How to Interrupt Wrong Cat Habits
Once a cat has chosen a potty place, he continues going to the same place attracted by the smell. In order that this does not happen, it is necessary to do the following thing:
1. Clean immediately the zone or dirty zones with a biological substance that eliminates the smell. The normal disinfectants do not remove it and the air-fresheners can encourage the cat for putting his mark in the same place.
2. Put the cat's food bowl in that place. The cats avoid staining where they eat and this one can be an effective dissuasion.
3-. Have to take care that the box of sand of the cat is in a good place, have the suitable sand and be cleaned with regularity
4. If the problem persists, you can close the cat in a room or in an interior of small yard where he has only his bed, water and the box of sand. You can let him out only for eat and for frequent meetings of games and caresses. Leaving the cat little by little, to walk for the rest of the house, but monitoring him closely. When he give signs of dirty out of his place, you turn to close him and beginning again.
5. If all of this fails, it is possible that be necessary to look for professional help for our cat.
Q/A Anais, our cat of short hair, has started getting dirty in the living-room, near the door of the kitchen. Everything began when a cat of the neighbour entered in the house through the cat-hole. What can we do to avoid it?
The first thing, to close the cathole, in order that the visitor cannot return to it. If your back door is of crystal, close it with a courtain, in order that the intruder could not look at Anais through it. Do not let to enter Anais to the living-room. To clean the dirty parts, use warm water and a biologic air-freshener. Make sure that the hygienic box of Anais be in a calm place never near the cathole. If she tries to get dirty in another place, enclose him a few days in a room with water and the hygienic box. Give her to eat normally and try that he feels well. When he returns to enter in the living-room, put his dish on the place that he had dirtied. Also you can install a magnetic cathole that is activated by a device put in Anais's necklace.
Tortie, our 15 year-old cat, has begun using the bath tub and sink as bathroom, She sleeps in the above floor, but her box of sand has always been in the kitchen. Is this behavior a sign of age?
Probably the box of sand is too far in order that Tortie could come in time now that she is getting old. Do that the veterinarian sees her to know if she has arthritis or another ailment that could cause pain or slowness in walk. Try to put a box of sand in the floor of above, near where Tortie sleeps (but not too much). Leave the bottom of the bathroom and of the wash-hand with a bit of water, to dissuade her to using them.
We have moved a month ago to a new house. Since then, Rajá, our oriental neutered of short hair, has begun to urinate inside the house. He began doing it in a few boxes that I had raised from the garage. Why does he do this?
It is possible that a cat of the neighbor has entered in the garage and has urinated in the boxes. Throw them out and clean the dirty zones with warm water, spray with alcohol once its clean. Then cover them with a spray of pheromones, this will do that Rajá feels calmer. Spoil him too much. If he continues doing it, consult an expert in behavior of pets. It is possible that it is necessary to enclose to Rajá in a part of the house during a time. Also are useful the ansiolitic medicines.
