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RE: Help Cat Peeing Ouside the Litter

evendozen — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:40:57 GMT

Go back and slowly introduce the new cat. There's lots of previous posts on this, especially under the NewCat/Kitten section.

Cats are very territorial and do not like change - so plopping a new roommate into an established household is Super Stressful.

According to the experts, with 3 cats you need 4 litter boxes. Try to locate them in different areas of your place so no one can hog all the boxes at once with glares and stares.

RE: Help Cat Peeing Ouside the Litter

sweetsurrender — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:49:52 GMT

Although you should always make sure a cat having litterbox issues is not ill in some way, seeing as this just started with the arrival of the new cat, it seems like it is a behavioral response to them being upset about the new cat. Did you introduce the new cat slowly, or just put it right in with the others? I have a multi cat household and they get VERY stressed out when a new cat comes into the family, and one of the things that we have done that has always helped is to keep the new cat separated at first for a week or so, bringing it out to meet the other cats a little at a time. Even this is stressful to my cats though and they have acted upset and spiteful even when done properly. It may be something that will just have to work itself out over time but you might try going backwards and keeping the new cat segregated for awhile with only short supervised interactions with the other cats and increase the time together slowly. Also, always try to make sure you're cats don't think you are spending more time with the new cat, or some can get very jealous. Try to give them a lot of attention, but of course if you see them misbehaving let them know what they did was wrong.

RE: Help Cat Peeing Ouside the Litter

Ocimom — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:13:13 GMT

If you don't really know who is not peeing in the litter pan, you might want to separate all the cats and give each a litter pan. That way you can tell who's having the problem and then take that one to the vet to be checked out for UTI.

You have 2 litter pans, but 3 cats and until everyone gets along you might want to add a third litter pan for awhile.

Help Cat Peeing Ouside the Litter

karen66 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:00:20 GMT

I've never had problems with my cats before I now have 3 cats.

Suki a male who is 5 years old, Sammy a female 1 years and I recently just rescued a Persian from the street who we named Cookie Female.

I just rescued Cookie last Friday so there is major adjustments going on. Sammy doesn't like her too much she growls at her and hisses and runs away from her Sammy seems scared of her. Yesterday evening when I came home from work I noticed urine in the cat bed. The new cat was sleeping in there the day before.

Cookie is still a little weak sleeps alot and is very thin. I am trying to fatten her up and get her strength up. I brought her to vet and she is not in bad shape just thin.

What can I do about the Sammy Cookie situation I would hate to give her away is a super sweet cat. The vet thinks she's about 5 years old she was also chipped but the chip was never registered. Suki the male he doesn't have a problem with it, I haven't seen Sammy using the litter like I used to. I have two litter pans and put Cookies in another room during the day when I'm at work I put Cookie in the basement with her food and litter I don't have the food and litter near one another.

Thanks for your advice.