I don’t know how much longer this cat has to live in my house I will throw her out.?
I have had my cat for about six years. She is quickly wearing out her welcome. Last month she started peeing outside of the litter box. Nothing had changed not my habits her litter box nothing. I took her to the vet she doesn’t have a UTI. Finally, I took the cover off the box and she started using it again. Now I have noticed the smell of cat pee in my apartment. I just bought all new leather furniture if I find she is ping in the house in a corner somewhere if I don’t kill her I will put her in her kitty carrier and drop her at the SPCA. I feel like it’s becoming a battle of me vs. her and she will lose. What can I do? I love her but I won’t live in her litter box.
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Please don't throw her out. This is because the animal shelters are already over crowded and because she is not a kitten, she probably won't get chosen, then she will be put down. This is because people who want a cat and go to animal shelters usually adopt kittens because they want to start a whole life with a cat not a half life.
You can easily handle it, just spray a citrus spray onto where she usually goes and then she will go on the only thing that isn't citrus...... the litter box! This is because cats do not like the smell of citrus.
Do not punish him, even clapping your hands etc will only make it worse!
If the spray doesn't work, then she might have associate the litter box with fear or pain, so try getting a new litter box, new brand of cat litter etc. Or you could place the (new) litter box near the inappropriate location. Give the cat a few days to a week to get used to any new location. Don't move the litter box more than a couple of feet at a time.
It might be one of these as well-
The box isn't clean enough for her.
She doesn't like the type of box: It's too big, too small, too high, too low, has a hood, doesn't have a hood, too hard to get into, and so on.
She doesn't like the litter: It's clay, it's clumping, scented, unscented, too hard, too soft, she doesn't like litter at all, there's too much, not enough, etc.
She doesn't like the location: It's out in the open, too hard to get to, next to a noisy appliance, in the basement when she wants it in the living room, etc.
She's too young, too old, or too unwell to make it to the basement to use the box.
She was startled by something or someone or "ambushed" by another pet while she was in it.
Something in her environment or routine has changed. She's anxious and is marking her territory to reassure or assert herself.
She associates the box with punishment. (For example, someone punished her for eliminating outside the box, and then placed her in it.)