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my kitty's strange new bathroom habits
My 2 1/2 yr. old female kitty, Tiggy began to pee in the bathtub last year when she went into her first heat. The only time she's done this is when she was in heat, then i subsided. Over the weekend, my husband turned on the stove burner to make tea and he smelled the odor from hell. It seems she peed in the drip pan and on the burner to our electric stove. He never liked pea soup, but trust me, this was the worst pee soup I never could have imagined Unreal to finally clear the odor. She plays with the stream of water in the bathtub faucet sometimes, could she have thought the water in the teapot was connected somehow? I'm grasping here! Holy Cow!!!
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Maybe she has a bladder infection. But i suggest you get a door on your shower! And when you are done with your teapot, you should put it away. My cat ruined our 12,000 dollar couch from my great grandfather://. stupid cats!
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Sometimes cats pee outside the litter box when they have a urinary track infection. You could get her checked out for this. If she doesn't have a UTI, then there is a psychological reason for her to do this. Is she spayed? Even if she is, you have already mentioned she has gone into heat, which means that she may still want to masturbate and act out actions (ie peeing in the tub) she has when in heat even when she doesn't go into it any more. (This is why pets should be spayed/neutered before going into heat happens.) It could also just be that after going into heat and peeing in the tub, she decided that she likes peeing in water filled containers. Some cats can be trained to use a toilet instead of a litter box. You could look this up for your kitty. Some cats also pee outside the litter box as a way to say they are unhappy about something. Have you moved recently? Did you rearrange the furniture? Get a new litter box? Get a new cat? Cats dislike change and they express their dislike via peeing on things. Maybe she doesn't like the style of litter box and wants a different one. Maybe she just wants more attention. Basically, it could be many things, and it will take a while to figure out what caused this.
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