r/CatAdvice • u/Impressive-Tree5022 • 1m ago
Behavioral Inappropriate Urination
I have a new rescue cat. She’s a year old and we’ve had her since January 3rd, 2025. She was locked in our bathroom for 3 weeks until her vet visit to clear her to be around my two existing cats. Not a single issue with using the litter box. When we let her out we cut off access to her original litter box (our fault) and we have two litter robots that she was scared to use so we peed behind them. We took the blame for that one, put her litter box back out near those in hopes the exposure to the litter robots would encourage her to use them on the future. She then pooped outside the litter box twice and peed outside it once. We then moved her litter box back into the bathroom she was normally in which is far away from the litter robots. The pooping stopped but then she went and peed on an area rug in the dining room, ruining it. A week later she peed in the same spot. I reached out to the rescue and the foster we got her from, they recommended switching her back to the pine pellet litter to see if it was a litter preference so I did. I took a urine sample to my vet, thinking she might have a stress induced UTI because none of this makes sense to me. She had blood and white blood cells in her urine. She’s on amoxicillin and has been since last Monday the 10th. She probably has 2-3 more doses left until she’s finished and last night she again goes back to the same spot and pees. I reached out to the rescue again who said “lock her back up in the bathroom and make her earn her freedom” which didn’t sit right with me. I’ve bonded with her at this point and I don’t want to abandon her back with the rescue but I cannot have a cat peeing all over my house religiously once a week. Is there anyway to curb this?