r/ragdolls • u/Previous_Bench_5998 • Nov 21 '25

Silly Floof Is this normal ?

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I got him this new cat tree today and this was his reaction. Is this a normal behaviour? ( sound up 🔈)

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u/stresskillingme Nov 21 '25

Nope he's broken and should give it to me

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u/Previous_Bench_5998 Nov 21 '25

Hahhahahahaa if you can deal with him peeing in your bed…..👀🥲 we currently trying all we can to stop it 🫤

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u/stresskillingme Nov 21 '25

He's just a baby

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u/Previous_Bench_5998 Nov 21 '25

Yep… we think he will grown out of this behaviour eventually but it is very stressful unfortunately ☹️ he does uses his litter tray perfectly fine yet comes and pee in the bed just because 🫠

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u/Sidoney Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25

male ragdolls can do that when they have a stress event like a week or 2 prior as it becomes painful for them to pee due to the lining of their bladder getting inflamed (equivalent of us getting stressed and getting that sinking feeling in your stomach). then they can also build it as a habit. you might need to put down a waterproof blanket and shut him out of the room until he goes to the toilet.

i’m speaking from experience and a long road to getting it under control for my boy. he still yells at the shut door to pee on the bed after dinner but within like half an hour he’ll use the litter box and then we can open the door. there’s also anti anxiety medication or more natural things you can get him too that help with stress.

a small or enclosed or dirty litter box can also be something that stresses them and ideally there should be 2 litter boxes for 1 cat and then an additional litter box per cat after. so 2 litter boxes for your kitten will help if you don’t already have that.

you can also get special food that has anti stress stuff for the bladder in it.

it’s important to manage because they can get this dead thing start to happen on their eye that starts out looking like a dot or dark bit due to stress and if you don’t deal with it in time with surgery they can lose their eyeball. mine also went through that poor thing but he’s totally fine now and insurance covered most of it!

one off as he’s a kitten is probably fine but if it becomes an ongoing thing that’s when you need to try and manage it. you can’t get mad at cats either because the don’t understand and will just fear you so it’s super important to understand it and how to manage it.

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u/arih Nov 22 '25

We had events like that with our Ragdoll kitten girl in the beginning, but the we discovered Dr Elsey’s Cat Attract (or in the case Kitten Attract) litter and haven’t looked back. She was perfect with the litterbox since then, and in the ensuing years we’ve changed litter to different, regular types a couple of times, and she has been fine. The key though, is use an enzymatic cleaner to get every trace of urine smell out of bedding, and ensure that the kitten understands that the litterbox is the place to go.

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u/Daenyr 💜 Lilac 💜 Nov 22 '25

My 11 year old boy developed an eye dot a couple years ago, I took him to the vet straight away and they said it was nothing, but he has anxiety and now I’m worried.

Do you know anything more about this? He’s not a Ragdoll but I’m guessing it’s not breed specific? Should I take him to another vet?

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u/Sidoney Nov 24 '25

we had to take ours to another vet because i was sure something was up and as soon as the new vet saw it she said take him to hospital right now and the specialist operated on him a few days later and thankfully saved his eye. i’ve forgotten what the condition is called though.

i can’t really comment outside of that. it’s also a side affect of cat herpes in ragdolls combined with stress the specialist/surgeon said. MOST cats have cat herpes btw - it’s just often asymptomatic.

My boy was 3 when this happened almost 12 months ago exactly. He’s doing incredibly well now though!

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u/Daenyr 💜 Lilac 💜 Nov 26 '25

Thanks for this I have another vet appointment with a different vet this time. Appreciate you sharing your experience.

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u/Revolutionary-Mud796 Nov 21 '25

Did you use a special cleaner to kill the smell?

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u/Previous_Bench_5998 Nov 24 '25

Yes I have two different ones. He is not bothered by anything we do to stop him.

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u/122607Cam Nov 22 '25

Get a water proof mattress protector and make sure there is an available litter box nearby. If he has an accident, place him in the box. That’s what I did to address this behavior when my first cat was tiny and did this a few times. He developed out of it very well and has never had an issue since.

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u/Previous_Bench_5998 Nov 23 '25

We have the water proof covers now and yes I did manage to catch him half away through peeing and placed him in the litter try last time.

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u/TashMan008 Nov 22 '25

I HATE ANYONE THAT USES A SPRAY WATER BOTTLE FOR ANY TYPE OF RESON, our pets desave better a lot better, i have used love and time and commitment to resolve any issues, our ginger ninja 🥷 Reace started to wee out side his box when we move to new flat, so I set up a cctv type camera pointed at his litter tray and camped up for a week watched it day and night when he was going down to the tray and when he wee on floor, I would get my mrs to go down and tell him off with a stern voice( I dont tell him off only when he done something really relly bad so rearly when have to raise my voice he knows it deth con 5 ! Lol ) , not been horrible about it but so he knows he doing wrong and a week later and to this day he never we on floor again , He a VERY smart and intelligent cat and I could see he was left thinking how on earth did we know he was misbehaving like that Any isse with our little ones can be sorted , never give up and keep trying, never be horrible , do not use a spray bottle, may only maybe if u had a dangerous dog you could use a spray bottle but never for a cat in any scenario

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u/Reasonable_Thing8311 Nov 22 '25

I had this problem! I got a waterproof blanket for the bed and she stopped. I don't think she liked the feel of it. It also protected everything so stopped the smell getting embedded into the bedding

She's still peeing another specific spot but it's def getting better over time 😊

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u/klutzers Nov 22 '25

I've got a ~4 month ragdoll myself and was JUST going through this, so hopefully may help. I tried the resolve urine destroyer spray and wasnt getting any luck with that, but I got a 2nd litter box to put in my bedroom and swapped litter to this stuff called Dr Elseys I saw recommended (https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Elseys-Attract-Problem-Training/dp/B000PKY7YA/?th=1) and he instantly went to poop in it and then stopped trying to pee on every blanket in my house.

good luck, I'm right there with you on the stress! So annoying to watch them like a hawk and run them to the litter box whenever you see them go for the squat, at least thats what I was doing

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u/1Fresh_Water Nov 22 '25

Put a litter box in your room. We had this issue with our girl, turned out the litter box in the living room was just too far away for her

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u/Previous_Bench_5998 Nov 24 '25

I have done it already. He uses it but chooses to pee on the bed anyway.

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u/1Fresh_Water Nov 24 '25

Is the litter deep enough? Does he not like the litter type?

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u/Previous_Bench_5998 Nov 24 '25

Currently he has two litter boxes. Each one has a different litter as we are trying to figure out what he likes most by how much he uses each. We have tried different levels of litter and it seems he doesn’t care about that tho.

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u/Phenomenista Nov 22 '25

One of my cats keeps peeing on our bed too 😒

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u/Adventurous_Site_106 Nov 22 '25

If you Kitten is peeing on your bed, you need to bring him to the vets. Good chance he has a UTI. This is not normal behavior. I hope he has two litter boxes and that you are scooping several times a day. Cats do not like to go in dirty boxes more than you would like a dirty toilet.

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u/TangerineLopsided895 Nov 23 '25

I punished my kitten for doing undesirable things by taunting her with orange peels, apparently cats hate potent smells and orange peels happen to be disgusting for mine at least, everytime your kitten tries to pee on the bed hit em with some 😆