My familial have two cats.?
The younger newer one uses the litter box but now the older one pees on the carpet...she poops surrounded by the litter box but pees on carpets? advice please =)
my guidance would be to get another littler box
good luck
Cats do not like adjustment, and a new cat using her litter box will be particularly unwelcome. Often cats will urinate outside the box to show their displeasure or within response to a significant change in their environment. For some cause they will still defecate in the box though. Get a second litter box. Don't try to limit any cat to just one of the boxes, as that won't work, but it may tend to ease your older cat's distress. Be painstaking about keeping the boxes scooped.
The other possibility is that the older cat have a urinary tract or kidney problem. If this continues after you add a second litter box, take her to the vet.
Answers: Get a second, conceivably even third box. Cats are finicky about things like that and they like their box to smell close to them, not an "intruder'.
Most cat 'literature' (I don't know what else to call it) states that you should have at least one litter box per cat; some speak 1 1/2 per cat.
Another thing to check is the size of the box: Has your older cat outgrown it? When you buy the second box, you might also progress a size larger, just to be sure.
I know my kitty suddenly started crapping right in front of his box one darkness and I though he was throwing a tantrum until I caught him in action a few days then. He was sitting inside his (what looked to be plenty roomy) box with his butt hanging out and only just pooping away - he had no clue that he had missed the box! So, I found the largest one I could bring my hands on. ("Poop outta that one, why don't you?") It worked. My floor is clean.
