How do I get my pets to stop peeing on the floor and how do I get rid of the smell?
- Wednesday Dec 2,2009 04:15 PM
- By diddy
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I have two cats, one who is litter trained, and the other who is but he refuses to use the litter box. He used to use it, but he no longer does. How do I get him to use the litter box instead of the floor and how do I get rid of the smell? I’ve tried cleaning the carpet, using an air freshener, and burning candles, the smell is still there. At least, I can smell it. What do I do?
Air Freshener, Burning Candles, Cats, Cleaning Carpet, Litter Box, Peeing, Pets
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Are your cats neutered/spayed? If not, get it done a.s.a.p. It tones down any negative behaviors. Plus, if they aren’t, they’ll mark your furniture, carpet, anything they can because they’re territorial animals. And marking pee smells 100 times more rank than their regular pee because its stronger and more concentrated.
You’re going to have to retrain your cat if you want to keep it as an indoor cat. Which means keeping the cat in a carrier with its food and water for 4 hrs, taking it out and straight to the box, praising it if it uses it, then putting it straight back into the carrier. Try this for 3 days. If 3 days isn’t long enough, keep trying for a few more days. I know it sounds mean but really it isn’t, it’s how puppies are trained. Animals will not pee or poop in their sleep area (or near their food) and carriers aren’t big enough to be anything more than that.
As for getting rid of the odor in your carpet, the only REAL remedy is replacing the carpet and pad entirely to remove all odor. I have yet to find a cleaner out there that gets rid of pet pee odor 100%. Many claim to but end up only being a waste of money.
If your cat still refuses to cooperate as far as box training goes, consider making it an outdoor pet. If you want to salvage your furniture and carpet and not smell and feel like you live in a barn, you’ll have no choice.
Good luck!!
Getting of the smell is a wicked idea
Make sure all cats are spayed and neutered.
Was he taken to the vet to check for a bladder infecion?
If it’s not a health issue causing this, then it’s probably due to stress. Meds like Prozac can help. Ask your vet.
Ok, this may be a silly question to you but I need to check… do you have two separate litter boxes? Are the litter boxes kept clean? A household with two cats, needs two litter boxes. And cats will not use dirty litter.
Have you had his health checked out?
A cat that has or had in the past a bladder problem may have urinated somewhere inappropriate - the carpet - and learned to like it. Then doesn’t want to go back to litter.
Your cat may have one of the following:
Substrate preference - prefering a certain substrate instead of his litter. - the carpet.
One thing to try: place a layer of tin foil on the area where he pees.
Cats hate the sound that tin foil makes when they pee on it!
Substrate aversion - Avoid a certain substrate.
Try different types of litter. Maybe he doesn’t like the litter you use any more?
You could try placing a piece of carpet in the box and see if he goes. He he gets using it, gradually introduce small amounts of litter… then eventually remove the carpet.
Location preference - prefers doing it in those areas.
Try placing the litter box in the areas he usually goes- or as close as possible, and if he gets using it, then move it 5cm each day to the desired location.
Location aversion - he could be avoiding his litter box because a traumatic experience happened while he was doing her business and he does not feel comfortable doing it there again.
Sometimes other pets in the household terrorise the others, and your cat may have been doing his business, then the other one scared him.. and he’s too scared to go back there.
Is the litter box in a noisy area? Anything there that would scare the cat?
Solution - move the litter box to a different area.
Lastly, you could try to rehousetrain your cat - lock him in a room with a food bowl, litter tray and bed. Keep him in there for a week. Don’t forget about him though! give him periods of attention each day!! After a week, let him roam more of the house… and more until he has full reign and is hopefully still using his litter box.
Feel free to contact me if you need any more help regarding this.
Good luck!!
Oh, about the carpet.. baking powder might help. Sprinkle it in the carpet, let it soak up the smell and vacuum.. If that doesn’t help, the other solution may have to be professional cleaning =/
First, make sure both are neutered. Then, you will need three litter boxes, and they really like the big storage boxes for their litter (always one more than the number of cats). If the cats are urinating in the corners or edges, get some plastic such as runner material or other similar material, and make little corner protectors,and run along the edges as necessary. Cats don’t like to urinate on hard surfaces. Take the cat who is urinating out of the litter box, to the vet and have him checked for a bladder infection. Ask for antibiotics, even it there are not signs of an infection, since they sometimes have one, without showing signs. Getting the smell out of the carpet, is anther story. You can try using a carpet cleaner and put some water, and a small amount of bleach and spick and span it it. MAKE SURE to check a spot where you can’t see it, to be sure it won’t discolor the carpeting, and allow to set overnight. This might help the odor, but not sure. If that doesn’t work, you might check to see if you have any remnants left over from your carpeting. Replace the soiled areas, and then cover with the plastic corner pieces, or as far around the edges as necessary. Tape to the wall. You could even try using some sort of inexpensive floor tiles that you might find to be decorative, around the edges to discourage further problems. Anything is better than kitties peeing on the carpeting
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