My senior cat urinates on the rug by our back door daily, how do we stop this? His litter box is cleaned daily?

Like many other people have been saying, your cat might have a urinary tract infection. If he's crying when he's doing this, he might have bladder problems, like crystals in his bladder, which sometimes just happens with older cats, and happens more with male cats. For both, you should be going to the vet.

My cat for some reason decided that he likes to pee on certain types of rugs. I don't know if he just likes the feeling on his feet, or what, but I just put a different type of rug down, and he stopped.

Also, some cats do this to mark their territory. The rug that your cat is peeing on is by the back door, so there are probably many different scents on it, so he might be peeing on it mark his territory. Even if he's never done this before, this is still a possibility. In this case, you can go to a local pet store and find a spray to spray on that rug. I think it's called Pet-Be-Gone or something like that. You just spray it on the rug or area that you don't want your pet to go by, and most pets don't like the smell, so they stay away.

Hope this helps! Good luck!!

We have an 8 year old cat who started doing this after I rescued another kitty and she started coming the house. I tried everything I could think of, from picking up his poop and putting it in the box. My vet says he's just trying to get the point across to me, because he was the head honcho for 5 years, and all of a sudden he had to share us. I did, however, realise that there are some kitty litters that he just doesn't like. He hates the clumping litter, and doesn't like Tidy Cat clay litter. So I started buying Fresh Step clay litter, and during the warm months when the other cat is mostly outside, he uses his box 100%. Sometimes it just takes alot of patience and waiting for cats to come around. Try changing the litter brand? He may just be trying to adjust to a new home....you probably don't know it's history, so who knows if there is any abuse in it's background. Cat's pretty much do what they want, when they want...all we can do is be loving and patient. Best of luck to you. BTW- don't you just love all the idiotic answers you get. You are trying to ask a legit question, and you get brain-dead people answering. I sure hope they aren't animal owners.

You ought to have a litter box for each cat + 1 more= yes, you should have 3 litter boxes!

I know it sounds crazy, but it works wonders.

Also, have you have him to the vet? He may have a UTI. If you've had him to the vet and he does not have any problems, you may need to remove the rug. Once the smell is there, they often won't stop until it's gone.

Good luck!

1. Get a 2nd litter box - some cats don't like sharing with another cat.

2. Have him checked for a UTI by your vet.

No don't put him to sleep. Take him back to the Vet to do further testing to see if any medications can help him. I am sure there is something your Vet can do. It is part of getting old hon. Continue to give him much love. He can not help his condition. There are many kidney diseases and with the proper medications he may be fine. He may have accidents here and there, but he will be okay if it is not that serious and can be treated. At least explore your options. To yell at him would be emotionally draining on your cat. He simply just can not help himself. I am sure he knows what he is doing is wrong. I wish you luck and god bless.

Your vet should have done a work up on his blood to see how his kidney function is. He's getting to be elderly, and kidney failure is the leading cause of death in older cats. This isn't necessarily an immediate death sentence if it's caught earlier enough, but you may need to make some changes in his life.

By the time we caught it in our cat, she deteriorated so fast and died within 48 hours :(

Older cats do this sometimes. It could be that it's as close to outside as he can get, really hard to say about cat brain stuff.

I suggest you put a litter box right there. It might not be convenient, but it's got to be better than the alternative.

Cats, just like dogs need to be trained when he does a pee pick him up and put him in his litter box and eventually he will associate the box with pee hope this helps

Have you had your cat to the vet to check for a UTI or other underlying medical problem?

Get rid of the rug for a while (a week or two) if you can. If not, there is some kind of spray that you can put on it to stop him, but I can't remember the name. Good luck.