirty clothes on the rug in my bathroom. We then religiously kept our clothes off the floor. He peed straight on the rug the next day. We now have that door closed all the time. A couple days later I was taking our bags of clothes to donate out of our closet, and a whole pile of pee streamed off all over the carpet and it was most definitely inside the bag. So now our closet door is permanently closed. All our clothes clean or dirty get locked away in the closet now. Tonight, our 5 yr old has this creepy stuffy she loves that always lives on her bed. Reeked like pee. She has some other stuffies in a basket just outside her room, also been peed on. We keep the litter religiously clean. It's right outside our 3 bedrooms and I clean it at least twice a day, basically anytime I pass it.
We are this close to giving the cats up. We can't confirm its only the male but I caught him in my bathroom once in the middle of the night so I know he's for sure doing it. Not sure if the female is but we don't think so.
We don't know what else to do. We're not getting rid of the dog. She's friendly and we give the cats lots of attention. We spend a lot of time upstairs and the girls play with them all the time. But the cats peeing on every single thing up here.. it's draining and making us so mad. We've made their space up here super comfortable and private and this is still happening. What do we do?
We have two cats, around 13yrs old, one male one female. The female is brave and friendly, the male is, well, a scaredy cat.
We have two daughters age 5&2, they all get along great. We've had the cats since they were kittens.
We recently got a puppy, and understandably we figured the male cat would take some time adjusting to her. At first the dog was locked up in a crate for long enough periods of time that both cats could come downstairs and use the litter and eat. After a couple days we realized that wasn't working, and moved all the cat stuff upstairs. Now the cats have free reign of the upstairs and the dog is solely downstairs. The stairs wind around so they can't see eachother from the bottom or the top. The male cat has not left the upstairs in over 5 months. He seems happy up there. We're in&out of the rooms and bathrooms up there that he gets attention from all of us.
Except he started peeing on the dirty clothes on the rug in my bathroom. We then religiously kept our clothes off the floor. He peed straight on the rug the next day. We now have that door closed all the time. A couple days later I was taking our bags of clothes to donate out of our closet, and a whole pile of pee streamed off all over the carpet and it was most definitely inside the bag. So now our closet door is permanently closed. All our clothes clean or dirty get locked away in the closet now. Tonight, our 5 yr old has this creepy stuffy she loves that always lives on her bed. Reeked like pee. She has some other stuffies in a basket just outside her room, also been peed on. We keep the litter religiously clean. It's right outside our 3 bedrooms and I clean it at least twice a day, basically anytime I pass it.
We are this close to giving the cats up. We can't confirm its only the male but I caught him in my bathroom once in the middle of the night so I know he's for sure doing it. Not sure if the female is but we don't think so.
We don't know what else to do. We're not getting rid of the dog. She's friendly and we give the cats lots of attention. We spend a lot of time upstairs and the girls play with them all the time. But the cats peeing on every single thing up here.. it's draining and making us so mad. We've made their space up here super comfortable and private and this is still happening. What do we do?