Sorry this is long!!
I have two cats, a 2 year old who is great and doesn't do anything naughty apart from the usual scratching - easily controlled by clipping her claws.
The other one I got during covid just after my beautiful 21 year old girl died.
There were no rescue cats available during covid and I was bereft so a friend said would you like one of mine - she doesn't get on with the others. I brought her home as she took to me right away - she normally hid all day apparently but she came straight out to see me.
Then I discovered that she was very sick. I took her off for extensive treatment which cost me £4000 in all. She was cured and looks to live a long life, she is 13 now.
i was a bit miffed that none of this had been mentioned when I took the cat. What also wasn't mentioned was that she pissed everywhere, I've lost two expensive sofas which were literally soaked in it. She has pee'd into wall sockets blowing up the electrics, all over my memory foam mattress, up the cupboards. My house is covered in plastic covers.
She gets on fine with the other cat.
The vet can't find any problem with her bladder or kidneys.
I've got plug ins, I have a safe enclosed garden and she can go out anytime she wants, she does like going out.
I have feliway plug ins everywhere.
I have several litter trays round the house that I keep clean just in case she gets caught short.
I just spent 150 getting the sofas cleaned professionally and came down this morning to find she's dug under the plastic and done it again.
She's a lovely cuddly girl and very affectionate.
But somehow seems a bit vague. I'm really wondering now if she's getting cat dementia. I'm going to the vet again to check this out and see if it would help putting her onto some antidepressants or something.
I don't get rid of my cats when they are sick or inconvenient so I have to find a workable solution.
Have I missed anything?
(Also I'm going to my friends house and I'm going to copiously piss on her carpet when she isn't looking)