How to Stop a Cat from Peeing in the House

A cat who pees where it shouldn't is a frustrating event for everyone, oddly enough, likely even for the guilty cat! If you've got potential cat urinary problems on your hands, follow these steps to get a cat to use it's litter box rather than your carpet.

Instructions

1. Take your cat to the vet to rule out any serious cat health problems. It could be a cat urinary track infection, which can be painful for your pet, as well as deadly. Make sure that the cat pee problem is not health related, then you can move forward.

2. Clean out the litter box every day; many cats wont use a dirty litter box. To avoid a cat peeing anywhere but where they ought to, provide a separate litter box for each of the cats in your residence.

3. Get rid of old cat pee spots thoroughly or else they are likely to remark the spot. Use a cat urine odor remover or a general pet urine stain removal on the incidents to discourage the cat from ever "using" that part of the floor again.

4. Check to see if your cat's routine has had any drastic changes recently; a lot of times cat pee in odd places means that your cat is trying to communicate with you. Have you changed her food lately? Maybe you have been spending more time away from the house than normal? Look for those kinds of changes in order to find out why your cat is having urinary problems.