Hello,
I have an elderly cat, who has a litter tray upstairs in the bathroom. She has always had an interest in peeing in the hall at our front door on the mat, so we have removed it and generally there has only been the occasional pee, until recently.
Now she sleeps downstairs when she previously slept upstairs (her choice, because I moved my working desk downstairs) so she does all her business on the floor.
We put a litter tray and just accepted the inconvenience of it in our way and how gross a sight it is as you walk in, however she always misses the tray and it ends up on the floor anyway. So we tried a hooded one, and she just goes beside it. We tried putting puppy pads around, but she leaks through, so we change it daily and have to clean the floor anyway, same issue with the reusable ones. This cat pees more than any cat I have known.
Recently we tried removing it all and spraying some special cat urine odour remover. We listen for her walking in there and if we catch her we move her to the correct litter tray, but for example tonight I went for a shower and came back to pee and a poo.
She has been checked by the vet and there is no medical issue. She is just too lazy to go upstairs. How can I fix this? I'm at the end of my tether. My friend stayed last night and left a bag downstairs that the pee ran into, it was horrible!
Thanks.