You've got a little fluffy joy. Undoubtedly, the kitten will give you a lot of pleasant minutes and will present a cozy home. But this will take a little work. In addition, that you need to purchase various products for cats: bowls, toys, scratching, basket or stove, tray and filler to it, it is still necessary to teach the child various rules of behavior in the house. For example, to instill correct kitten habits of the toilet.
Cats are by nature veryclean animals. but because they usually immediately realize where to go in need. Most owners do not have difficulties with teaching the baby to the tray. However, all of the sudden you are faced with such a problem: he does it anywhere, but not where necessary. How to disaccustom the kitten in the wrong place? It is possible, but it will take some effort.
Experienced cat breeders and felinologists are categorically notrecommend to beat a cat, scream at it, splash water. All these actions will lead only to the fact that the kitten will perform its "deeds" secretly from you, for fear of such intense attention. To save your home and your own nervous system, you need to look for the reason that makes the baby use unintended places for the toilet. And it always is: physiological or psychological.
Problems with the tray
Perhaps the tray is small for an animal or, conversely, the walls are too high, it just can not jump up there.
It can also be such that the capacity sharplysmells of plastic or cleaning products, it is an inappropriate filler or it is located in an uncomfortable corner of the apartment. How to wean the kitten in the wrong place in such a case? Watching the pet, you will understand its difficulties. And you can pick up a suitable tray and a good filler. Do not wash the container with cleaning agents with a sharp chlorine or other odor. Do not forget to put a piece of paper in the tray, impregnated with urine or a fragment of feces. Your fuzzy, perhaps, just did not understand why this box. Own feces will help him navigate. If it's the shyness of the cat and the unfortunate location of the tray in a crowded place, look for something else. Sometimes this is impossible, then you need to use a different capacity, for example, a closed toilet for a cat - "house". In it, the animal will feel calm and more confident.
Disease, stress
There are often situations when health problemscause the cat's reluctance to use the tray. Especially alarming if the baby first did it properly, and then suddenly stopped. It can become a symptom of diseases of the genitourinary system, the appearance of constipation, intestinal parasites. It is best to visit a veterinarian. Sometimes stress causes a violation of toilet habits in cats, but with babies this happens less often. This is typical for adult pets, who either mark the territory by entering the adult age, or feel insecure for various reasons.
It can be a birth in the child's family, movingor even a rearrangement of furniture, the appearance of another animal in the house. How to disaccustom the kitten to shit in the wrong place, if the cause was stress? Experts recommend to limit the animal in a small space, and then as if to re-introduce your apartment gradually. Allow the pet to use cabinets and other tall pieces of furniture to rest, this will give the cat confidence.
General Tips
While you establish the cause and are struggling with it,takes some time, the kitten continues to spoil your things, carpets or parquet. In such circumstances, the following recommendations on how to wean a kitten in a wrong place, or, more precisely, how to discourage him from doing it in very inappropriate places, will do.
Put in the chosen corner of the apartmentsmall bowls of food - and the cat will not go to the toilet where there is food. It is possible to glue a bit of dry food onto pieces of cardboard and spread out in these places. Help scare the animal away from unauthorized places such pungent foods as citrus, coffee, vinegar. Also, special means are used to destroy the smell of cat urine.
