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7:38 pm
Ethereal Buddha Cat
April 30, 2012
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Last night I was up until almost 2am cleaning the pee stains on my beautiful, expensive mattress. Then I had to sleep on the couch with those two cuddling up to me and it was bloody hot!! I found 1 wet spot and two almost dry spots when I went to change the sheets – someone decided my comforter was so much better than the litter box (which had been cleaned that morning) to relieve themselves on. All of this happened after two days of cleaning up poops in the middle of my bed. I spend more time laundering bed linens,comforters and duvet covers than I do anything else these days. Right now I have the bedroom door closed and they have to use the litter box they really don't like, I am so angry with them that I am about to pack them up and take them back to shelter I got them from; then something cute happens – Luna just wandered in and meowed at me after trying to open my bedroom door. I told her she had to use the other litterbox. A few seconds later I hear her scratching and digging away in that box!
Soleil is studiously ignoring me and has been since I discovered the spots. I think he set the example and Luna figured she'd go along for the fun, only she did two little spots to his nice big one. After I get off the computer I'm off to PetCo to buy the pet urine smell neutralizing solution, then to Target or BB&Beyond to buy a water (i.e. pee) proof mattress cover. I am also going to make sure to clean the litterboxes in the morning and as soon as I get home at night. I can't think of anything else to do and I know I really can't bear to give these cats up. Where is Jason Galaxy when I need him???????
They are both in good health, except for flare-ups of the virus they caught while they were in the Shelter. I feed them really good food with all natural ingedients and no grains, they get plenty of fresh water. I spend time playing with them and being affectionate to them and still I get this. I wonder if they can still smell Myet and Sanuk on my bed (those two never peed on my bed, all they did was sleep there)???? I'm going nuts trying to get this behavior to stop. 
Anybody else ever run into a problem like this????
8:48 pm
Gobby wee shite of litter runt.
April 30, 2012
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I have a similar issue with PussTat, I can't get her to stop peeing in the hallway so I'm forever cleaning it. It annoyed me so much I did take her back to the shelter but I couldn't bare it and brought her back after two nights (I was fostering her, now I've adopted her). I am trying to be stricter about cleaning her tray but it's not so bad cleaning the hall every few days.
12:28 am
Cat Box Archaeologist
April 29, 2012
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we still haven't caught the culprit, but it happens in my sister's room all the time. He bed still has the plastic when we bought it new last year! Boo Kitty, the oldest female we have, stays in there all the time for 15 years, but the young version of her, Ricky, is trying to move into it. We think it's the two girls having a turf war. I've got two boys that are competitive sprayers, but they choose the front window and the laundry room.
7:54 pm
Laser Pointer Chaser
May 4, 2012
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We had to shut Minina permanently out of our bedroom as she ruined a duvet cover due to this issue. She's also wrecked a bathmat, hubby thinks the rustling of feathers in the duvet triggers it, the bathmat is shredable (so to them a fancy, SOFT litter box). we also had major issues with puss peeing on jackets & once on couch, over a blankie. bring puss in for a bladder infection/crystals check up: ours showed no crystals or infection, but had pee in her urine…so vet figured infection was on its way & the inappropiate peeing stopped after medicating. we also removed items of temptation for less chance of it occuring again. hubs said once pee gets in mattress or duvet, it won't come out & they keep coming back as now they've marked it as their own. good luck with neutralizer!
2:47 am
Bengal Tiger
May 4, 2012
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We've found some mattress protectors that stop liquid that AREN'T plastic. You can get them at Target, anywhere that sells bedding basically. We started using them when the boys were potty training. They're a little more expensive but they're worth it to protect the mattress. And they're better than the actual plastic sheets, which are so hot and gross. Your bedding may stiill get destroyed, but your mattress will live.
Two of my worst pee-ers have passed on, Sugar and Tommie. But Tookie is the worst of all time. He just pees wherever the hell he feels like it. I basically have given up on getting him to stop because he's 15. So no advice for you on that part of the issue…
12:59 am
Ethereal Buddha Cat
April 30, 2012
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Bingo, H4T! I did find a good mattress protector at Target and it's comfortable to sleep on. I'm beginning to think that this is an ingrained behavior that got them surrendered to the Shelter in the first place (and which was not mentioned when I was adopting them). Soleil has a thing about peeing on soft things – he actually squatted and saturated his cat bed right in front of me one night. Sounded like he'd been out sucking down beers all night! They've been behaving themselves but I know it will happen again – at least my mattress is protected thoroughly!
1:52 am
Ethereal Buddha Cat
April 30, 2012
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tonksrok said
Bingo, H4T! I did find a good mattress protector at Target and it's comfortable to sleep on. I'm beginning to think that this is an ingrained behavior that got them surrendered to the Shelter in the first place (and which was not mentioned when I was adopting them). Soleil has a thing about peeing on soft things – he actually squatted and saturated his cat bed right in front of me one night. Sounded like he'd been out sucking down beers all night! They've been behaving themselves but I know it will happen again – at least my mattress is protected thoroughly!
I have to get me one of those; should've read this before I went to Target yesterday; I never know when/if Murph will decide I've done something to warrant my bed getting peed on again.
Only last night I discovered that it's Abby not Murph whose been using the Oriental rug in the living room as a litter box/statement of dislike for Bo as I caught her in the act of trying to cover a fresh pile of stinky poo, grrrhh! 
1:56 am
Lap Warmer
May 14, 2012
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I praise mine to the skies when I see them them in the litter box.
Have you tried Dr Elsey's cat attract litter?
How about the shape or locations of the boxes? Do you have different shapes?
Is one of the boxes in the open so kitty has an escape route if he/she feels the need for one?
No hooded boxes, right?
Dite peed in the closet when there wasn't enough litter in her box, Felina peed on the counters when we tried crystals litter, and the boys pee over the side if I put too much litter in the boxes.
Sorry to be so choppy. I was throwing out ideas, and remembering what Jackson Galaxy says.
5:27 am
Lap Warmer
May 14, 2012
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I remembered something else: according to conventional wisdom, 2 cats=3 boxes.
They might have had a traumatic event with high-sided boxes, or round boxes, or low-sided.
Also, when I was trying the corn litter, Gus was leaving pee spots everywhere because he is allergic to corn and wanted to spend the least amount of time in the box as possible.
I would get rid of or move the box they don't like, and maybe put a box closer to the bed???
I hope one of those helps.
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