What can I do with my PissyCat, it keeps pissing in the sink when there's a perfectly good cat tray to use.

[PissyCat]

What should I do with my pissycat?

Cat has been happy to use the cat tray for over a year. I have 2 so not sure which one is doing it.

What can I put in kitchen sink to deter cat apart from a large cactus plant. It appears to only like going in the small sink/drainer as its a double bowl sink.

Left the kitchen cloth in it which was proof enough (cloth now in bin for those thinking I might use it).

I have name changed because I am ashamed of the pissycat!

[PissyCat]

I thought you fly ladies might know of some good tips like fragrant smells the deter cats off things?

[EscapeFrom]

fill it with cat food for a couple of days.

[PissyCat]

EscapeFrom - won't it just get very fat? Or is that reverse sicology by putting something nice in the sink?

[vonsudenfed]

Is there any reason why they might be doing this - is some other cat coming and standing on the windowsill or something?

That's why my cat did it for ages (on the back of the armchair, mmm).

The advice I got was to make sure you get rid of all of the smell, otherwise it just keeps coming back to mark again. So wash well with biological washing powder, then wipe down with some neutral alcohol (I used surgical spirit, I hear vodka will do!), Keep doing this and it will eventually give up.

The other good stuff is Feliway, which is artificial cat hormones which stop them getting upset about this kind of thing. The vet sells them, I used a spray, but I think you can get it as some kind of air freshener thing now too.

But they will give up - mine did it for six months at the most, and then stopped, lived for another six years and never did it again!

[pirategirl]

If my cat gets caught short at night she goes in the sink. Yet this is about once every fortnight.

I took away her litter tray about 6 months ago, and she's normally always out at night.

It is preferable, because before that she was going in the fuit bowl !!!!!!

I cant say why your pissycat wont go in the tray now. Maybe somecats think trays are dirty, once they have soiled it?? You cant be emptying every day tho, can you, cost a fortune in litter.

Try lemony type cleaner, or eucalyptus oil in the bowl, to put the cat off maybe.

????

[vonsudenfed]

The catfood will also work - cats don't wee where they eat. Sensible creatures.

[ggglimpopo]

Whatabout leaving a couple of cms of water in the sink when not in use?

[EscapeFrom]

Not really reverse psychology, just that it will stop being a 'toilet' place in your cat's brain, and become a 'food' place

[PissyCat]

Thanks for all your good ideas.

[hex]

someone told me polo mints do the trick to deter cats but never tried it...and don't cats roll about in mint plants?

if it's any consolation, when I moved in with dp, and took cat with me, he used to straddle one of dp's walking boots, look him directly in the eye and wee in it! DP was horrified!

[Leati]

When you go to sleep at night lock her in the restroom with the litterbox. Make sure you get rid of the scent and if you catch her anywhere in the near the sink, use a spray bottle and squirt her with water.

[bananabump]

I think the simplest solution would be to stick the plug in, fill the sink with a nice bubbly solution of citrus smelling washing up liquid or flash. There's no way pissycat would want to pee in there because what they're looking for is a nice dry safe place to do it.

But make sure the catlitter tray is clean and accessible for him before you go to bed.

Cats are weird aren't they? perhaps (seeing as yours is so talented) you shold invest in a citykitty toilet trainer

Think city kitty might have been slightly the wrong word here...

[PissyCat]

Well I cleaned the conservatory from top to bottom, wiped all surfaces and made sure litter tray was like new, cleaned and wiped. Washed all bedding ect and it appears to have helped. pisscat was using the tray again and hopefully will be OK.

I have been using lots of floral smelly stuff down the sink!

I rememebered a cat had come in the back door, as I heard a little fight last week and when I looked the fur was a different colour, so couldn't have been my 2, but another cat must have walked in and scared this timid one.

Thanks again.

[PissyCat]

bananabump thanks, my thoughts were to direct pissycat to downstairs loo, but its not that clever .

[ladylush]

What a clever cat - it's using your sink like a toilet! Maybe you could train it to use the toilet

[bananabump]

I'm not sure I'd have wanted to share the loo with our cat when we had him, he didn't have the best aim (well, he was HE after all) and I still have traumatic memories of the time he had diarrhea and absolutely pebbledashed the kitchen wall.

Can you imagine someone coming round and asking to use the loo just after our cat? And they'd never believe you if you blamed the cat would they? No, not a good idea.

[ladylush]

Hell it can't be much worse than my toddler.

[edam]

Hex, lol at the walking boots. Do you think cat was marking its territory i.e. this woman is MINE, mine do you hear?

Glad to hear pissycat is returning to litter tray, btw. We had one that used to climb in the bath and pee directly over the plug hole. Had to admire her logic, but yee-uck.