Are there any door mats the cat won't pee on?

[HelloCheekyCat]

When we got the cat we had a nice thick coir door mat by the back door, which is very close top her litter tray. She peed on it on day one but that's because she couldn't work out the litter tray (DH bought a fancy one with a lid 😆) . she then peed on it again a few weeks later but we thought it was because her litter tray might have been too wet. After that it was gross so we binned it.
Bought a replacement coir mat with a cat on which looks like our cat. Which she peed on today.
Is it because they were coir and nice and bristly which she mistakes for litter, or does she just have a thing for peeing on mats 😆
Picture of said cat looking all cute and innocent 😻

Mine goes for bath mats. I can’t have a thick fluffy one but I can have a thin fluffy one as long as I drape it over the tub edge between uses. Try a different texture door mat. Your cat has decided coir at the door is for peeing.

My husband doesn’t remember to drape bathmats so I buy cheap ones and just use a towel when a bathmat gets destroyed.

In my experience no, shame with bath mats

Try a washable one; Temu do them (the shame)!

Every now and again one of our cats pees on the door mat, absolutely no rhyme or reason to it. Lovely clean litter tray right at the side. It’s not a regular thing but it’s so frustrating! If anyone does know why or have any suggestions, I’m all ears too!

So far the heavy duty, rubber backed, super absorbant Mibao mat from Amazon is pee free. It feels like very thin carpet so has zero appeal to any of them.
Coir mats never survive. Bath mats also need hung. Different cats use them.
A third uses the litter trapper mat.

@ImNoSuperman that mat looks like the one we have at the front door which she’s never shown interest in, so I’ll get one. Thank you
luckily our cat doesn’t really go in the bathroom so the bath mat has been safe. Definitely not letting her in after reading this 🤣

@HelloCheekyCat I had one who started peeing in the bath when she had cystitis, it was cooling for her.

I've always left them in the bathroom but I was grateful for that or she would have suffered so much without me ever knowing otherwise. Would never have seen blood in the litter (plant based).

Neither her or her sister ever peed on mats though, just the delinquents I have now do.

I’d cut up a small square from old wee’d on door mat and place in her litter box. Then have no replacement door mat.

After a week or so, when she is reliably wee ing in the litter box, move it slowly, like 10cm every 2 days to a different spot where there is no mat

She may not like the feel of the cat litter too. See if you can get the kind that absorbs and self clumps so it is never wet and is low on dust/perfume.

You mentioned “one of our cats”
It is quite common for some cats to not like to share a litter box. So to show their grumpiness they will wee on the outside of it, or right by it to “scent” the litter box as their property.

Other cat will come and wee over their wee. As a hah, that’s what you think this is MY litter box.

The best way to avoid this is to have 1 litter box per cat, placed in different spots.

I didn't realise that peeing on bath mats was a thing. Mine have also gone on towels, left on the floor by my teenager.
When I'm on the toilet, they come in, and wee in the bath, straight down the plug hole.
I thought my pair were just bathroom obsessed weirdos!

I had a cat that liked to wee on bed pillows, or crawl under the duvet and wee the bed. That was a massive challenge.

Oh god mine has weed on every doormat I've ever bought and I've tried so many kinds! We're getting to winter and can't go without one, the hall floor is just getting covered in mud. I think I'm going to buy a second mat and just rotate them.

We can't figure out why she does it, we've tried everything. She's just old. I remember the very first time she did it, in our old place a neighbour got a new cat that came and sat outside our front door and I guess it spooked her because that's when she started weeing there. We've since moved, none of the neighbours have cats, and she still does it by the front door.

You need an enzymatic cleaner formulated to deal with cat urine. Dispose of the soiled mat and clean the floor with the cleaner. The urine will have soaked through and tainted the laminate flooring.

Weeing in the bath drain seems kind of cleanish? As long as everyone knows to clean it before a bath or shower 😂

We have tiles rather than laminate, and I mopped with anti bac and DH sprayed with listerine and the cat litter tray cleaner and it no longer smells luckily.
Like @Swearwolf we need a mat for wiping our feet so I ordered one recommended above from Amazon which will be here tomorrow which hopefully she won't want to pee on!

@LoremIpsumCici I'm not sure how I would have coped with a cat peeing in/on the bed 😩