Moved house now cats peeing everywhere.

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Moved house about a week ago with my 3 cats who are usually outdoors but use the litter tray too. As I'm keeping them inside for a few weeks I've noticed puddles of wee around the house even though they're still pooping in the tray. For the first few days they were fine, they have 2 trays but they all mix and match. I have no idea why the sudden change, the eldest 2 are neutered but not the youngest although he never sprayed in my old house. I don't know what to do, the whole house stinks!!

Before anything I would get them checked up by the Vets just to make sure they are healthy

Other reason for them behaving in this manner is

Change of environment that has caused them stress which is leading to this inappropriate behavior

Cats love routine and if their routine changes this triggers stress

Think about it, from having a daily routine and everything being the same to now a sudden change

What you can do is

Try give your Cats their own space to help them get used to their surroundings, maybe your bedroom? And keep them their for a while and then gradually introduce them to the rest of the house

Give your Cats more affection and love.. Give them attention and reassurances that everything is going to be okay

Talk with your Cat, stroke them, pet them, this will calm them down

I would recommend reading this article

catloverhere.com/2018/06/28/how-to-calm-a-stressed-cat-down/

Got some great advice and tips on how to calm a stressed out Cat down

Hope this helps and all the best

PS - Patience is key here because it may take time

In addition to the great advice above I'd say that your uneutered cat is likely to be separating and marking his new territory. He may not have felt the need to do this in his old home, but in this new house he will need to make his mark. Unneutered cat wee smells even worse than neutered cat wee so I would suggest getting him neutered ASAP.

His behaviour may be triggering your other cats to be weeing in the house also.

Me again. You do need at least as many trays as cats where you have a stressful situation and cats are trying to establish their territory.

The fact that they are pooing in the tray but weeing elsewhere does suggest a territory marking situation, or illness.

My cat is currently doing this he's neutered. I think it's a stress thing. So we locked them in the kitchen with thier food and litter tray. Seems to be calming down as no wee today. It's been nearly 3 weeks now

I have been to my vet to ask about neutering, they said he's too young (5 months) and to wait until hes around 9-12 months. I'd been keeping them in the kitchen with 2 litter trays but after a few days they were getting abit agitated and becoming abit hostile towards each other so I decided to let them roam around. I've got a feeling it's the kitten who's doing his business as it's such a pungent smell, he's also the one who seems to be struggling the most with settling in. Is there possibly any way I get can my vet to reconsider and just neuter him now?

It's recommended to neuter at 4 months. I had to go to an alternative vet to get mine done early as mine said 6 months. There is a kitten neutering database online that could tell you if there was a vet near you that would do it earlier

www.cats.org.uk/what-we-do/neutering/enr/menu-early-neutering

I think it's usual to get a cat neutered earlier than your vet is recommending. Ours was done at 4 months. I know the recommended age for dogs has been moved for bigger breeds but I wasn't aware that it had been moved for cats also.

IMO it is highly likely that it's the unneutered cat spraying. As he will be driven to mark his territory in this way. I think it's hard to prevent as it's what his instincts are telling him.

You could try using feliway plug ins at key locations.

To get on top of this you need to
Have young cat neutered he is definitely old enough
Supply one facility per cat plus a spare ( you have 3 cats you need 4 of each facility) facilities are litter tray, water, food and high sleeping place
Clean up with the three bottle method and loo roll. Bottle one a solution of biological washing powder. Bolt up. Bottle two plain water soak and blot repeatedly. Bottle three surgical spirit to cover smell.
Feliway classic plugins.
L-tryptophan in some form calm food, zylkene or nutracalm.

Feliway to help them calm down, an enzyme based specialist urine cleaner to help remove all traces of the odor, litter trays where they mark and I would definitely get the young one neutered ASAP.

Is it all of them? If you're not sure, listening out for scratching as they sometimes do it after they've soiled. If you think it's likely to be just the young one, speak to your vet about neutering. My previous two were done at just five months, my present two at 4.5 months. Sometimes they won't neuter if a cat is a low weight or if they're under the weather, but it seems it's done earlier these days in many cases.

Feliway plug in diffuser (possibly a couple, one upstairs,one downstairs) definitely and ensure sufficient litter trays for cats. The advice is one each plus an extra. (Personally I don't follow this advice as no where to put 5 litter trays which I would need but that is the recommended advice especially if they are used to going outside). You can also get special carpet cleaners for pet accidents which breakdown the enzymes and help with the smell.