Ok...As most of you know, I took Tiki to the Vet on Saturday for a possible bladder infection and sure enough she has a mild infection. My Vet said that most (95%) of her inappropriate peeing is from a behavioral problem. She told me that I have to take her back to Kindergarten and start from scratch. She said that I need to keep her shut inside a room for at least 2 weeks. During the first 5 days, I go in the room to play with her but she is not allowed out. After the first 5 days, I take her out of the room for a few minutes each day and increasing the time everyday. If she pees on something that she shouldn't while she is out of her room, we start all over again. Some how this is supposed to teach her to use her litter box??? The only problem I have is I don't have a room for her to be locked in. My house has 3 bedrooms (all which have beds and people actually sleeping in them), 1 extremely tiny bathroom, living/dining room, kitchen and a full basement that doesn't have any doors on the rooms. There is no way I can keep her in one of the bedrooms because she will pee on the beds, the bathroom is so small that I don't have room for her food, water & litter box...and the living/dining room & the kitchen do not have doors on these rooms. So....Where in the world to I put her? I thought about my walk in closet, but there is no heat in there and it gets awfully darn cold in there & the other closets are full of junk or are too small. My only thought is to build some kind of room inside of a room. My bedroom is the loft (which is as big as our entire house) and is all one big room. I thought I could take some plywood and build a mini room inside my bedroom. Do you think this might work? I don't want to build anything massive or real costly since it's just a temperary thing. Does anyone else have any ideas what I could do? It's got to be tall enough so she won't jump out, but yet roomy enough so she isn't crammed in there. A co-work told me to get a couple of refrigerator boxes and make a room out of that, but I just don't think it'll be sturdy enough. I know she's gonna be one mad little kitty when I start this! My Vet said that if this doesn't work, I may have to put her on an anti-depressant and I really don't want to medicate my cat if I can help it. Any suggestions would be very helpful!
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