Think cat is weeing on our front door :(

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We've noticed wee on our front door a few times. It must be an animal marking its territory, and I guess it's mostly likely to be a cat? There are a few cats on the street.

So what do we do to discourage it? Is there a particular cleaning product or strong smelling thing we could use to put the animal off?

Btw we have cats ourselves but it's not them. They're kittens and not going out unsupervised just yet.

What's the layout of the front of your house, AnotherEmma ? (Straight on to the street/extensive parkland with a sweeping gravelled drive/etc etc.)

And how old are your kittens?

The kittens are 6 months old and both neutered (one male, one female). We're just waiting to get a cat flap fitted so they can go outside when they want.

We have a gravelled driveway in front of the house and there is a little porch outside the front door. It's a bit bare tbh so I can't see what would be interesting for an animal!

DH thinks it might be a dog because the wee goes quite high. I find it hard to believe someone would be so irresponsible as to let their dog wee against someone's front door though :s

It could be a local Tom cat spraying.
A big bruisrr Tom has done this on the corner of my house and it stinks! I use strong disinfectant.

Yes I think you're right. There is a big black and white cat that we've noticed - for some reason it looks like a tom (maybe they're chunkier than females?!) I've never seen him in our drive but I wouldn't be surprised if he goes there. DH works from home and sees him in the back garden.

Wonder how the kittens will get on... Will they be able to assert their ownership of the territory do you think?! There are two of them but they're still babies really.

Yes - they do look different. Entire toms develop a sort of 'hammer' head (jowls etc) and are generally chunkier. (Sorry for the inadequate description there.) I'd reckon it was a tom - I've lived on a street with my front door actually on it and I've never known a dog, stranger or my own, to pee on an actual door - pilasters, walls, ledges, bushes, etc, Yes. But not actual doors. It's as if dogs know that those are 'people entries' and therefore forbidden.

Someone else might have a devious plan to prevent it but for the time being be sure to clean it immaculately with appropriate odour-removing stuff. It's likely got itself on some tom's 'scenting route' and your aim is to remove it - and if possible your garden - from the territorial map in his mind. (And keep your eyes skinned and a water pistol handy and ready for him if you see him.)

I'd try to resolve the mean tom issue before you let the kittens out I think. If he believes it's his territory, he might make life a bit tough for them while they're still young and ineffective fighters.

We have named the Tom cat 'Brutus' and cozie you are right, he looks like your description, bloody ugly IMO!
I have 1Tom (neutered) who is beautiful! And 2 females (spayed).
Oddly, he very rarely fights my boy cat, perhaps its because he's got no balls and is no threat!

Another, it more than likely is a Tom spraying, rather than pissing, marking territory. Keep an eye on kitties when they first go out. I'm sure they will be OK.