Why is my cat peeing on the dirty laundry???

[Disney1fan2002]

OMG!! I will have a cat up for adoption soon.

My laundry is down in the cellar. A few feet away is the cat's litterbox (under the utility shelf).

The kids will dump their dirty laundry on the floor in front of the washer and dryer. When I go to sort them into piles, I am overwhelmed with the smell of cat urine. On the light colored clothes and white towels and sheets, I can see the urine!!!!

OK, her litter box is inches away, but she prefers to settle in on top of a pile of clothes and pee? Looks like she is only using the litter box to poop.

Time to get a tall hamper I guess.

 

[MichelleVW]

OMG!! I will have a cat up for adoption soon.

My laundry is down in the cellar. A few feet away is the cat's litterbox (under the utility shelf).

The kids will dump their dirty laundry on the floor in front of the washer and dryer. When I go to sort them into piles, I am overwhelmed with the smell of cat urine. On the light colored clothes and white towels and sheets, I can see the urine!!!!

OK, her litter box is inches away, but she prefers to settle in on top of a pile of clothes and pee? Looks like she is only using the litter box to poop.

Time to get a tall hamper I guess.

I have one little girl cat that will pee on my husbands dirty clothes whenever she gets the chance! So, we pretty much don't ever give her the chance anymore. The hamper has a lid so she can't get in there anymore, and as soon as he comes home from work he puts his dirty gym clothes in the washing machine because if he doesn't she will pee in his gym bag. She ONLY pees on his clothes, no one elses...it's so weird. She never pees on clean clothes, and not on my clothes...mostly his smelly gym clothes, so we just have to take a few minutes extra to keep the clothes out of her reach and the problem is solved.

 

[Bell30012]

In addition to getting a taller hamper, change scents of litter. If a cat doesn't like the smell of the litter it won't use it unless it HAS to such as for number 2.

 

[cornflake]

Is the litter clean? She may be commenting on your housekeeping skills.

 

[MichelleVW]

In addition to getting a taller hamper, change scents of litter. If a cat doesn't like the smell of the litter it won't use it unless it HAS to such as for number 2.

My mom's cats are picky about litter, but thankfully mine don't care and will use whatever is on sale!

I wouldn't just get a taller hamper though...I would get a lid, because I have a tall hamper and my teeny 5 pound cat is the one that will jump in there and pee and she can jump into the tall hampers easily.

 

[marmalade]

My cat started doing this with the bath mat at first. I finally realized I couldn't have a rug in my bathroom and had to use towels like they do in hotels. Once I removed his spot from the bathroom he went after anything that didn't make it in the hamper. I just had to make sure the kids didn't leave towels on the bathroom floor and that all clothes were in the hamper.

I can't even tell you how many towels and sweatshirts I had to throw away because cat urine is one thing that you can never fully remove the smell. No matter how many washes.

 

[kimmar067]

....at least she's not peeing on the CLEAN laundry....

 

[MichelleVW]

My cat started doing this with the bath mat at first. I finally realized I couldn't have a rug in my bathroom and had to use towels like they do in hotels. Once I removed his spot from the bathroom he went after anything that didn't make it in the hamper. I just had to make sure the kids didn't leave towels on the bathroom floor and that all clothes were in the hamper.

I can't even tell you how many towels and sweatshirts I had to throw away because cat urine is one thing that you can never fully remove the smell. No matter how many washes.

Really? I've never noticed cat urine smell after I wash the clothes. I'm pretty weird about how my laundry smells too and am always smelling it to make sure it smells clean.

 

[marmalade]

Really? I've never noticed cat urine smell after I wash the clothes. I'm pretty weird about how my laundry smells too and am always smelling it to make sure it smells clean.

I had a male, maybe his was stronger. But as soon as you would start to use a contaminated towel and it started to get wet the smell always returned. No matter how many washes the smell always lingered.

Or maybe I just need a new washing machine.

 

[LJRJR]

I have this problem too. Two times my cat went on my husbands work pants that he left on the floor. Both times they had his wallet in the back pocket Needless to say, his pants dont get left on the floor anymore. Every few months, he will go on the bathmat or a pile of dirty laundry. Luckily, I have hardwood floor and tiles, so it is never a surface that cant be completely cleaned. Of course, I am very unhappy about this but I make sure nothing is left on the floor. I think that he is picky about the litter, and how often the box is completely cleaned out and refilled. I have two cats the one that is doing this I got when he was only 3 weeks old, so I dont know if has to do with the fact that he never was really around his mom and new born kitten family.

Good luck!

 

[Mrs.Malone]

I had a male, maybe his was stronger. But as soon as you would start to use a contaminated towel and it started to get wet the smell always returned. No matter how many washes the smell always lingered.

Or maybe I just need a new washing machine.

Yes, the smell really does depend on the cat. Age and gender can make a big difference.
Or maybe you do need a new washing machine!

 

[MichelleVW]

I had a male, maybe his was stronger. But as soon as you would start to use a contaminated towel and it started to get wet the smell always returned. No matter how many washes the smell always lingered.

Or maybe I just need a new washing machine.

ew yeah...I would throw that stuff away too...because cat pee is GROSS!!

 

[katibosch]

She may have a UTI. My cat (older female) gets them sometimes. She gets antibiotics at the vet and is fine, for a while at least.

It might be worth a trip to the vet to check it out. Although I have had cats that just never did use the litter box no matter what we did. Had to send them to someone where they could be outside cats.

 

[kimmar067]

ew yeah...I would throw that stuff away too...because cat pee is GROSS!!

.... spoken like a TRUE DOG OWNER....







































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[MichelleVW]

.... spoken like a TRUE DOG OWNER....

Lol....the cats outnumber the dogs in my house! 4 cats and "only" 3 dogs!

 

[CurlyGirl]

Odoban is the bomb for anything that an animal has urinated on! Takes the smell right out!

 

[hereyago]

Because with cats: it's their world and they just let us live in it. lol

 

[Princess_Meghan <3]

She could have a UTI.

One of our cats was peeing in the laundry baskets and dirty laundry if it was in there. We took him to the vet, and he had a UTI. He went on medicine for it, but after he was off, it started all over again. He now has to eat a special diet, consisting of wet food that helps with UTIs. He hasn't had a problem since starting his new diet.

The vet told us that the litter irrtated him because of the UTI, and that's why he was going in the basket and on the clothes. You might want to take her in and have her checked out, because that could be the problem.

 

[kimmar067]

Lol....the cats outnumber the dogs in my house! 4 cats and "only" 3 dogs!

...meow, meow, meow, meow, woof, woof, WOOF!

 

[Diznygrl]

I have a cat who has no problem with using the litter box, but for some reason any cloth or clothing that is left on the floor becomes very desirable for him to pee (or poo!) on. So I just make sure clothes don't lay on the floor.