Kidney disease, UTIs, diabetes or thyroid dysfunction leads to urgent accidents cats can’t control. Vet visit determines treatment path.
Pre-existing Conditions
Changes with people, pets, home environments generate nervous unrest. Provide reassuring comforts of familiar beds, routines until they readjust.
Anxiety & Discomfort
Ensure litter boxes are set up privately on quiet, low traffic areas cats favor. Add boxes if resource guarding or ambushing happens.
Location Preferences
Cats dislike scented, coarse or sandy litters avoiding use. Experiment with pure clumping clay or pellet options they accept eliminating in exclusively.
Substandard Litter Appeal
Scat mats giving harmless static shocks when stepped on help give litter boxes positive priority again. Spray bottle corrections also deter unwanted digging.
Deterrent Devices
Don’t punish accidents. Use enzymatic cleaners removing all urine and stool smells that attract cats back to the same soiled planting spots repeatedly.
Clean Messes Thoroughly
Keep cats out of plant areas during retraining using baby gates for a few weeks. Supervise always when granting plant area entry again.
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