[gumby]

I can tell you what my cat is doing when I’m not looking: peeing in the bed. We’re trying to figure out what she’s trying to tell us — it’s a deliberate and abnormal signal from an aging cat.*

My experience with this cat is quite different from the article’s author’s. She is very sweet and meek and cuddly. But she has free access to the outdoors and until she was about 14 yo it was quite common to wake up to a cat asleep next to me but with half a rat or such in the bed.

Now she doesn’t go outside I’ve discovered that there are other cats in the neighborhood.

The good news is we have fresh bed linens every night. But I don’t think all that washing is good for the environment.

[jquast]

It is common for a cat with urinary tract infection (UTI) to pee outside of the litter box, it may be trying to communicate, "it hurts when I pee", and choosing your bed because it thinks that's the best place to communicate with you https://bluecrossvethospital.com/cat-urinary-tract-infection...

[gumby]

Yeah, that’s the most common situation but she tested negative. We had been away and the cat sitter changed the food and litter so we reverted those, but it’s been a couple of weeks and she’s still suffering from something. We just can’t figure out what it is.

At least the good news is it’s deliberate. The plumbing is otherwise operating properly