A cat is coming into my home and urinating

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I am so upset that a cat is coming into my house that I don't know and urinating.

I've noticed a random cat keeps being in my garden all the time and I noticed when getting home I keep smelling cat urine.

At first I thought it was my own cat urinating around the house but tonight whilst out I saw on my cameras it a cat walking around my house I don't know!!!

So now it makes sense - a random cat is coming into my home and urinating.

I'm so upset I could cry. Has this happened to anyone? I don't want to get rid of a flap as I hate litter trays but this is too much for me and now put me on a real downer.

I'm so upset.

Get a black light torch if you can't pin point where the smell is coming from.

But you said you don't have a litter tray because you hate them.

Honestly, all you need to do it sort out your microchip cat flap, then only your cat will be able to use it!

@shouldistop like I said, if it were up to me I wouldn't have my cat either! So actually, I'm not going To continue defending my cat lol. I don't like cats period.

Anyway like other posters said ultimately I have to take responsibility and sort out my flap and clean up. Not much I can do beyond that.

Microchip flap but you realise a cat should always have a litter tray available to it in the house, even if you have a cat flap and the cat usually goes outside?

Get your husband to sort to the microchip, it's his cat, he can sort it and then problem solved. You do come across as a tad melodramatic

So upset I could cry
Honestly cut up about it
Made me physically sick
Why anyone would keep something so disgusting in their home

etc. etc.

You don't seem to get what im saying. You should have a litter tray. It's the responsible thing to do. Your dh can empty it.

@FuckyouCovid21 I was in the heat of the moment and very angry. Perhaps melodramatic yes. Well I've calmed down now and you are correct I agree DH can sort. It's his issue but also affects me so I will also do what I can.

You're overeacting OP. Lock the flap for a month or so, get a tray for now. You let your animal roam so you can't get annoyed at someone else doing it. You have no idea what your cat gets up to when she's out.

You cant have a flap because you can't be bothered with stuff like opening doors and litter trays, as well as can't be arsed to make sure interior doors are closed then complain that a cat is doing what comes naturally to the bugger. It doesn't work like that.

@shouldistop I didn't realise there should still be a tray. I don't have the responsibility of looking after it he sorts most things to do with the cat but I will make this suggestion thank you

Get a dog, ideally a terrier. When I had my lakeland terriers, no cat would dare venture into my garden, let alone my house.

Incidentally, this is what Bob Flowerdew of Gardener's Question Time recommends to stop cats shitting in your garden.

It's quite funny because there is a ginger cat in my street and it came in the open back door, ate my cats food (that they had turned their nose up at) and then did a pee in the litter tray!. Treating my house like a hotel .

My microchip flap keeps them out as long as the doors to outside are shut enough that they can't fit through the gap.

Not-my-cat wanting in the door and catflap

Look at that cat acting like he owns the place

Don’t understand some of the snarky comments on here. Glad to see OP getting some good advice.

OP I feel your pain.

There is a local cst useing out front garden as a toilet. Daily. Yesterday I picked up several piles of shit. I nearly puked. It's fucking horrible and short of getting a dog there's sod all day can do. And many cat owners find it soooii hilarious.

So if it was happening in my home - Jesus I think I would cry. So I can totally see how it all got on top of you snd you were so upset for a while.

Agree though your DH needs to get on the case with car litter for his because as others have pointed out it's very likely it's shitting in some poor buggers garden.

Cat litter even. Do not suggest it shits in his car

@InglouriousBasterd me too, I was fully sympathetic until that last bit.

I would love this to happen to my neighbour whose cat comes to poop in my garden as they can't be bothered to get a litter tray. Pure karma!
Get rid of your flap, get a litter tray and stop being a nuisance neighbour. If you can't be bothered to clean after your pet, you should not have one.

Can most cats be trained to poop in a litter tray?

@tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz thank you. I am more rational about it today lol but it just all got to me.

And posters keep pointing out its karma - it isn't though.

The cat is NOT mine it's DH. If it were up to me I would not have it!!!!

Microchip cat flap otherwise it’s the litter trays. You can’t have a random cat urinating in your house, it’s so unhygienic.

OP I get you and how frustrating it was when you found the random cat has been urinating in your house. It’s understood you wrote some things out of frustration, as you’ve pointed out. Other posters not seeing you’ve acknowledged that.

We had similar in our last house. We had two cats, both neutered/spayed and we had a random Tom coming into our house, not only urinating/spraying but also beating up our two cats. As we state closing our kitchen door (flap was in kitchen) we had to go in there to break up fights. We then put in a chip flap but the Tom (quite big and sturdy cat) broke the new flap! We had to put some wood temporarily over the flap and had our cats meow at the window to be let in/out for a few months, which ultimately broke the cycle of the Tom coming into our house.

Funny thing about this time, I was having great difficulty with my DS leaving clothes on the floor. Repeatedly asking him to hang his coat, put his hoodies away etc. One morning we came downstairs to find the Tom had been in and peed on DS school blazer. Very wet. My DS only noticed once he put it on, totally grossed him out. DS never left his clothes on the floor downstairs again (his room was another matter though).

A few years ago we had a cat coming into our house via the two cat flaps [one in back porch and one in back kitchen door]. It was eating our cats' food and also fighting with them in our conservatory!!! Luckily the majority of the cat fur was a different colour and wasn't from out cats!!!!

We changed a cat flap to one operated by microchips and have never had the problem again. Sadly our dopey cat is too frightened to use the replacement cat flap so he has trained us to let him in and out via the front door - otherwise he yowls.... LOL

I have a microchip cat flap, and once it's been 'trained' it is very good at keeping out my neighbours cats. The only problem is the button presses required to toggle between the various modes are quite arcane, and you can accidentally set it to 'everyone in mode'. That's also it's fail back mode in the event of power interruption or low backup battery, so you can also be caught out that way.

The inbound latch is a bit weak too - it can be dislodged by a determined cat running at the door and giving it a good shoulder charge.

Oh and my vets do routinely check the condition of my cats' microchips as part of their vaccination appointment, so that's once a year.