neurotic cat: toilet ishoos

[lucy123]

I posted about this before, as have others, but can't find the threads.

Our cat consistently wees in the house. She has prefferred spots for this, and I clean it up without detergent (as suggested on the other thread), but she continues to do so. We have also tried shutting her out of the rooms where she wees, but she just finds another spot.

We also tried a litter tray, which did work, but we simply don't have enough space for a litter tray! I gradually moved the litter tray outside, but she then started weeing in the house again. She does poo outside though (in the litter tray). If it's a clue, she never has bothered to bury any of her doings - she just half-heartedly scrapes the earth (or now the floor) nearby.

I'm at my wit's end. We can't give her away - she is very affectionate and needs lots of lovin' (which she gets all evening, and we both work at home so she is not often alone) and since the Spanish are not great cat-lovers I suspect finding her a good home would be impossible. Dd could be part of the problem, but the cat has learned to avoid her as far as possible.

Anyway I read onthe other thread about these pheromone pluggy in things. Does anyone know much about them and where can I buy one online? (I asked at the vet's but he had never heard of them. I think he spends most of his time dealing with the funny toy dogs which are so popular here).

Its called Feliway, plug in diffuser, buy whole thing first then refills. Each refill lasts about a month. I know you can buy them online but not sure where,sorry. Dispenser costs approx £20 then refills 13ish. They really do work like magic.

try this\linkwww.biovets.com/Feliway.htm{}

urgh links!!!!

try again-european one this timefeliway

Has she got cystitis? My namesake has it and has started weeing in the house recently. Got drugs from the vet.

Alternatively keep a water pistol to hand and use it when she wees inside. Cats don't associate it with you but do the association thing really quickly

Freddiecat - how else would I know if she has cystitis? Since she is neurotic I would really rather not pack her up in a box to take her to the vet, but I don't like the thought of her possibly having cystitis (ouch! ).

Water pistol might work, but I think she knows she is not allowed to wee in the house: she never does it in front of us.

To everyone else: thanks for the links!

Well our cat was squatting and trying to wee a lot, asking to go out a lot and also had pink wee (blood in it). Plus manic washing of nether regions (licking to ease the soreness?). Poor pussy cat.

Is she weeing or spraying?
We have three female cats and one was doing this. According to the vet she was trying to stop the males (which come and spray around our garden most nights) claming the space as theirs? We tried some homeopathic stuff which didn't work. The vet gave her an injection of some female hormone and shes hardly done it since. Shes also more freindly and sleeps on peoples laps which she never did before.
We find if we get them in before it gets dark shes fine, but if we are late and its got dark, the males are around and she starts doing it again for a few days.

Lucy 123 ...
We had a cat once that needed hormone treatment ... he was a neutered male who had been house trained and then all of a sudden started peeing on the curtains by the front door. Hormone treatment sorted him out but he was never very good at the 'clean' cat thing. Unlike our other cats he always had a dirty bottom and never covered his 'doings' properly. The only reason for this that we could think of was that he was really young when we got him ... about 5 weeks old and my mum thought that he was taken away from his mother too young and never learned properly what to do ... Poor little thing
His name was Sooty BTW ... guess what colour he was

I'd definately try the Feliway - it worked on our mog who had to endure two house moves in the space of three months - highly stressful - and she was a sprayer before we used it...lovely to arrive at work and THEN realise you smelt of cat pee....!They aren't cheap, but do seem to work. You can also get some cleaner stuff from petshops that takes away the smell so as to not encourage them to keep going back to the same place (a solution of water and non-bio washing powder is also supposed to work..)

Thanks everyone.

I suspect it is a stress / hormone thing rather than cystitis as she's not obviously in pain, just whingy.

Will try feliway, as it's definatley a wee thing rather than a spray thing.