"cybercat" <cyberpurrs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> "Janet" <boxhill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> "cybercat" <cyberpurrs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>>
>>> "Janet" <boxhill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>>>
>>>> Any ideas? I have no experience with cats at all.
>>>
>>> Some cats like two boxes, one for pee and one for poo. It's
>>> not that much trouble for you, and since you are new to cats,
>>> let me tell you, it never pays to have a battle of wills with them
>>> over elimination matters. She is trying to tell you something, and
>>> rather politely. Some just pee in the middle of your bed.
>>>
>>
>> If we had two, would they be next to each other, or in different parts
of
>> the house?
>
> Since she is peeing on the mat, I would try close by--with room for her
> to step out of one and into the other. If she were my cat, I would first
> try
> placing the new box where she peed on the mat. I would be tempted to
> remove
> the mat, as some cats "prefer to pee on fabric." (A direct quote from my
> vet,
It's not a fabric mat, it's something that is made to slip under the
entrace
of the litterbox. It is plastic, with texture that is supposed to remove
litter from the cat's feet after exiting the box.
> But do try the second box first, and I assume you have had her
> checked for a UTI. If not, please do.
Since this is something that she does at most once every week or two, and
the rest of the time she pees in the box, I don't see any reason to think
it
is a UTI.
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