I noticed several of us quilters have cats so I want to ask a question. My daughter has a one year old cat that had a litter of kittens in Sept. The Weds before Thanksgiving we took the kittens from her and had her fixed. For the past few weeks she has peed on my daughters bed everyday. I don't think the problem is physical because she has not peed anywhere else in the house. Any suggestions on how to get her to stop doing this? Thanks!

I'll be watching this thread-my 18 yr old man has started peeing on the couch. Time for a trip to the vet!

she could be mad but if it continues I'd place a call to the vet.

Cizzors - my 15 year old cat had to be put down this past year. he started peeing in one spot of the house over and over regardless of what I did to stop it. We now know it was linked to his sickness but didn't know that at the time. It started happening about 6 months before we knew he was sick. (He had cancer, a very fast aggressive type too) You might want to call the vet and get him check out. I wish I had called sooner. Not sure it would have changed anything for us but still I regret letting it go thinking he was just getting old.

Sounds like she is mad about loosing her babies.

Covering the bed with a painters tarp help to keep the cat off the bed and also helped with the problem. She even started to use her box again.

My cat was doing this about a year ago - urinating & defecating at the end of the hall. After taking him to the vet, treating him for an infection, and doing all of what I'm about to say below, he stopped the behavior.

Only the vet can tell for sure if there is a physical reason for this behavior change. UTI's & other infections are common & it is best to rule them out by a visit to the vet. Other things to do to: Limit where the cat can go. Keep it out of the bedrooms & areas where it can do things without you seeing. Isolate in a laundry room or bathroom when you are not home or at night when you are asleep. Put a bell on the cat's collar so you can hear when it is headed for forbidden areas. Keep the litter box super clean all the time. Do you have more than 1 cat? This one may have decided it doesn't want to use the same box as others. It may take weeks before you figure out & correct the problem. Hope something here helps. Good luck.

As the behavior started after the spay surgery a trip to the vet is in order to ensure she does not have an infection. She won't go in other places of the house because she thinks this is the best place to let you know there is a problem.

It may also be possible you took the kittens away too soon. If they were born on T-giving and you just had this done that means the babies were only 6 weeks old at most! It may have been to soon and this is her way of showing that she is most unhappy with your behavior.

So first, get her to the vet to make sure it is not a physical problem. Then use the other advice posted here to try and change the behavior if there is no medical reason for this.

I agree putting her smell there so they will come find her.

Try covering the bed with a plastic shower curtain or liner only $1.00 at dollar stores tie down or add weights if tries to get under to do her business won't like WET feet if tries going on top! (worked Here)

oops, I'm sorry dkays, I just realized I read your initial post wrong. Kittens born in Sept, remvoed T-Giving. So they were about 8 weeks old. Few weeks go by and behavior starts. So it may not be related to the litter at all. She most likely had them weaned by that time and 8 weeks is ample age to rehome the babies. I believe this is a physical problem. She is choosing the best place to alert you to it, which is her chosen humans (your DD) bed. Get her to the vet ASAP. In the mean time do as others have suggested and cover the bed with a tarp or shower curtain liner or do not allow her access to your daughters room. There is something wrong and she is letting you know the only way she knows how.

When we had both our cats, each one of them would pee in any of our sinks so we could see the blood in their urine. Never, ever at any other time, only when they had UTI problems. And we had one cat 18 years and the other almost 21 years.

I was humane soc. manager for 12 years -most all cats like that were a behavior (jealousy) type problem.

I would think that a fairer statement would be "most cats like that ended up at the humane society were a behavior problem"

I really think most cats with litter box issues are doing so because of a physical problem. Most owners would take care of it and the cat would never end up at a shelter because the problem would stop. I am assuming you are basing your opinion on cats that showed up at the facility you managed as I am basing my opinion on 40+ years of consistent cat ownership and association with other cat owners who have seen this happen. It was almost always because of a UTI or other physical problem.

Another thing that causes the behavior to turn up spontaniously is declawing. I hope the cat was not declawed during the spay procedure. This could defintely cause it. It hurts their mutilated paws to dig in the litter so they associate the litter box with the pain and eliminate somewhere where it does not hurt them to dig.

I would go to the vet to rule out a bladder infection or some other kind of infection. Even if you do think its behavioral always good to rule that out.

And like has been said before make sure your litter boxes are always clean. There is a product called Feliway that is supposed to be calming (gives off calming pheromones) which might help if she's upset about loosing the kittens but at 8weeks old the mothers shouldn't be that upset because that is the age kittens become independent anyway. Good luck!

I agree with everyone that a physical problem is probably the cause. However, I know from experience ....yes, you Rudy!.... that jealousy can also cause it. Whenever I've paid too much attention to one of my other kitties and grouched at Rudy's rough housing, as his "person," Rudy let's me know he's mad by (1) not giving me kisses when asked, and (2) peeing on any of my boyfriend's clothes that are on the floor. Hence, Bob's nickname for him ... Rudely!

We had a male cat few years old, he is the one in my avatar, had to take in the vet this past summer because he stopped using litter box, vet said he did not have anything wrong, no infection or anything, the best that we could figure out is something spooked him where the liter box is, we have another cat and she uses that liter box fine but our male cat just quit, had to get another liter box just for him to use :( Cats are just weird sometimes.

So my question would be, have you moved the liter box from where it was? Is there anything where the current liter box is that could scare her? I would move the liter box to the room where she is going to the bathroom at, till i could figure it all out...it kinda sounds like a emotional problem. But it would not hurt to take it to the vet just to rule out anything physical, an infection would certainly make her do that.

Thanks for all the responses. I have called the vet and scheduled an appt. They agree with some of you and think it could be an infection.