Cat moving house and urinating everywhere
We have been in our new house for about a month, and all of our cats seem very happy with the bigger house (lots more room than before). Yet the last few days we have noticed that one of our cats has been urinating on our stove top, yet it was not done at the old house. We have 13 cats, took the lid off the boxes thinking this would keep them from peeing on the floor (another issue, and here we find them peeing on the stove, but have no idea how to find out which one it is or even why all of a sudden they are doing this. Nothing has changed, same litter, boxes, food, etc. so we are at a loss. Also, why are they all of a sudden peeing in this one corner of a hallway we have downstairs? We put down natures miracle, but they keep going back there. We have some left over brand new padding from the new carpet at the old house that we are going to put there and take out the old, will that help? We have a nice new house and want to start fresh without the cats peeing everywhere. We have 5 boxes downstairs do we need more? Please help, we love our cats, wont get rid of them but dont know what to do. They range from 1 1/2 to 15 years old. |
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