I took in a stray cat approx 2 yrs old, male. I already have 3 cats who share a large litter box. I constantly let the new cat out side to go to the bathroom. He has peed on my carpet when he wasn’t able to get outside in time. I have tried to make him use a litter box by closing him off in the bathroom with litter, I used sherdded paper, I used dirt to make him think he was outside. Nothing has worked. He just holds it in! I had him neutered within a mth of taking him in a year ago. He is the coolest cat, I love him so much I want to make this work!

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Hi. Looking around at cat furniture, cat condos, and scratching posts, I notice that some have mostly or all carpet, and some have mostly or all sisal rope. Which is better?

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She plays with her dish and any glass I leave out. She knocks over her bowl and the carpet is always wet. I can’t leave a glass out because she’ll knock it over and has already ruined a remote and several important papers. How do I break her of this? She knows better because she doesn’t do it when I am home, only when I’m gone. Sometimes she paws at her water dish in front of me, but as soon as I get onto her she knows to stop. She also plays with the toilet water and drops her toys inside. It’s no fun fishing cat toys out of the toilet if someone leaves the seat up. HELP!!
She doesn’t tip over her bowl anymore, she just scoops it out I think because when I come home the carpet is wet but the bowl is rightside up and still has a little water in it.

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I have a 1.5 year old female bengal who recently began acting strangly. I have a male cat about 1 year old who is neutered and just yesterday out of no-where she started hissing at him and this morning we found dark marks that looked like blood all over the carpet. We thought she has been spayed and so we don’t know what the deal is. I tried to get her in the cat carrier today to take her to the vet but its been practically impossible. Is she in heat? Does anyone know what it might be and should i be worried?

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My boyfriend says he is trying to mark his territory and will get rid of him if he pees on the carpet again. How do we make sure he doesn’t do it anymore because he does pee in his litter box most of the time, but sometimes it’s on the carpet. Please help, I’ve grown attatched to him and hate seeing him get into trouble. I would hate to see him go.

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My cat Apollo wakes me up every night without fail because he is scratching the door to the upstairs apartment and the carpet in front of it. I wake up and usually tell him "No" and spray him with a water bottle but this has been going on now for over 2 months. Are their any safe and easy ways to stop him from doing this? He has a scratching post and I refuse to get him declawed but I just want a few nights of undisturbed sleep. Please help!
I understand he wants to go out the door but unfortunately, it is to the upstairs apartment and I can not let him out of my apartment. He has free run of the entire place!

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I can’t stop my cat from scratching. She’s 6 and we inheritied her from a friend who could no longer look after her. Since we’ve had her she’s changed so much. She’s so much more confident and looks happy she plays all the time but she scratches really bad.

We’ve got her a scratching post which she ignores, clipped her nails, shouted at her, ignored her, squirted her with water but nothing works. We even thried this foul smelling spray to spray where she scratches she’s ruined our carpet in our house and our sofa.. I’m at my wits end over what to do…

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I have a 2 year old cat, and we got another dog a few months ago. He was very interested in the cat and would often eat her ‘droppings’. We got him to stop doing that, but she now refuses to use her litterbox, she goes in the same corner in the living room all the time. Putting the litter box there is not an option, is there a way to get her back into the litter box? She’s ruined the carpet there, and my mom wants to get rid of her. Help!?!

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My friends cat just had five kittens and he wants to give me one. We have three cats, but two never come inside and the other one is really annoying. My dad always says how annoying cats are and how he will never get one as long as he lives. But I have a cat carpet tower thing in my room, and I can keep it in my room til it gets bigger since im gone from 8:30-3:00. We have 3 dogs but one is leaving in july to live with my sister. I know they’ll say no we have to many animals in our house already. I’m seventeen so i can use the little kid cry stuff. Please is there anyway you can think of to help me get the kitten.
well i meant can’t use cry excuse cause im 17. and the cat would be in my room for six hours max. the friend that has the kittens did exactly that. kept them in his room til he got home and he would get back and she would be sleeping. then he played with it til he went to bed. its not in my room all day 24/7 just when im not home. and im home on weekends to. it would have things to go crazy with. And I know if i got it they would play with it to. its just the thought of them having to take care of it that turns them away.
By annoying he means the cat that comes inside. She goes in one door meows non-stop literally til you let her out the next. You cannot pet her if you try she walks away.

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she will use the litter box 85% of the time but then sometimes she will poo or pee within a foot of the litter box. Even a freshly changed one.
She’s female and the litterbox hasn’t moved.
For the life of me I can’t figure this one out. None of my other cats have ever done this. Do you think it’s just a behavior problem? If so can it be worked out or should I make the tough decision we all dread when a pet doesn’t work out? She is amazing and I love her, one of the best cats I’ve had other than this "big" problem. It’s stinking up my house and ruining carpet.

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