Expert: Brandy - 12/29/2006

Question
Hi ! I need help bad . I own two cats both female both from the same litter about seven months old. My cats are not fixed and have alot of personality and are well cared for and very much loved, their names are biscuits and gravy .Biscuits is my bad kitty and her problem is that she will pee and poop all over my house even though she has a perfectly clean and very nice litter box availible to her. This is driving me bonkers please reply and help me I am scared that I might have to get rid of her if things dont change soon  or a solution is not found ! help!

Answer
Seven month old kittens, are, in my opinion, similar to human 'tweens, the weirdest phase of children. The girls are going through puberty, hormones are exerting their influence (if she's peeing ON TOP of furniture, that's how females in heat mark that they're in heat).

As for the pooping, the most basic things I can think of is that she may be turning into one of those eccentric personalities where she needs her own litterbox, or she's decided that what you use for litter, or where the litterbox is located is suddenly so not to her liking.  I started out, many, many years ago with one cat using an uncovered box with clumping litter; now it's three boxes (miraculously small number considering I have 4 Maine Coons), two covered, one not (that they save for the poop), and with pine litter (smells a whole lot better). Hey, as long as they use the litterbox, I'll deal with the idiocyncrasies.

Try seeing if the addition of another litterbox, even positioned next to the original one, will suffice. Don't give up on her yet.