OMG, I feel your pain. We cannot leave any sort of soft material on our floor, at all. No bath mats, unless they are actively being stepped on post-shower. No laundry. No coats that fall off the coat hook. Oddly enough, whichever cat is at fault seems to ignore area rugs....
(I say "whichever" because we have seven -- three indoor-only, four indoor-outdoor. Why we have so many is a long story, but it boils down to too many people around here can't be bothered to spay/neuter their pets, and I can't bear to take strays to the shelter when I know 80% of them will be put down. So we keep all the weird/antisocial ones that we can't find homes for.)
Anyway, last year one of my cats got cancer, and she started peeing in inappropriate places, but she was very obvious about it. Then she passed away, and we had a few months respite from pee stains (long live enzyme-based cleaners!), and then it started up again, and we never catch the culprit in action. It's getting to the point where I might buy a motion-activated camera and put it down in front of a nice clean bathmat. Because I suspect the peeing may just be part of a struggle for dominance (the deceased cat ruled the roost, and now there's a power vacuum), but I worry that someone's got an undiagnosed health problem.
I had to laugh at the cat cafe post, because that's what my house looks like at night when the outdoor cats come in: grumpy cats lounging everywhere. (The outdoor cats, who are all related to each other, have been with us for two years, and they are *finally* learning to enjoy being petted.)
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(I say "whichever" because we have seven -- three indoor-only, four indoor-outdoor. Why we have so many is a long story, but it boils down to too many people around here can't be bothered to spay/neuter their pets, and I can't bear to take strays to the shelter when I know 80% of them will be put down. So we keep all the weird/antisocial ones that we can't find homes for.)
Anyway, last year one of my cats got cancer, and she started peeing in inappropriate places, but she was very obvious about it. Then she passed away, and we had a few months respite from pee stains (long live enzyme-based cleaners!), and then it started up again, and we never catch the culprit in action. It's getting to the point where I might buy a motion-activated camera and put it down in front of a nice clean bathmat. Because I suspect the peeing may just be part of a struggle for dominance (the deceased cat ruled the roost, and now there's a power vacuum), but I worry that someone's got an undiagnosed health problem.
I had to laugh at the cat cafe post, because that's what my house looks like at night when the outdoor cats come in: grumpy cats lounging everywhere. (The outdoor cats, who are all related to each other, have been with us for two years, and they are *finally* learning to enjoy being petted.)