HELP! I was almost at my wit's end, and this latest incident with my older cat really puts me there. She's heading towards 16 years old; I just took her to the vet two weeks ago, where he ran blood tests, etc., and she got pretty much a clean bill of health -- other than the fact that she has neurological problems that he thinks would be too costly to deal with at her age. The main issue she has is that she has "forgotten" how to use her litter boxes. I can't remember the last time that she's peed in one of them, although she frequently does poop in them. Okay, so I put down pee pee pads in the areas where I had seen her peeing, and she started using those. Fine. Last night she decided she wanted to start spending her time in my bedroom, which is fine, too. There's a litter box right next door in the bathroom, but rather than going in there to use the box, she peed on my bed. I pulled off all the sheets and washed everything, and when I returned this afternoon from running errands, she had peed on the mattress cover. I sleep in that bed every night, and I really don't want to wake up to pee on the covers and sheets, but Budjr (my cat) is beginning to make the bed her litter box. And I don't have a clue as to what to do. Does anyone know of something I could use to keep Budjr from peeing on the bed, to make it less "attractive" to her? Warren Eckstein says if you put some of their food near the area where they're peeing, they won't pee there, but I can't cover my bed with food. If I put some food in a couple of spots, she'll just move to another area of the bed -- probably one of the pillows will be next -- and pee there.
If anyone has any thoughts or advice, I would love to hear them. Thank you!
If anyone has any thoughts or advice, I would love to hear them. Thank you!