"...isolate the cat into a quiet room (a spare bathroom is ideal). The bathroom should be big enough to place the food and water at least five feet away from the litter box. Keep the cat housed in this bathroom for 3 days while you retrain your cat to use the box. Each day you will enter to clean and feed. Make your visits quiet without a fuss. On the third day, invite the cat into the entire house. If kitty uses the box appropriately, then all is well. If kitty poops outside the box, place kitty back in the bathroom for one more day. The next day invite kitty back into the house."
Hi, I live in a one-bedroom apartment with one small bathroom. We're having increasing problems with kitten Blueberry peeing on furniture and pooping on the floor. I want to do Hissy's advice (above) on retraining to the litterbox. The problem is, where to do the retraining?
*Flashback* to the Original Problem:
Older cat Valentine starts pooping and peeing in the bathtub. The kitten copies and starts pooping in the tub (not peeing). (The litterbox is up against the tub, the only place it could fit in our bathroom.) I try putting the food and water containers in the tub, but Valentine pees in the tub, and it runs right over the food. I take the litterbox out of the bathroom and keep the bathroom door shut.
Flashback Ends, Back to Present Time:
The bathroom is small, and their isn't 5' of space between the litterbox and where food could be placed. And then there is the original bathtub issue. And
if I use my bedroom as the isolation room the kitten may pee and/or poop on my bed. (He's already peed on my daughter's bed.)
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks
Thanks,
Breindel
Hi, I live in a one-bedroom apartment with one small bathroom. We're having increasing problems with kitten Blueberry peeing on furniture and pooping on the floor. I want to do Hissy's advice (above) on retraining to the litterbox. The problem is, where to do the retraining?
*Flashback* to the Original Problem:
Older cat Valentine starts pooping and peeing in the bathtub. The kitten copies and starts pooping in the tub (not peeing). (The litterbox is up against the tub, the only place it could fit in our bathroom.) I try putting the food and water containers in the tub, but Valentine pees in the tub, and it runs right over the food. I take the litterbox out of the bathroom and keep the bathroom door shut.
Flashback Ends, Back to Present Time:
The bathroom is small, and their isn't 5' of space between the litterbox and where food could be placed. And then there is the original bathtub issue. And
if I use my bedroom as the isolation room the kitten may pee and/or poop on my bed. (He's already peed on my daughter's bed.)
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks
Thanks,
Breindel