A Cat Problem

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What do you do if your cat pee on your stuff?

Not me, but a friend would give his cat a bath.

It seemed to discourage the behaviour

If its a male he might be marking his territory and maybe needs to be neutered.

Cats urinate on things for a few reasons.

1. If it's a male cat, they will spray to mark their territory if they are not neutered. Having male cats neutered will stop or greatly limit this behavior. Neutered male cats who did not have a habit of spraying typically don't spray unless they feel insecure....for example, another cat starts coming around the house.

2. They have a medical issue such as a urinary tract infection, bladder infection, kidney infection or problems, diabetes, or a blockage they have difficulty passing.

3. They are discontent with their litter box, either because it's not kept clean enough or they don't like the location of the litter used.

4. They feel insecure. If you have been hostile to your car or are treating your cat differently than usual, or you have made a change to your living situation or schedule, or someone even bought new furniture or moved existing furniture around, or if someone new is in the house, whether person or another animal, or another animal has been coming around the house, the cat may start to feel insecure may begin to urinate outside of the litter box because cats say "This is mine and I belong here" by marking territory.

Solution:

1. Take your cat to the vet to be checked for the conditions I mentioned, and neutered if it's an unneutered male. If everything comes back fine...

2. If there have been changes to the cat's litter box such as location or litter type, revert to the previous configuration. If you have not been cleaning the litter as much as usual, start doing so again.

3. If you think your cat feels insecure, what you do about this is, instead of scold the cat for urinating where it is not supposed to, be extra kind to the cat and give the cat reassuring attention. Your goal is to make the cat feel secure again.

Additionally, purchase some enzym based cat urine remover. You can order "Nature's Miracle Cat Urine Destroyer online" and use that to treat anything your cat has urinated on.

What do you do with your things that cat pee on? Do you throw them away? Or wash them very good.

Agreed as above, if male, neuter.

Also as a preventative, cats hate lemons (or anything citrusy tbh). Spray lemon in areas where the cat has pee'd or likely to pee. (Doesn't work with all cats)

This depends on what it is the cat has peed on and how bad it smells. Things like bedding and clothes can be washed with some strong detergent and high temps. Mattresses/carpets/sofa's ect can be steam cleaned.

I know this doesn't apply to the OPs cat but me & my girlfriend adopted a pregnant cat & she sh!t in the bathtub the night we got her cuz she was wanting to give birth in her catlitter box. We've noticed that unless there's a medical reason like leaking cuz of a bladder infection, the cats we've had would go in the bathtub when they didn't use the litter box cuz it was dirtier or something than they liked.

Use an enzyme cat urine remover like the one I recommended.

If you don't wash it or throw it out eventually you will get use to the smell and will no longer smell cat piss and you will think it has gone but every visitor you have will be able to smell it.