With Summer Comes Territorial Urine Marking

Why cats are more likely to mark their territory in warm weather — and how to keep it from happening.

Published: July 26, 2023

bigstock-Two-Cats-Look-Out-Through-Wind-474602531 — ©Marina Demidiuk| Bigstock If your cat sees other cats coming around, he might “draw  a line” in the sand, so to speak, to mark the space as his.

There are four main reasons cats will urinate outside the litterbox. The first is litterbox aversion, meaning that a cat finds her “toilet” unacceptable. Perhaps you only have one litterbox in the house when you should have two (three, if you have two cats). Or maybe you are not using unscented, finely grained litter — a cat’s preferred type. (They evolved in the desert so like to relieve themselves where it feels sandy.) Or maybe the litter is too shallow. All these impediments are easily fixed.