Hi. I have a two year cat who has always been very clean and used her litter tray, but very recently has started to go to the toilet in a certain corner of the room. I don't know why she is doing this and I don't know how to stop her. We also have a kitten who we have finally finished litter training. However, she saw the older cat doing this, and this morning copied her. Does anyone have any advice as it's driving me crazy!

Is she weeing or pooing out of the litter box ? If weeing it could be she has a urinary infection and a trip to the vets will sort her out.

Otherwise, it could be she doesn't like using the tray if they kitten has been in it, so maybe add another tray somewhere else to give her a choice. Can you move the existing tray to the place where she is going at the moment.

There are lots of products you can get to remove the smell of wee and faeces completely -Urine off is a good one, but P@H do alternatives.

There is also a litter you could try called Cat Attract, that has a special ingredient to entice the cat to use the tray and from what I have heard it does work. Although I would be wary of using it if your kitten is very young as it is a clumping clay litter.

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Hi. Thank you for your response. She is only pooing out of the litter tray. Strangely she always goes back to the tray to wee. Her and the kitten have been using it together quite well for a few weeks so I don’t know if that is the reason. The only thing I can think of is that a stray tom keeps coming in through our cat flap – do you think this may be related?

I tried this method on Lennox when he kept pooing by the door - I left a bowl of dry food on the same spot and he never went there again as they wont go where they eat!

Can anyone else help as this is really getting to me? Would the tom be having an effect? Could there be a chance he is weeing in the house?

Agree with this. Poo is probably a bigger 'flag' to tell other cats 'this is my territory' than wee.

Last night I went to the area where they keep pooing and found LOADS of wee! We scrubbed the whole area and locked the cat flap, so if it was the tom then hopefully this will all stop, right......? We also put down food as someone said they don't like to go to the toilet where they eat. Arghhhh - this is driving me mad!

Hya - we have 2 litters trays and my 2 kitties use one for poo and the other for wee....they are soooooooo fussy and it took me ages trying out different litters that they would userolleyes:, (they just seemed to 'go off' the litter for some reason) anyway its sorted now -

you will get there in the end with your 2

I agree with the posts I would use Simple Solution after cleaning to get rid of any scent.

I would also put a hooded litter tray on that spot. Your cats may feel secure and private toileting there.

I'm not very house proud we had a litter tray in our main living room, I've moved it to the hallway now. I have at least three litter trays dotted about the house, I prefer the kittens to have easy access to a tray.

Mine have used the bath and the dogs bed once - I didn't put a litter tray there I denied them access to those areas - so far so good.

Good luck.

Sue