Cat Uses Carpet as litterbox: Was "HELPPPP!!"
Jodie Gray
Forgive me if it did show up and i just missed it.
Kevin
We have been going through the same thing with Butterscotch off and on
for several years. When we got new carpet and the same thing started
happening, we were at wits end and ready to put her to sleep. I
finally took her to a vet that specializes in cats and she gave me a
lot of suggestions.
If your cat is at all overweight, or especially long, using the
litterbox may be uncomfortable because it may be too small, or too
tall. We replaced our litterbox with a rubbermaid storage container
that was shorter and much longer. We also made sure we weren't filling
the litterbox too high. The bad news is that this did work, but not for
long.
But the vet did come up with a suggestion that has worked so far for
over a year. We bought plastic chair mats, the kind that are used
under office chairs that have those nice sharp grippers on the bottom.
Since fortunately, Butterscotch had 3 corners where she would always
go, we shampooed the carpet using Nature's miracle and then put down
plastic (JUST IN CASE) and put the chair mats upside down in all the
corners! All it took was to drop her (gently) onto each of those chair
mats, and she has not gone there since!!!!
Given all the money I had spent on repellants, shampoos and even
tranquilizers to cure this problem, the $30.00 it cost me for the chair
mats was worth every dime. One word of warning when you are putting the
chair mats down, you may want to wear thick gloves--they ARE SHARP!!!
Oh, and one more suggestion that my vet gave us, which my husband is
just dying to try, but we're keeping in reserve for now, just in case:
Especially if you are not lucky enough for this to just be
"conveniently" happening in corners of the room, wherever this problem
is taking place, put down Contact Paper!! Couldn't you just die at the
image of it? Anyway, after getting stuck to that once or twice, I
would think the problem would be resolved!!
Good luck!
Jesse Brink
> Especially if you are not lucky enough for this to just be
> "conveniently" happening in corners of the room, wherever this problem
> is taking place, put down Contact Paper!! Couldn't you just die at the
> image of it? Anyway, after getting stuck to that once or twice, I
> would think the problem would be resolved!!
Another idea , though a little unorthodox , is contact explosives .
Nitrogen triiodide works well; when anything touches it it explodes .Just
sprinkle it around the area in question , it is important to use only very
small amounts. This is how I trained my cat to not jump up on the kitchen
counter when I'm not around ( it was easy to teach him not to do it when
I was there). Dogs hate it too.