Cat peeing in the shower....how can I stop this?

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Bron and Sheba (GA)

Bron and Sheba (GA)

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Wondering if anyone has any suggestions for me. My daughter's cat Clover spends every day with me (and Harry, my (civvie). She lives next door (we all live in a large house divided into two homes) and goes home at night to my daughters. Both are indoor cats, have been together since kittens and get on well. Both are 2 years old.
Periodically Clover will pee in my shower and sometimes on a towel if it is on the floor. She also does this at my daughters place occasionally. It is often weeks inbetween her doing this, but today she has peed in my shower twice.
I don't think she has a UTI but I will test the next sample I can get. She is a very laid back cat so I don't think she is stressed. She loves spending time with Harry and is always waiting for me to get her each morning.
The litter box is in the bathroom so it is not possible to keep the door shut and there is really nowhere else to have the LB since we moved to our smaller place.
I keep the LB really clean so I don't think that is the issue. I sprayed the shower with vinegar today to deter her but I have no idea of that will help.
Does anyone have any idea why she might be doing this or how I can stop it.
Thanks Bron
 
We have a cat who is peeing and sometimes pooing in my bathroom. When she once peed in an empty laundry basket in there once, we then started putting an empty plastic storage bin with a puppy pee pad in it, in the corner, and now she pees in that instead of on the rugs, which makes it much simpler to clean up, just change the pad. We tape it in place, since the bin has no way to secure it, and we wanted high sides around the pad, only the front is lower.

However, she still poops on the rug, so we have ended up with a plastic tarp down over the tiles, then rubber-backed rugs over that, then small throw rugs over that as she seems to target them and they can easily be washed.

Problem with all that (other than my beautiful bathroom now looks like an industrial warehouse) is that we have a dog who eats cat poop if she can get it. So I often find only one or two small pieces, smears on the little rugs, and the rugs messed up as the cat attempts to scratch and cover the poop. No longer letting the dog come give "kisses", as she is known as "sh**face" on those days.

Vet checked both urine and poop for this cat, came up fine. No idea why she is suddenly choosing to go to my bathroom, which is at the farthest possible end of the house, instead of the litter boxes, which are central. Cannot keep the bathroom door shut, or the room gets very very cold as the heating to it is not quite sufficient. And also worried that if we did somehow shut her out of there, where would she then start peeing and pooping? At least we have the situation contained (if ridiculous and ugly) to that one bathroom and not the whole house.

Would love to find the answer to this situation, also.
 
The title made me smile. I can be of no help with a reason/solution, but I must say that it sounds better than her peeing on your couch or carpet or something. :)
 
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Dusty would do that too and I added another litter box (one in the laundry room and one in the bathroom) that seemed to help, he hasn't done it in a while. Like FurBabiesMama said though, there are much worse places for her to pee. I was glad Dusty was peeing in there and not on the carpet, couch or bed.
 
In our case, there is no room in that bathroom for a litterbox, it would pretty much be sitting in the middle of the floor. And our other cat is a big dumb clumsy furball, who goes into the litterbox, digs and digs (throwing litter out the door), then circles and circles until usually he has his butt hanging out the door (no matter how big the litterbox) and poops down the outside of the box and on the floor.
So our litterboxes are in the basement (which they have free access to via open cat doors in the basement doors) and we have gone to just using big, high, clear, plastic storage tubs so that the dorky cat can only poo down the inside of the box, not the outside, and has to work much harder to toss litter everywhere.
 
Morning here in Oz and just seeing all your replies. Thank you all for your thoughts and ideas. I can see it is a problem for many.
Dusty Bones said:
Is the basement cold dark and scary? She may not like it down there. :cat:
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We don't usually have basements here in Oz @Dusty Bones.
The LB is in the bathroom...the only place it can go really as we are now in a one bedroom apartment. It is bright and airy but private enough for them I think.

PussCatPrince - GA said:
Is it a urine elimination Bron as would be done in a litter tray or is it more of a urine marking. Less urine and maybe up against the shower wall a bit as wel as the tray , or into a corner.
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That's a good point @PussCatPrince - GA
She does like rubbing her sent on lots of corners in the place.......Harry is not displaying this trait at all.
Each time she has peed in the shower it is in the same place and is seems to be an elimination. I haven't seen any up the wall but I will look closer next time. I didn't think female cats marked their territory like whole males do.
I was thinking of barricading the entrance to the shower so she can't get in there......and hope she doesn't do it anywhere else. Not sure if this is a good idea or not. I know the shower is the best place if she has to do it somewhere, but I would really like to get rid of the problem if I can now before it gets entrenched.
I think I will try and scoop the LB after each use if I can and see if that helps. I have nowhere I can put a second LB.
 
Bron and Sheba said:
I think I will try and scoop the LB after each use if I can and see if that helps. I have nowhere I can put a second LB.
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You have. You could put one in the shower itself - maybe not the place she does her peeing ATM - & see if it gets used or if she ignores that for her usual shower spot.
If she uses it then maybe it's a litter tray issue. If not then move the tray to her usual shower tray pee spot and see if she uses it then or chooses another spot.
Where does she do this in your daughter's house?
 
PussCatPrince - GA said:
Where does she do this in your daughter's house?
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She does it in the shower there as well. It is not an every day thing....just every so often which is confusing as to the reason why.....yesterday twice.
I sprayed the shower with vinegar....I read on Dr Google that vinegar is a deterrent. I watched her...she went to the edge of the shower and sniffed and stuck her nose around the corner of the shower....her eyes were blinking blinking and then she walked away. She obviously found it unpleasant. A short time later she used the litter box. I told her she was a good girl and gave her a treat.
 
Bron and Sheba said:
She does it in the shower there as well. It is not an every day thing....just every so often which is confusing as to the reason why.....yesterday twice.
I sprayed the shower with vinegar....I read on Dr Google that vinegar is a deterrent. I watched her...she went to the edge of the shower and sniffed and stuck her nose around the corner of the shower....her eyes were blinking blinking and then she walked away. She obviously found it unpleasant. A short time later she used the litter box. I told her she was a good girl and gave her a treat.
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One of my cats will sometimes pee in the shower. And I've even found signs of illegal dumping. Someone, I think maybe my vet, said to put tinfoil down on the shower floor. I haven't had cause to try this yet.
 
Tom & Thomas said:
One of my cats will sometimes pee in the shower. And I've even found signs of illegal dumping. Someone, I think maybe my vet, said to put tinfoil down on the shower floor. I haven't had cause to try this yet.
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Yes I read on Dr Google that tinfoil is a deterrent. I'll try that ifthe vinegar spray in the shower doesn't work thanks.
 
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