Post by en0ch on Aug 18, 2012 11:30:42 GMT 7
Hi folks,
Found this forum through a Google search, due to the problem we're having here. Hoping someone can help - pretty tough one, I suspect. Here goes …
We're a 2-cat household of many years' standing, through a succession of cats, with the overlapping lifetimes. Current cats are Pudding (DSH, female, neutered, 3 or 4 yo) and Earl Grey (DSH, male, neutered, 9 mths).
Pudding uses outside for toilet through day; litterbox at night (we keep them in after dusk). Earl Grey at this stage rarely goes outside, so uses litterbox always.
Pudding happily shared a single litterbox with Earl Grey's older male predecessor. Earl Grey used his own in our daughter's room initially, before moving on to using the .. er .. 'public' litterbox.
Some time shortly after the two began sharing a litterbox the nightmare started. Both cats pee-ed on different people's beds a couple of times. That didn't persist, fortunately.
We tried providing separate litterboxes in different rooms. Earl Grey used both, from day 1.
We then started noticing urine smells in the loungeroom. Traced it to one corner - a small triangle of carpet behind some display shelves. Pudding had clearly decided this was her toilet! Semi-private - i.e. not totally hidden, easily accessed (by stepping through the bottom shelf of the display shelves), but certainly secluded.
We tried putting a litterbox in that corner. Pudding welcomed that at first - but then Earl Grey used that one too. The end of Pudding's interest in it --> she just pee-ed on another section of carpet close by.
We've cleaned the affected sections of carpet multiple times with "Urine Off". We then don't smell urine for a while … but then Pudding starts again in the same corner.
We'd actually like to have a try at putting both cats through the "Litter Kwitter" routine; but we can't see how that's possible if Pudding won't share litter with Earl Grey. (The early stages of the LK involve what amounts to a small litterbox.)
Basically the issue seems to be:
1. Early Grey will 'christen' any litterbox we place anywhere;
2. Pudding won't use litter that Earl Grey has used.
Anyone have any ideas?
Found this forum through a Google search, due to the problem we're having here. Hoping someone can help - pretty tough one, I suspect. Here goes …
We're a 2-cat household of many years' standing, through a succession of cats, with the overlapping lifetimes. Current cats are Pudding (DSH, female, neutered, 3 or 4 yo) and Earl Grey (DSH, male, neutered, 9 mths).
Pudding uses outside for toilet through day; litterbox at night (we keep them in after dusk). Earl Grey at this stage rarely goes outside, so uses litterbox always.
Pudding happily shared a single litterbox with Earl Grey's older male predecessor. Earl Grey used his own in our daughter's room initially, before moving on to using the .. er .. 'public' litterbox.
Some time shortly after the two began sharing a litterbox the nightmare started. Both cats pee-ed on different people's beds a couple of times. That didn't persist, fortunately.
We tried providing separate litterboxes in different rooms. Earl Grey used both, from day 1.
We then started noticing urine smells in the loungeroom. Traced it to one corner - a small triangle of carpet behind some display shelves. Pudding had clearly decided this was her toilet! Semi-private - i.e. not totally hidden, easily accessed (by stepping through the bottom shelf of the display shelves), but certainly secluded.
We tried putting a litterbox in that corner. Pudding welcomed that at first - but then Earl Grey used that one too. The end of Pudding's interest in it --> she just pee-ed on another section of carpet close by.
We've cleaned the affected sections of carpet multiple times with "Urine Off". We then don't smell urine for a while … but then Pudding starts again in the same corner.
We'd actually like to have a try at putting both cats through the "Litter Kwitter" routine; but we can't see how that's possible if Pudding won't share litter with Earl Grey. (The early stages of the LK involve what amounts to a small litterbox.)
Basically the issue seems to be:
1. Early Grey will 'christen' any litterbox we place anywhere;
2. Pudding won't use litter that Earl Grey has used.
Anyone have any ideas?