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Cat spraying

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clairefromsteps · 23/06/2012 19:08

My cat (neutered tom, 12 years old) has started spraying indoors recently (over the last month or so) - he backs up to something, tail twitching and sprays, sometimes just a little bit, sometimes more. He doesn't just do it in one part of the house - all the rooms, all the surfaces. It's a daily occurrence and it's now officially driving me up the wall! Nothing has changed, as far as I can tell, to make him upset or nervous. He is old, but healthy and active. He is still going outside as much as he did and I've seen him peeing and pooing outside, so it''s not because he doesn't want to pee outside.

Does anyone have any advice? Am I missing something? Can this sort of thing be solved? Might it be an illness? In all other ways he is a perfect cat, great with the children and very friendly, but my youngest is a year old and I really don't want her wandering through pools of cat pee!

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littlekitty4 · 24/06/2012 00:47

i too have a neutered tom, he is 16 and he too over the last month started spraying and like yours its up everything even has a quick spray as he walks out the bloody window, i believe our problem is a roaming casanova that frequently pops in during the night whilst doing the rounds and our cat feels his territory is being invaded, i have spotted this little midnight visitor on a few occasions legging it through the window as he hears me approaching, not a lot i can do about it, i have 4 cats whom like to go in and out at night, i have ordered some felliway (think that the name) its a plug in that is ment to calm a cat and hopefully stop him spraying......good luck x

RedwingWinter · 24/06/2012 19:22

Can you think of anything that has happened to upset him? Urine marking is usually a sign of stress, especially since he is neutered. If you can work out what is stressing him, then you can reduce the stress and hopefully the marking will stop. You have to clean up the mess with something designed to remove pet smells, because otherwise some of the smell will linger, or even be concentrated if you use an ammonia-based cleaner, and will make him go again.

Like littlekitty said, feliway diffusers are plug-ins that will distribute cat pheromones and calm cats down.

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