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Hurryupbacktoschool · 26/08/2018 23:24

I’m in utter despair over this as it’s been going on for several months now. I have two cats, one very shy and one confident. I’ve worked out it’s the shy one urinating all over my house.
It started on beds so we now have to keep bedroom doors shut. My poor kids are always being shouted at to shut their doors! Then she started spraying up the doors, including my front door at times.
There’s a spot in my bedroom that she sprays. I’ve used Biotex and Urine Off spray. I’ve plugged a Feliway in. I put pet remedy on a tissue on the spot and she pee’d on the tissue! I now have a litter tray there. This worked for a few days but today she has sprayed the wall next to the tray. I also now realise she seems to have been spraying the back wall inside the litter tray.

The vet says no illness. I’ve ysed Cystease in case it’s cystitis. I’ve used a whole bottle with no change in behaviour. Zylkene didn’t work either.

She also leaves puddles on my tiled bathroom floor. Has wee’d on clothes left on the floor.

I’m at a complete loss now. My husband wants her gone. He says our house stinks. I clean it but you still smell it, or you smell the cleaners which don’t smell nice either. Feliway always smells.

Rehoming isn’t an option in case anyone suggests it. Nobody would want this cat. She hides from people ( except me, my husband and kids and she doesn’t like the kids much) and urinates in the house. I do think she might be happier somewhere quieter and without my other cat around. I couldn’t let her go unless it was somewhere I could see her and be sure she was looked after. This home doesn’t exist in reality. So I have to find a solution to the spraying somehow.

Has anybody successfully stopped this kind of soiling in their cat?

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MrsPawsitive · 27/08/2018 06:34

Are you absolutely sure it's not a health issue? I ask because it is almost always my boy cats who stress wee or mark territory. If I had a girl cat do that I'd look closely at her health. If not that, then I would think she's stressed out by something, maybe the other cat? Do they generally get along or do they avoid one another?

Your cat might be protesting the litter, the litter box, or the placement of her litter box. She might also just need a quiet place of her own. One of my boy cats goes in the bedroom closet for quiet time. At first I wasn't too thrilled by the idea but he and I agreed that as long as he didn't make any messes in there, he was allowed. So far, so good. I hope you can find out what your cat is trying to tell you so you can help her be her best self.

Hurryupbacktoschool · 27/08/2018 07:58

I really don’t think it’s a health issue. It started last year after we did building work and has ramped up from just beds to all over after we had some decorating done this year.

My cats don’t get along but will mostly ignore each other. There is the odd hiss or pounce but no actual fighting. It’s not really possible to separate them in this house. We have to adhere to a strict policy of keeping bedroom doors shut so that only leaves the kitchen and living room.

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crimsonlake · 27/08/2018 07:59

I have dealt with exactly the same, but sorry have no advice to offer. It drove me crazy, ruined carpets, curtains, even books on book shelves. Each time I swore the cat would have to go, but could not bring myself to put down a pet my 20 year old son had had since he was four. We never worked out why she was doing it and basically had to watch her like a hawk. She passed away in May aged 17 years and despite the troublesome years I was sad.

Hurryupbacktoschool · 27/08/2018 15:30

Oh no that’s my biggest fear. It’s becoming a behaviour that I now cannot see stopping.

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