Piddly cat

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Exasperated not the word. I love our Dcats dearly but the 10yo pees everywhere. It's not a health thing, he has always done it and been nervous cat. I just watched him do it on the coffee table and when I shooed him away he came back and did it on the rug.

The house stinks and I'm now pregnant. It has to stop! I don't want to rehome him, you take pets on forever IMO. We have tried Feliway, limiting the spaces he is allowed in, a security cat flap only our two can use. What am I missing? Otherwise he's adorable.

Do they have inside trays?

They did but I moved it to the garage,it's still indoors as such as they go through a catflap to the garage and another to go outside. Neither will use the tray but it's there for it's too bad weather to go outside.

He mostly does it when he sees a 'threat' outside. A neighbouring cat, fox etc but randomly does it at other times. He always pees on me when I'm on the loo.

Put a tray or two back in the house and see what happens.

That would be my first step also.

Ok I will try that. He tends to do it on what he considers 'entry points' to the house, so he will look out the window, see a cat and pee on the nearest horizontal surface. Will have to charm DP over the litter trays though.he says its a behavioural problem and not a continence one.

I think he's probably right - and putting in litter trays is often a behavioural assist first and foremost.

Your cat just sounds like a bit of a fearty to me - sees another cat, thinks about a possible fight and starts peeing in readiness for defending himself. (There could be a little element of protest pee in it as well but I'm not getting the impression from that which you said that there's more than an element.)

I think you likely have to bring the tray in in the first instance and at least give it a try. I have the feeling that you'll be back in a day or two, though, so I'll mull it over in the interim.

Great, thanks. He's a scaredy alright but often quite confrontational with other cats, chasing them off his turf. I assumed he was marking his territory. Our other fella is so sociable. He's often spotted hanging out with the other neighbourhood cats and they 'call on him' (look through the patio doors.) we've had both lads since kittenhood so not a mistreatment issue.

Yes, could be a scaredy. Or an alpha male perhaps. Maybe had a bad experience with a cat/fox, and the pissing could be a fight/flight response when he sees one? Maybe consult a cat behaviourist?

How's his relationship with his cat house-mate?

And big yes to putting 3 trays in the house. Put them in the places he likes to pee in.

He gets on ok with the wee lad, he's 2 1/2 and can be very annoying to him. He likes to ambush the older one and pick fights by twatting him when he sleeps. Big cat the has and outburst of what sounds like fluent Mandarin and they chase each other up and down the hall for a while.

They cohabit not too badly though as long as wee one doesn't climb on the same window ledge.