How do you stop a cat from urinating on things left out?

Hi all. My cat has been urinating on some of our small hand/hair towels and papers left on the floor/tables/washing machine. He has been doing this for years and it's getting to a point where my parents are seriously considering euthanizing him. My dad absolutely hates him after he urinated on his boots from the US Navy and in our toaster oven.

The cat is quite evil. He was declawed but he gives nasty bites if angered, which is quite easy to do. We thought he urinated on things because of territory but that wasn't it. We then though it was because the litter box got full for a long time after that. Today he urinated on a small towel left on our bathroom floor. His litter box was not full.

Just want to mention that our house is not a pigsty or dirty. This doesn't happen all the time. We keep our house quite clean and we do put up stuff most of the time. My sister must have left the towel on the floor after getting out of the shower earlier.

It is getting tiresome and I'm embarrassed to ask publicly like this but could someone please explain why he is doing this and how to stop it? I don't want Furball put down! Please help!

 

Declawing a cat is cruel and can cause various behavioral issues including peeing outside the litterbox.
http://goodcatswearblack.com/declawing-issues/

If you and your family dont paticularly love the cat, I would suggest trying to find the cat a good home. Whatever you do, PLEASE do not euthanize him.

 

We had to declaw him because we have leather furniture. I love the cat and we do too. My dad is the one that hates him. That cat is quite evil though. I'm not using that word lightly. I've only scratched the surface of what he's done. He once bit my sister's friend for no reason and it looked like a rattlesnake bite according to the paramedics. He was ordered to be quarantined shortly afterwards.

Thanks for the info on declawing though. Never knew it caused behavior issues. It kinda explains a lot.

 

Is he a inside cat?

 

Yes

 

That could very well be the problem.

 

We let him out whenever he runs near the back door. We can't leave him out for too long because he will jump the fence. He will stop and freeze on the side of the house but still, it's quite scary.

 

So you mutilated a defenseless animal so that your furniture wouldn't get harmed? How about next time, you just don't get a pet. A cat is a living creature not a damn accessory. The reason your cat is "acting" out is because you abused him. You might not think that and it might have been a while since you declawed him, but he was permanently harmed by cutting off the first knuckle of each of his fingers. Guess what: cats remember trauma and they act out.

And quite frankly, I don't care how harsh you think I am being here, but it is much tamer than I want to be right now because I don't feel like getting banned.

 

I was going to post something similar. I never had a cat and just learned about declawing but the description of the procedure sounds horrible. Crippling an animal out of convenience? How can veterinarians even support that?

 

Woah, take it easy man. Why do SO many declawed cats act completely normal then? Is it just this ONE cat or something? I can understand what you are getting at, but when did he say he was not treating the cat as a pet?

 

is he de-sexed

 

There actually are legitimate reasons for declawing. Some cats have deformities, are prone to chronic claw infections or twisted/ripped out claws. However...

...doing it because of furniture is animal abuse, selfish and completely indefensible. The fact that some cats seem unaffected is irrelevant. That can also depend on how "good" of a job the vet does, the age it happened and whether or not the cat still feels safe or feels that it can defend itself. Since this cat is biting, it's because he doesn't feel safe and that he can't "defend" himself with his claws any more. This makes me think that it was a late declawing; that the cat knew how to use his claws to defend and had to drastically change that to biting.

 

Mairsil, I've got some words for you. We do treat our cat with love and as family. He was declawed about ten years ago. He's almost 12 years old now. We DO NOT abuse our cat or our two dogs. How dare anybody think that. I don't like it when my entire family is insulted like that. We had no idea declawing did anything and I doubt anyone did back then. The furniture was only part of it. Why don't you think before insulting people you jerk. I'm trying to save my cat's life not get attacked for asking how to stop him from peeing on stuff.

You obviously do not know what is really going on with him and don't know how to make him nicer. He hasn't peed on my stuff in many years. Just random stuff around the house and it isn't often. It just happened to have been on certain things that made my parents (mostly my dad) consider euthanizing.

Should you continue harassing me or my family, I will report you to the moderators for harassment. Heck, I may even file a police report if it gets really bad. Please do not respond in this thread any further. Thank you.

 

AH! Now that you say its an old cat, it might just be done with being nice and obedient, pretty much just not giving a damn anymore. Most animals come to that age in their life. Our eldest dog who is coming on 16, has been not responding to any time we try to call her (no, she is not deaf, had it tested) and walks wherever the heck she wants to. It could just be that?

 

Just as cruel as spaying/neutering a dog, which... Oh wait. Isn't cruel AT ALL.

 

Stopping a dog from fucking every female its sees whilst taking him for a walk is a little different from getting rid of a cats only defences imo.

That being said go see a behaviour specialist

 

It's cutting off half the fingers. The cat can no long climb, scratch himself, or defent himself among other things. It IS very cruel.

 

Oh trust me, my cat isn't defenseless. He leaves rattlesnake like bites that go deep.