Can anyone help me with my cat. She has taken to peeing on my daughters bed. I have taken her to the vet, she has no physical issues. I have two litter boxes for her. I clean her litter everyday. I have used all the products suggested to deter her from going on the bed again. I have washed items in “Nature’s Miracle”. I do not know what else to do. Any suggestions please!
I think you’ll get more help in the In My Humble Opinion forum, trishakul. Moving thread from GQ. And welcome to the boards.
Is this a toddler, or new born? Cats get jealous.
Also, you may have 2 litter boxes but has anything new or noisy been added near them? This can cause an aversion to the boxes.
Does that include a water-pistol? Even if it doesn’t work, at least your daughter can get her own back! 
As the owner of a cat who decided for no reason to start peeing on the sofa…
2 things, and only 2 things, have worked.
a.) small bowls of food on the bed are a pretty good deterrent, and
b.) FOIL. Sheets of foil, laid out on the bed, whenever your daughter is not actually occupying the bed.
Cats do not like the noise or feel of foil–particularly on a soft surface where it’s guaranteed to make noise if it’s disturbed–and will avoid it.
Yeah it’s not gonna be fun covering a bed in foil all the time, but given time hopefully the cat will learn to disregard the bed as an option.
Might I also, however, suggest just keeping your daughter’s bedroom door closed…?
Let’s be right up front about it. Cats know what they are doing and peeing on anything in particular is a deliberate act to show anger/irritation/insult.
I love cats, have had them for most of my life. But deliberately peeing on MY BED is the one thing I absolutely will not tolerate. That single act is the end of that cat.
Have never had that happen (on purpose, anyway), even when I was with the ex and we had 7 cats between us. Oh, we had everything else in the house destroyed by pissing wars between them - couches, chairs, cat beds, items in storage. Basically anywhere one cat would favor hanging out would be targetted by any of the cats who had it in for that one cat.
Man, still gets me years later. We lost so much stuff. I’d never willingly go through that again. I’d start killing the cats myself if that sort of thing happened again. Hell, we came home one time, set our shopping bags on the dining room table, went into the bedroom and dropped things off and came out to find one of the cats peeing all over our shopping bags and the dining room table. We got rid of that particular cat that very week. (We gave it to someone. It started out being good for them, but they eventually had to get rid of it because after they moved to a new house, it went back into ‘pee on everything’ mode.)
Now I have one cat. Over the last couple of months she has peed in several places to show her displeasure (we’re in a smaller apartment with fewer windows and she’s bored). And each and every time I have very forcefully showed her MY displeasure.
The aluminum foil is a good suggestion. Double-sided tape (or loops of duct tape) work well for a similar reason!
OP, do you ever catch the cat in the act? The squirt gun is another good method but only works if you ever actually catch the little bugger in the act.
One of our cats went through a “pee on things” phase for a while - for the record it was jealousy over another cat, I’m sure, since it stopped when the other cat passed away - and it got so bad that at one point, Mr. Horseshoe swore that if he EVER caught the Bad Cat in the act again, he was going to grab the cat and pee on him!
Luckily, that was around the time that the Other Cat finally went to the big pet store in the sky and so I don’t know if the other Shoe would have actually gone through with his threat. But he sounded serious!
I don’t know, cat peeing on things consistently would be “cat-be-gone” in my book.
Nothing at all has changed in our household. No new anything. The cat is 8 years old. Quite frankly I am at my wits end. Thank you all for your awesome suggestions. I am going to try the foil thing and food. Unfortunately cannot close the door to her room. There is no door to close, it is an upstairs room. If this stuff does not work she will be “cat-be-gone”.
Thanks, I am new, did not know where to post.
We got this stuff - Sscat Cat Repellent Spray to keep the cats away from our closed bedroom door at night, and it is working like a charm. It doesn’t actually spray anything except a harmless gas, but the noise and gas spray freaks the cats out and they just bolt. It’s also motion-activated, so if you can figure out a place to put it where it will keep the cat out of that room, it might be worth a try.
I agree with everyone else; the cat is peeing on the bed for a reason, but that’s sort of moot for me, too - no one including the pets gets to pee on my beds.
Is it possible to close the door when your daughter is not in the room? Sounds so simple I’m sure you tried it.
No door on the room (post #9).
What about putting some sort of mat that cats don’t want to jump on on the bed? Like something with light plastic protuberances/nonpointy spikes that would bend and not hurt the cat but might make walking on the bed uncomfortable enough that Kitty wouldn’t want to do it?
They also make little pads that give the cat a very mild electric shock (harmless but irritating).
Perhaps a tarp to protect the mattress. Keep duplicate sheets and bedding to allow a rapid recovery. Cats do hate the foil, but dealing with the urine getting down into the mattress us a bitch.
You can also get plastic mattress covers at Walmart, Target, etc.
Tough problem. I’d buy a motion sensitive noisemaker (I’m pretty sure they exist) to deter her, along with a few mousetraps.
I’ll be the obligatory “see your vet” person. It’s possible that there’s something wrong with your kitty, such as a UTI or whatever, that’s making it uncomfortable to use the litter box. Kitty might be associating that feeling with the litterbox itself, and is seeking somewhere else that’s nicer to get away from it. It won’t work, but that’s cat logic for you.
If there’s nothing else that might change her behavior (new kitty, new house, new baby, new dog, whatever), it could be that she’s got some physical malady that needs fixing.
ETA: And here’s where I see that you’ve taken her to the vet already. Teach me to read the entire OP more carefully before spouting off, hey? Sorry.
I’ve seen something called Cat Attract at the vet recently. It is supposed to help with litter box aversion. I haven’t used this product, but it might be worth a try.
Can the cat get to the litter boxes when she needs to? Or is it possible that someone is closing a door between her and the boxes? Are there other animals in your house that might be keeping her from getting to the litter boxes?
Does the cat have trouble negotiating stairs? That sometimes happens as animals age. It could be a problem if all the litter boxes are on one level of the house, say, the basement.
The litter boxes aren’t next to something noisy like the furnace or washer/dryer, are they?
Have you changed your brand of litter recently? Cats can be picky about litter. It’s not a product where you can get away with buying whatever’s on sale this week. It’s better to find a brand your cat likes, and stick with it.