Cat Weeing on Spare Bed

[TEE JAY]

Our 16 week old kitten keeps weeing on the duvet on our spare bed. She does not do this on our main bed or anywhere else in the house. She has easy access to two litter trays and seems to make a special trip into the spare room to do it. She did it twice this weekend, once Saturday morning after I had just made the bed up with fresh linen as we had friends coming to stay, so I had a mad panic washing duvet, cover and sheets before our friends turned up! And then again the next morning after they had left, so once again I had duvet, cover and sheets to wash! Is it that she doesnt always have access to the spare room so hasnt "explored" it? Or is she just being awkward?!

[Pies]

Harsh as this may seem,but it will work

Rub her face in it as soon as she does it she won't do it again

[aka pixi]

tee jay, if you can keep an eye on the kitten and when she seems about to sneak into the bedroom, pick her up and bob her in one of the litter trays, she should soon realise where she should do it. If you arent able to keep an eye on her, if you put a litter tray in or close to the spare room then each day move it a bit closer to where the other ones are she should soon be trained (fingers crossed) good luck :)

[lankeela]

Put a door on the spare bedroom and close it!

If you already have a door then put a litter tray ouside the closed door.

If you rub her nose in it then you do not deserve to own any animal. It serves no useful purpose and will only frighten/possibly injure her.

If necessary keep her confined to the room where the litter tray is until she is old enough to go outside.

[josaphine32]

I have a very simular problem to you mu kitten is 16 weeks also, and she unrinates under the stairs, after about 30 times of washing the carpet, the scent must still have been there so in the end i cut the carpet out binned the underlay jet washed the carpet with a high power cleaner, used disinfectand, soap powder, 1001, an odour repellent to elliminate the smell, with in an hour of putting the carpet back down under the stairs guess what she did, yep peed on the same place of that carpet,i took it out in the end, and no accidents since (well im sure it wasnt an accident) the only answer i found was to get rid of what there peeing on and use loads of citrus where they wee Cats hate citrus fruit and citrus air freshners

good luck

[funnywebsite]

Either keep the door shut or put a bowel of orange peel on the bed or in the doorway. Cats hate the smell of citrus.

[maggie01]

Pies answer shocked me as no way do you rub any animals nose in anything. I hope you don't do that when you are training children to be clean.! We had this with our dog in the dining room. Wash the duvet to get rid of the smell and keep the door closed. As the others have said, put the litter tray close to the room and gradually move it to where you want your kitten to use it. It takes a little time but your kitten will soon learn.

[camille79]

This happened to me and the vet told me it was to do with insecurity. Make a huge fuss of your kitty but keep contact her her terms and don't scare her! Keep her in one room until she is confident then gradually allow her to explore the rest of the house, one room at a time.

If given access, she will keep soiling the same place so clean thoroughly and restrict access.

My cat grew out of it by following the vet's advice and getting spayed also helps when she is a little older.

[drgnrdr]

I have questions for you...How long has she been doing this? does she normally go to her litterbox? did you clean the bed with an Enzyme odor eliminator? or the linens and Duvet? From what I gather you have something over there by "simple solutions" it has enzymes in it that actively go after odors and take them away, (If you live in the UK), for those in the USA check out "Nature's Miracle".

Have you seen a vet? Sometimes cats with an UTI or other problems eliminate away from the box, sometimes it's a change or disturbance in the home that causes it. For help please go to:

http://www.catsinternational.org/

Check out their articles you will find allot of them written about housesoiling and litterbox problems on there, and

Don't put their nose in it, it doesn't always work. It's an archaic Ideal. Most animals that have this done to them start to not want to eliminate in front of you and will hide it better, try to consume whatever it is that you are trying to push their face into, thinking you want them to get rid of it (this happens with dogs more often than cats), and some will try to avoid you when your home.

Check out the website you'll be gald you did.