Cat peeing all over the place! Help!!

[CMac]

Hi
I'm having a nightmare with one of my cats who has started peeing in inappropriate places. We have 2 cats (1 male, 1 female) and I'm pretty sure it's just the female that's doing it. We have seen her do it - strange as she actually sprays in the way you'd expect a male cat to. i didn't realise that females could do this too, but seen it with my own eyes!! They are about 3 years old and are both speyed. They were fine for the first 2 years. It got really bad a few months ago - mainly under the table in the kitchen and I spoke to the vet who gage my a plug-in device (bit like a plug-in air freshener) which was supposed to give off 'happy vibes' as he thought she was stressed (the male cat bullies her a bit and we also had a problem with other cats chasing/bothering them). I had also moved some furniture which is apparantly a bad move too. So I used the plug in plus reinstalled a litter tray plus moved the furniture back and it definitely improved, however recently seems to be getting bad again - this time right next to the litter tray! But the last straw was when we realised she's been doing it up agianst the kitchen tiles - over the worktop. It makes me feel sick just thinking about it and am at the end of my tether (also have a 20 month toddler so worry about the hygiene for her too). Any help/ideas would be gratefully recieved
Thanks v much!

It is not the 20 month old who is stressing her out is it? I ask because we recently got 2 kittens (they were 13 weeks old when we got them) and I was horrified to discover they wee'd and pooed in various places about the house. I thought this sort of thing did not happen with kittens who were litter trained before they left their mother. They have got better now, but the last time there was an accident, it followed on from my children putting the offender down my bed (under the bedclothes). He didn't seem stressed and stayed there for a bit, but the minute he left, he walked over to the wall and wee'd everywhere! I have come to the conclusion that the general weeing and pooing in the wrong places is caused by my children mistreating them, especially my youngest who is 2 and 8 months. None of my children mean any harm, but they just don't know when to leave the cats alone and the cats don't help themselves by being very passive and accepting of the children's manhandling. I was just wondering if your toddler had reached an age when he could start being a menace towards the cats.

We have 2 cats, who are Dh's babies. But our 9 year old has been peeing in the sitting room recently. We thought it was a stray tom getting in but after fitting a different cat flap realised it's not. She used to to it in the bath, no probs with that as it goes down sink. But, we now have a 2 year old and I am going to rehouse the cat, I am afraid. My DS is obsessed with her wee/poo anyway so I have to.

This thread offers some light relief!

Sympathies, can't offer much in the way of advice but did want to say that we had to give one of our cats up for rehoming after we had DS1, she started wee and pooing all over the place, we were putting up with it best we could but then she started depositing poos on our neighbours' doormats (we lived in a block of flats so it was definately our cat) and we realised we had to make a decision and she clearly wasn't happy.

That should say as she was clearly not happy.

we have the same problem but probably for differen reasons - our cat is 21 and i think she's going senile. the only thing i can suggest is a litter tray indoors - bit yukky but might help. cat piss stinks doesn't it? but less so if its in a tray

I don't think that the arrival of the baby helped but the cat doesn't seem all that bothered by her really. She keeps her distance and won't let her too close right enough (whereas the male cat is happy to be patted etc). Think it's got more to do with the neighbouring cats who come around the house - kind of a territory marking thing... I found an old thread on mumsnet with a similar problem where there was a suggestion that laying tinfoil on the areas that they pee on works as cats hate the feel of it on their feet. I tried it last night on the bit in the porch that she uses and hey presto, nothing this morning! Early days but I'm hopeful. My house will probably end up looking like a spaceship, carpeted in tinfoil but it's gotta be better than cat pee! Thanks for all the suggestions.

Cats hate vinegar and anything citrus. One of my cats had started taking to peeing on the kitchen surface so I routinely douse it in vinegar now and she has been deterred from peeing on there again. If it's on your carpet try grating orange/lemon peel and sprinkling it in the area. Good luck.