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Summersun4 · 03/06/2021 10:16

This might be a long one.....
So we have 3 cats, 1 normal moggy & 2 bermise ragdoll cross (they are brothers) that we got several months after the moggy.
The 2 brothers have been nothing but trouble since we got them, moggy is just a normal cat who comes & goes, comes in for meals etc, absolutely no trouble at all.
When we got the brothers they would wee all over the house despite having litter trays but as they were in a new setting we just went with it & it stopped, we did use a spary to clean that is meant to stop them. After moving it started again & even no 2s in places you REALLY don't want them, again they had litter trays. It finally stopped, this was a couple years ago but one of them, (I think I know which one but haven't caught him in the act yet) has started again, we live in a rented so I can't have them weeing on carpets. It's usually on the leather chair, down the side of my sons play kitchen, down the side of the kids bunk bed, against the wardrobe & even on the kitchen windows & I'm sure I can smell it somewhere else but I just can't find where. Nothing has changed so I've no idea why it's started again. We live in a bungalow so I try & keep the bedroom doors shut but when they kids are playing in there they have the door open & sometimes forget to close it when they have finished. The cats have access to the living room & kitchen (their food is there) at night. I'm fed up of getting up every morning & having to check round the living room & kitchen before I can get the kids up. We have a baby due in a couple of months so checking every morning isn't going to be so easy then & litter trays don't stop it. I can't constantly be spraying the house with the cleaner that's meant to stop them, which didn't really work last time.
One of them constantly pesters for food even if they have just been fed or even have food down, gets under my feet in the kitchen, he's been stood on so many times as I've not seen him sat there, he bullies our moggy, constantly picking on him, will wait by the cat flap for him to come in then chase him out, the other one (who I think is the one weeing) walks in front of you & jumps up tripping you up (thank goodness we don't have stairs!) which isn't good when I'll be carrying a baby around. There are lots of other little things but they are absolute nightmares, we've tried to live with this for 3 years but I honestly can't do it anymore. Does anyone have any advice or should we be thinking about rehoming them? Even though they are a pain the thought of having to rehome them is upsetting.

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Fluffycloudland77 · 03/06/2021 10:51

Have you had their urine tested for signs of infection? A urine infection can be present with no other signs of illness.

Aprilwasverywet · 03/06/2021 10:55

Apparently dcats don't like or understand a closed door. Protest peeing!! Ddog used to do it!
Can they be limited to the first room after the cat flap? Our 2 were peeing everywhere.. We limited their access massively for a few months. Cured them. Sadly 1 died last year but remaining one has never disgraced himself as yet... Been about 2 years in now.

Summersun4 · 03/06/2021 11:01

@Fluffycloudland77

Have you had their urine tested for signs of infection? A urine infection can be present with no other signs of illness.
No we haven't, thank you for the suggestion
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lljkk · 03/06/2021 11:03

Owning a pet is a relationship and this relationship is not working for you. I couldn't put up with 3 years of daily excrement in wrong places. Plus your moggie deserves a nicer home.

If you're a saint you can work thru the suggestions here you haven't already tried, systematically. After they all fail then rehome with guilt-free conscience.

Summersun4 · 03/06/2021 11:07

@Aprilwasverywet

Apparently dcats don't like or understand a closed door. Protest peeing!! Ddog used to do it! Can they be limited to the first room after the cat flap? Our 2 were peeing everywhere.. We limited their access massively for a few months. Cured them. Sadly 1 died last year but remaining one has never disgraced himself as yet... Been about 2 years in now.
It's tricky to limit them to the first room, hallway down the middle with all rooms including bedrooms off the hallway... kitchen & living room 1 side & 2 bedrooms the other (doors kept shut as much as possible), bathroom at the end. We can't keep the living room shut as we have kids so coming & goings & the cats just scratch at the carpet/ doors on the odd occasion the living room door has been shut & being rented I can't have them doing that either! So to hear you lost one of yours.
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Fluffycloudland77 · 03/06/2021 11:45

Ok, if you go to a pharmacy you can buy an oral syringe and a human urine sample bottle.

Suck the puddle of wee up & put it into the bottle. You need to get it straight to the vets and they will test it for around £10. If their in pain no amount of washing will stop them doing it.

Summersun4 · 03/06/2021 11:49

@Fluffycloudland77

Ok, if you go to a pharmacy you can buy an oral syringe and a human urine sample bottle.

Suck the puddle of wee up & put it into the bottle. You need to get it straight to the vets and they will test it for around £10. If their in pain no amount of washing will stop them doing it.

Thank you, will try it if I find a puddle, it usually happens over night so buy the time I find it it's usually soaked into something 🤦‍♀️
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Fluffycloudland77 · 03/06/2021 12:04

The vets can manually extract urine if need be.

They offered to do mine until they realised he was a 6.5kg Bengal.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 03/06/2021 15:05

The vets can manually extract urine if need be

Oh, you mean from the cat.

I thought you meant from the carpet.

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