Feline House Soiling
A cat urinating or defecating outside the litter tray, or spraying to mark. The first step is always to rule out illness, since cystitis, stones and especially a blocked bladder in a male cat can be behind it, and a straining cat passing little or no urine is an emergency. Once medical causes are addressed, managed by optimising the litter trays, reducing stress and easing any tension between cats.
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The litter-tray audit: number, type, litter and location cats actually want
Before we touch a single litter tray, one thing has to come first, because getting it wrong is the most common mistake owners make: rule out illness. A cat that suddenly stops using its tray is very often telling you it...
Cat peeing outside the tray: the first thing to rule out is illness
When a previously clean cat starts weeing on the carpet, the bath mat, the bed, or just beside the tray, the first feeling most owners have is a quiet, sinking frustration. It is easy to read it as a protest, a strop...
Cats that do not get along: easing inter-cat tension at home
If you live with more than one cat and something feels off, one spending its days on top of the wardrobe, a puddle by the back door, a bald patch on a belly, you may already sense the cats are not getting along, even...
Stress, FIC and the indoor cat: the enrichment that prevents relapse
If your cat has been diagnosed with feline idiopathic cystitis, or you have lived through one of those miserable weeks of straining at the tray, blood-tinged urine and accidents on the bathmat, you have probably been...
Spraying vs squatting: marking is a different problem with a different fix
When a cat starts putting urine where it should not, almost everyone reaches for the same explanation: the litter tray. They scoop more often, buy a new box, switch the litter, maybe shut the cat in a smaller room, and...
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