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Butterfly4u
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My cat has picked up this habit of pissing on my clean clothes that are in my laundry basket. She only urinates on the baskets of clean clothes and only when they are in the living room. To give you some background she's 5 years old, an only cat, and we recently found out she has fleas. She started urinating on my clothes after I treat her for her fleas which has been twice so far. The first time she did it I watch her urinate then she promptly ran off to the litter box to go poop. The litter box is clean so it's not that. The second time she urinated on my clothes when I wasn't home. She's been spending a lot of time hiding inside the couch sleeping when she normally sleeps out in the open. Adding to the stress of fleas is the fact that my boyfriend is slowly moving his stuff in. We've also had maintenance coming and going as they try to fix a leak in the bedroom. I'm sure Tigger also loves the fan that is airing out the carpet in the bedroom. So I know she's stressed, but how do I get her to quit urinating on my clothes? At $2 a wash I really hate to be rewashing my clothes twice a week.
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Barring that, she could just be needing a whole ton of attention, with all the changes.
He never did it again.
I actually worked at work on Saturday. Also I went out on a date with a real life girl.
Can you like, permanently break the forums?
It really, really sounds like your kitty's stressed out about all the changes. First and most practically, don't leave the laundry where she can get at it. Next, you might want to shut her into the bathroom with her food, water, litter box, a few toys, and something soft to sleep on while you're gone and people are coming in and out. Having a more controlled environment should calm her down, and if she messes in the bathroom, it's all tile anyway. Finally, make sure you give her lots of attention, and have your boyfriend start paying attention to her as well. Hopefully, once you stop giving her the opportunity to pee on things and the stressful changes stop, she should calm down.
My mom just brought our cat home. The cat jumps on the kitchen counter. My dad throws the cat off the counter. The cat never jumps on the counter again.
The trick is that the consequence needs to be directly after the act. Its no good bringing the cat back an hour or two later and expecting it to understand while you sit there saying "you see that? thats bad!" You need to catch them in the act.
Yeah, what the cat learned is not to let people SEE the cat jumping on the counter. To actually keep it off there, you have to come up with a way for the cat to not want to jump on the counter. (I've heard putting double-sided tape up there for a week or so works wonders, by the way.)
I have a cat that for it's entire life has been a litterbox cat. A few months ago, I attempt to swap him over to the pine litter, which was a horrible idea, as the pine counteracted the ammonia of the urine perfectly, but did absolutely nothing at all for the shit. The pine chunks were large, like really big pills, so my cat didn't actively bury anything, just left it on top. He only had that litter for a couple of weeks and i moved back on to is regular stuff.
The Problem: he won't bury his shit. he poops, right on top of the litter, scratches the fucking wall next to it, like he's covering it up with wall flakes or some shit, i don't know. But, when i go in there, i see his poopers just laying on top of the litter. It is ridiculously frustrating, as uncovered, his poo reeks the entire apt.
First off, if you can catch him pooping, wait until he's done and trying to scratch at the wall and then take his paws and redirect them to the litter. Sort of guide him to cover his own poop, you know? Keep doing that as often as possible until he starts burying on his own. Getting a bigger litter box might help, too, 'cause he'll have a bigger target to scratch in. To deal with the stink, flush any unburied poops that you weren't around to help him bury. Hope he gets the idea soon!
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That sucks, you should probably buy some bug bombs for the house. Do the whole once every two weeks for a month or two. It's gonna suck but it should kill all the fleas and their newly hatched spawn. Otherwise the cat, and eventually you, will be peeing on the laundry again
STEAM
otherwise as already said, they will only associate you with "being punished (period!)" , should you choose to directly punish. the bad deed wont factor into their thinking at all