Cat peeing on the bed
My partner and I just adopted my first cat about 3 months ago. She is my absolute world and I love her so much.
Since about a month in she has been peeing outside of her litter tray and on our beds (we have our bed and a spare bed). We took her to the vet and they said that she had cystitis which they thought was stress related due to having just been rehomed. We got her some pain medication and followed the vets advice with getting another litter tray, getting her more hydrated, and using feliway to help with her anxiety.
This seemed to help for a little while, but she then started peeing on our beds shortly after, to the point where we felt like we had to close our bedroom doors when we were out of the house as we couldn’t handle the amount of cleaning up and washing (and the expense in buying so much enzyme cleaner), which made me feel horrible. We did another urine sample and it came back completely normal, so it wasn’t a cystitis issue this time as far as we are aware.
I found online that if you feed cats treats etc on a bed, then they associate that area with eating and playing and so won’t pee on it. However, she’s peed on our bed tonight, and it feels like we’re back to square one again. I feel so hopeless with this and I’m worried something behavioural is going on and I want to help her.
Has this happened to anyone before? Does anyone have any advice for how it stopped?
Thank you so much for any help you can give.