To give my cat away because he pees all over the house?

[Mousefunky]

I have a 1.5 year old Tom cat, adopted at four months. He is neutered and well loved.

The problem is, he pisses everywhere. I have asked for advice from my vet numerous times and yes, he has been checked multiple times for UTI’s and even diabetes, all came back fine. All the vet says is it’s behavioural and she advised a few products to buy such as Feliway, catnip and spraying the urine off stuff all over, all of which I have done (and spent a fortune on...)

I have had to change an entire rooms flooring, throw numerous things away including some of my DC’s toys and clothes and have spent a fortune on cleaning products because of it. I am also four months pregnant and dreading the cat potentially peeing on the baby’s things too.

He is a house cat and always has been so I considered maybe he wanted to go outside and have tried putting him out a few times but all he does is cower and meow at the doorstep to come back in.

I am furious because today I found he had peed all over my new living room curtains . I love him but I just can’t deal with this anymore. Does anyone have any advice or do I just need to admit defeat and give him away to a shelter?

Try Zylkene which helps anxiety in cats. It comes as capsules put they're easy to pull apart and then you sprinkle the powder over the food. It's made from milk so tastes nice (I used to mix it into my cat's food, but now just sprinkle it on top and she eats it all up).

She overgrooms. I tried Feliway, grain-free food and anti-histamines, all to no avail. 2 weeks on Zylkene and there were tufts of fur on her hitherto bald tummy. It really is amazing!

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Have you tried nutracalm? It's a drug based on something in the mother's milk, and it works for us, along with Feliway. It was prescribed by the vet.

We have a traumatised rescue cat who periodically goes through months of pissing everywhere. Nutracalm powdered into her fish soup and feliway together work. Assume you are using the special enzyme sprays to try to break down the smell of the urine so he doesn't keep going back to the same places to piss.

Do you have free access to outside for him? One of mine was like this until we moved into a house with a cat flap installed. Suddenly there’s no problem, she’s not done it here once. I can only imagine I wasn’t always available to open the door for her when she wanted to pee and it turns out she just prefers not to use the litter tray and go outside.

I also read that when rescues get a cat with toileting issues they crate them, litter tray in one half and food/water in the other. This forces them to use the litter tray as they definitely won’t go by the food. They do it for two weeks and apparently it retrains them well enough for them to be rehomed without the problem. Rehoming cats because of toileting problems is one of the biggest causes of cats going to rescue. I’d look into that a bit more before trying it though, I don’t know how accurate it is, as I say I only read it somewhere, and I don’t recall where.

Yabu.

Yes it’s horrid, but don’t get rid of the poor thing.

We have 5 cats and the alpha male pisses everywhere constantly, it’s really grim. He’s 9 now and is neutered etc. He is quite an anxious cat and we’ve tried EVERYTHING but to no avail.

We are fully committed to him for his life regardless of the inconvenience his pissing causes. We just have to spend a lot of time cleaning!

Some shelters have a no kill policy. RSCPA and Battersea are not included in this. I don't know about Blue Cross.

If you do rehome, try to find a sanctuary. I know a couple but it depends on where you are.

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@Snappymcsnappy that is brilliant, I’ve got visions of the dog covertly following the cat when he’s up to no good! And coming back to you to grass the cat up! My dogs do this to each other all the time, they excel in grassing each other up and thoroughly enjoy it 😂😂😂😂

I love my cat, but in your position, I'd have to rehome him.

The centre where I’ve worked would suggest confining him to a very small pen/cage. Literally just big enough for a litter tray, food bowl, water bowl and lying down cat. That way, the only place to wee/poo is the tray. This can break the cycle. Try for a few days or a week or so before trying the house again.

Meant to say, people don’t realise just how awful cat urine everywhere can be, I’ve been in similar shoes op, it was driving me insane!

If a cat is like that, it might make sense to have it euthanized. It may have been permanently traumatized. Sometimes cats cannot recover from early trauma. There are few people who can handle cats who urinate in their homes, and realistically, mentally healthy cats and kittens get euthanized every day. It is a terrible thing, but it is realistic. To my mind, there are so many more cats who need homes than people who are willing to adopt them, it is important not to make cat ownership an impossible burden.

Zombie thread. How was it resolved @Mousefunky ?

Yes, an oldish thread but still might help someone who doesn't want to kill their pet.