Ever since we adopted our cat, she always has peed on the edge of the litterbox. This was ongoing for 6 years. On a whim, I bought finer litter and she stopped this behaviour immediately. Just thought I’d share.
I got a really tall sided one. And decent dimensions. Target sells a decent priced covered one. I have two of them.
One of my cats always pees right at the corner entrance.
Poops farther in. But always urinates right at the front.
Weirdo.
Although I’m generally boycotting target. I did buy my litter boxes there because it was like $20 less than other places for the same size litter box.
This one is $26 plus tax.
https://www.target.com/p/enclosed-cat-litter-box-gray-xl-up-38-up-8482/-/A-87059441
What companies call “XL” is just an appropriate sized box. These are not gigantic or anything.
The latches on the side are not strong and I would just not use them. I leave mine unsnapped so I can take the hood off to make it easy to clean it. It definitely is not intended to be able to pick up the whole thing, with litter inside it, relying on those clips.
- Also neither of my cats like the swing doors so I popped them off. They still work decently to keep litter in.
It can be the litter, the size of the box or maybe a roof would be advisable. They can be picky 😁
Had an old guy that needed a bigger box to poop in because he couldn’t tell his butt was outside the box haha. [he lost his tail when he was little]
Well that sentence was a roller coaster!
It was a racoon fight. [he lost]
We had to buy a litterbox that was covered just so it had walls for her to hit. Always peed sideways right on to the wall.
Yeah, we were able to deal with (not solve entirely) this issue with a litterbox with tall walls. Covered was next, I just didn’t want to do covered. I have no rationale for this decision, like many of my decisions in life.
My first cat started doing that because he was too old and arthritic to squat down as far as he needed. I fixed the problem by making a high sided litterbox from a storage bin. I cut a big hole in the side and put edge liner around the new opening so there wasn’t anything sharp.
I also had this problem, and in my case, it was just that my cats are enormous and needed a bigger box
We had two boys who would start their pee in a squat and then stand up mid pee and keep going. We wound up with a giant Rubbermaid style container for the box and that took care of the problem.
There’s a guy on YouTube that covers litter boxes for cats that do that.
