How to distinguish the causes of cat bed
wetting?
Anywhere defecation type
Anywhere defecation type bedwetting usually occurs when the cat has not yet formed the habit of going to a fixed place to defecate, or does not want to go for some reason.
The cat will squat when urinating normally. The urine mark is usually a circle with a point as the center. After urinating, the front paws will have a sanding action.
Stressed defecation type
In layman’s terms, cats are scared to pee, usually they haven’t seen the world, or specially trained cats are very timid.
Maybe you open the door and sign for the courier sent by the courier, and the cat may pee on your hands, on your floor, on your sofa, or on Your bed will depend on where your cat is when startled.
The amount of urination in stress-type defecation is not large, maybe a few drops or a small tablet, much smaller than normal urination and marked urination. Cats that are scared to pee will also not litter, and usually leave by crawling against the ground.
Mark the pee mark
The cat has found a good spot and it won’t spray the pee mark right away. It will first judge the enemy’s situation and situation, first sniff this area with its nose, and know whether there are other cat marks in this area, whether it is a collaborator or a competitor, and whether it can offend the other party.
If it decides to spray urine, the cat will point its butt to the target. After the start of spraying, the cat will raise its hips several times, the purpose is to make the urine spray higher and farther. If it is a vertical surface, the cat will The urine will constantly refresh the height.
If it is a horizontal plane, the cat’s urine will continuously refresh the length, which means that the urine marks on the vertical plane may have non-overlapping peaks, and the urine marks on the horizontal plane will form long strips. After the cat sprays urine, it will not be buried, and there will be no sand burying action, because its purpose is to let the smell out.
We usually can’t catch the perpetrators on the spot. You can judge whether the cat is spraying urine, urinating or stress urination by the shape and size of the urine marks on the sheets.
How to deal with cat bedwetting?
Cleaning the sheets
Clean the sheets in time after the cat wets the bed, dip and wash the contaminated part of the inner core with baking soda, and then dry it on the balcony.
In addition to urea, urobilin, urobilinogen, uric acid, creatinine, and electrolytes, cat urine also contains Felinine and Cauxin.
The feline can be hydrolyzed into the pheromone MMB under the catalysis of carboxylesterase. Pheromone MMB[2]: 3-methyl-3-mercapto-1-butanol
The presence of MMB will make cats instinctively judge whether they need to refresh the urine to strengthen the smell and avoid the smell here disappear, must be cleaned.
Spray the repellant
After cleaning, you can spray some cat repellant for key areas Rejection agents usually contain allyl isothiocyanate (horseradish extract), peppermint oil, capsaicin, p-cymene, thymol, pine cypress oil, citronella, eucalyptus oil, etc.
You can also use the above essential oils instead. Cats don’t like these essential oils, but they taste good to people. Generally, they can keep for about 2 months after spraying.
Of course, the above-mentioned after-care methods only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. You can control the cat not to defecate in key areas, but you cannot monitor all places and prevent thieves every day.
So we must find the root cause of cat bedwetting and solve the problem from the root.
How to correct cat bedwetting
Defecation anywhere
The cat urinates on the bed, There are many reasons why cats don’t urinate in the litter box. They may not use the litter box, they may not want to use the litter box, or it may be inconvenient to use the litter box. The specific problem is solved in detail.
Stressed defecation type
The cat is scared to urinate, which is relatively easy to solve.
The direct method is to avoid the cat being frightened, to avoid the cat being exposed to external stimuli, and to isolate the cat before strangers come to the house.
The fundamental solution is to make cats often frightened, in short, to let cats see more of the world, often see cars, pedestrians, dogs, etc. the outside world, until these become common and frightened. It’s no longer a fright.
Marking to squirt
Sterilization cannot eliminate cat squirting behavior. Most squirting behaviors have nothing to do with sex hormones, but are often related to cat anxiety and frustration.
For socially frustrated cats, we can pay more attention to them and make them feel more confident and secure.
