I have a seven week old kitten that I got last week and I was promised that she is litter trained. Unfortunately though she knows how to use the litter to pee, she uses my bed to do a poop. I keep on every time she sleeps or eats or does anything put her in her litter box and scratch her paws along the bottom and cleaning her tray out daily. So now really need advise as to stop her doing this. Can anyone help?
2006-10-09 02:42:05 · 17 answers · asked by Rowena E 1 in Pets ➔ Cats
Thank you all so much. This has been really helpful. I will keep an eye on her and perserve and hopefully she'll learn sooner rather than later! Thanks again everyone!
2006-10-09 04:03:20 · update #1
I breed cats and in my professional opinion you should not have the kitten at that age - it should still be with it's mother. However as you do have the kitten and it's clearly too late to rectify that, I would suggest either putting a litter tray in every room or shutting her in the room with the tray until she learns to use it for a poo as well. A house is a huge place for such a tiny creature and it may just be that she can't remember how to get it when she is upstairs or that she feels she won't get there in time. I would also suggest not cleaning the tray out every day. Although it's true that cats do like to go to the toilet in a clean tray, you might be keeping it so clean she can't smell where it is when she needs to go. The person who mentioned vaccination and worming is also quite right, she will need these done fairly soon - your vet will advise.
You may also find as your cat gets older that she dribbles, suckles at blankets etc and paws at you when you stroke her. These are all common signs when a kitten has been taken from it's mother too early but are nothing to worry about.
Hope this helps a bit!
2006-10-09 02:56:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
she is far far too young to ave left her mother and is suffering terrible emotionaly problems. The best advice would be to return her to her mother for another 3 weeks.
I get really enraged when people breed their cats without having the slightest clue about how to rear kittens. They cause enormous cruelty by taking the kittens away far too young. It isn't enough that the kitten is eating by itself, they still need to suckle until they are at least 9 or 10 weeks and learn to become properly independant. They aren't like puppies inasmuch as they are independant at 8 weeks.
Why on earth did you agree to take a 6 week old kitten? That is plain cruel. She should have been with her mother until she was 10 weeks old. Hoipefully the fool who has the female will have her spayed to prevent more litters being cruelly abused like this.
I would advise you to confine the kitten to a room with her bed, food,water and litter tray and do not allow her the run of the house.Quite simply, if she is sleeping on your bed, and wakes, needing to go, she will need to go RIGHT NOW!!! she is far to young to be able to hold it until she goes all the way to where her litter tray is.
2006-10-09 03:26:59 · answer #2 · answered by fenlandfowl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when she poops on the bed, you need to remove and wash the blankets/sheets immediately. At the very least spray some Lysol or other odor remover on the spot she pooped on.That way she doesn't have the reinforcement of smelling where she went wrong and thinking it's a spot to go again at. Gross as it sounds, pick up the poop w a paper towel and put it in the box with her at the same time.
It's going to be a pain in the patooties, but you have to eliminate the scent of where she's gone potty in error.
Give the gal some time... 7 weeks is young to get it all down correctly.
2006-10-09 04:59:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every time you even think that she looks like that shes ready to go put her in her litter tray and KEEP doing it,, she will soon learn, Kittens go a lot. Do it after each feed and kept putting her back in till she has done her poops
2006-10-09 02:47:35 · answer #4 · answered by chass_lee 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We used to put our kittens in the litter tray and let them sniff and play around. They loved the sound of the scratch and they just 'realised' what they were meant to do there.
But maybe she is struggling to poo - you know she just moved to a new place, new people around her and she doesn't know what to do!
If you see her doing a poo, you may want to pick her up and put her in the litter.
You have to get her to do it in the litter only once!
Best of luck!
2006-10-09 08:05:40 · answer #5 · answered by Petite K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some cats are picky about where they poop... and yours seems to be one of them. I would recommend getting a second litter box, placing it right next to the existing one. Keep her litter boxes clean every day, and you should notice an improvement in her behavior soon. My friends' cats exhibit this separate pee/poo litter box behavior and have found that the dual litter box has worked for them.
2006-10-09 02:52:16 · answer #6 · answered by polliwog81 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Unfortunately she needs to be confined to a small space until she uses the littbox consistently. That's really tough to do with a kitten because you want her around and don't want to restrict her and it is the only way to retrain.
At www.littlebigcat.com Dr. Jean Hovfe has four articles titled " Litterbox Secrets I-IV" and reading them over might give you some good tips on accomplishing your goal.
2006-10-09 02:50:36 · answer #7 · answered by old cat lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put her in the litter tray after every meal, this may encourage her to use it. She is very young to be taken away from her Mum so may not have learnt this yet, they aren't supposed to leave their Mum until they are at least 13 weeks of age.
2006-10-09 02:44:57 · answer #8 · answered by Stefanie C 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-16 00:08:17 · answer #9 · answered by lander 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well first keep her off your bed until she gets the hang of it pick up the poo and put it into the litter box then put her in there leave it in there for a day or two so when she goes to pee she will smell it in there and know thats where it belongs .....goood luck
2006-10-09 02:48:05 · answer #10 · answered by singleandback 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋