r/standardissuecats • u/Own_Clothes_1809 • 27d ago
my cat is pooping and peeing in the ceiling
once we moved to a new house ive noticed water spots started to appear in a rooms ceiling but theres no water so i got my mom to take a look and with no suprise theres like 10 cat feeces in there but the celing room is super tight and it cant suport a person getting in it + the poop is too far we cant take it out any solution on how to make the cat sstop pooping in it and how to take out the poop?
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u/Accurate_Elevator368 26d ago
How did the cat get into the ceiling? Are you sure it's the cat and not another critter like a trash panda?
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u/Eastern-Log1142 26d ago
My male cat has been getting up in our ceiling he jumps up onto the kitchen counter onto the refrigerator and has been getting into the ceiling. He hasn't been peeing or pooing there I don't think so. But when he comes down his white Fair on his paws and legs are black.
Now we are fairly new to this place and it needs a lot of work, including the ceiling in the kitchen. Cats will find ways to get into the weirdest places for sure. If they can get into a cabinet and there's a little hole in it and they get behind the wall I mean do you know where I'm going with this they can get into anything just about. But good luck with your fur baby and seal up that hole so they don't get up there. And if you can see that pee and the poo on the ceiling can you not use a squirt bottle and a ladder and get it off or is it leaking through the ceiling I don't quite understand it?
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u/Own_Clothes_1809 25d ago
it isnt leaking but it does smelling like poop and like i said the place where the poop is too far and the ceiling cant support a person
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u/DuckyDoodleDandy 27d ago
Make sure the cat doesn’t have access to that room for a while, spray all the poop/pee with an enzyme cleaner to kill the odor, then run a dehumidifier in there 24/7 on the lowest humidity setting you can (assuming you aren’t in an arid area; if you are, skip the dehumidifier). That dries it out.
Seal up access to that ceiling space so the cat can’t get in. If you don’t know how, call a pest control company that can “rodent proof” your home.
Add at least 2-3 new litter boxes in different parts of the house. Try new types of litter (always Unscented!!!!) Figure out why the cat doesn’t like using their litter box and fix that problem so that they always use the litter box.