Why is mi cat randomly peeing inside all of a sudden?

AndSoToBed12 · 2024-02-18T04:17:24+00:00

Hi all, I need some help…our cat is around 10 (we adopted him so unsure of his exact age) recently in the last 6 months or so he’s peed in the house 6 times and I can’t figure it out. In different spots too, usually if an Amazon box has been left out, one on a new rucksack on the floor, in the shoe cupboard and yesterday on a photo I had wrapped in bubble wrap on the floor. It wasn’t raining, he has a cat flap he is capable of using. No other pets in the house he is fighting with and our children don’t bother him. We’ve not changed his diet or moved his food bowls. We did have another cat who died last summer but I’d say they tolerated each otter at best and our current cat seemed mikes happier to be the only cat in the house. It’s very random, no pattern or obvious connections. The vets can’t see anything physically wrong and said it’s behavioural. Has anyone had this experience and what did you do? Im cleaning areas with enzyme cleaner and putting food where he pees but he moves on to another spot. Any advice?

homezookeeper · 18/02/2024 05:33

I have a 14 year old who sprays in the house when he's pissed off. He goes out of a night and there's a massive litter tray he can use during the day. It's funny, because I'm so in tune with him, I can tell when he's going to spray as soon as the idea pops into his head. He was neutered about 13 years ago and he's the only Tom cat I've ever encountered who can spray when they're pissed off. If he doesn't get his way - cuddles when exactly he wants them, fed a little late, redecorating parts of the house - all fair game. But I did draw the line when he sprayed all up my back once. Yes I’m yours you fucking mentalist overlord! Should
I piss on you so that you know you're mine?!

Snozzlemaid · 18/02/2024 05:59

Do you have a litter tray or two he can use indoors?

lifebeginsaftercoffee · 18/02/2024 06:40

Stress.

You also need a litter tray - ideally two.

CormorantStrikesBack · 18/02/2024 06:45

Have you tried feliway plug ins and also the cystese tablets you can get from Amazon. I have a cat who will suddenly decide to pee indoors fairly regularly and if I fire both of these into action at the first rogue pee it knocks it on the head. Otherwise he keeps doing it. Both will help with stress.

Palepinkish · 18/02/2024 07:24

We had this with our cat - no issues until he was about 5 years old. He started spraying and weeing around the house. We tried everything- animal behaviourists, sprays, plugins etc and had resigned ourselves to keeping him in the utility room and washing that down at least daily. I did some more research online and found that, in the US is common for vets to prescribe antidepressants but our vet was reluctant. This had been going on for 4 years at this point! I sent the vet the info I’d found and they prescribed Prozac, in liquid form. We haven’t had any problems since! I can now trust that he can be around the house without any problem. We all have a better life!

Elisheva · 18/02/2024 08:14

I bought a stack of cheap litter trays and put one in each room of the house, plus used a Feliway plug in. After a couple of weeks I took away the litter trays he wasn’t using so much and we now have three. We can’t ever leave the bath mat out, and a carrier bag left on the floor is like a magnet but otherwise it seems to have solved it.

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AndSoToBed12 · 21/02/2024 10:14

CormorantStrikesBack · 18/02/2024 06:45

Have you tried feliway plug ins and also the cystese tablets you can get from Amazon. I have a cat who will suddenly decide to pee indoors fairly regularly and if I fire both of these into action at the first rogue pee it knocks it on the head. Otherwise he keeps doing it. Both will help with stress.

Thanks I’ve not heard of those tablets so I’ll give them try as I’ve just discovered he’s peed again. Today is chucking it down with rain so that’s understandable but it’s still so frustrating

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AndSoToBed12 · 21/02/2024 10:15

Elisheva · 18/02/2024 08:14

I bought a stack of cheap litter trays and put one in each room of the house, plus used a Feliway plug in. After a couple of weeks I took away the litter trays he wasn’t using so much and we now have three. We can’t ever leave the bath mat out, and a carrier bag left on the floor is like a magnet but otherwise it seems to have solved it.

The bathmat! I forgot about that. Yes he loves peeing on that

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TippingPointing · 21/02/2024 10:18

My boy cat does this occasionally and it has always been when there has been another cat threatening his territory outside (a neighbourhood cat that bullies him for instance).

Nicebloomers · 21/02/2024 10:19

TippingPointing · 21/02/2024 10:18

My boy cat does this occasionally and it has always been when there has been another cat threatening his territory outside (a neighbourhood cat that bullies him for instance).

I would say this too.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 21/02/2024 10:20

With mine it was bullying by a neighbourhood cat.

Julianne65 · 21/02/2024 13:32

Just piggy backing on this thread as our little darling has started peeing on our bed. It appears to be a scent marking thing as she uses her tray unless she finds herself lucky enough to be on the bed. She is now banned until further notice!

I have enzyme cleaner for the bed spread (duvet needs to go to the launderette as it's so big). Can I wack a load of washing in at the same time as the pee stained bed spread or is there a risk of the smell mingling? This might be a stupid question.

Jux · 21/02/2024 13:45

We have a similar problem. We believe it is actually not one of our cats at all but a neigbours' cat who is enormous and does use our flap. I bought a microchip flap (v expensive) which somehow disappeared and we are currently looking for it. Can't get another, far too expensive and I know it's in the house. Somewhere.......

We do seem to have accumulated a lot of junk in 25 years and I've been ill since November (hospital 3 times, once for nearly 2 weeks with sepsis) which is why I haven't started a thorough search until now.

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AndSoToBed12 · 21/02/2024 17:03

Julianne65 · 21/02/2024 13:32

Just piggy backing on this thread as our little darling has started peeing on our bed. It appears to be a scent marking thing as she uses her tray unless she finds herself lucky enough to be on the bed. She is now banned until further notice!

I have enzyme cleaner for the bed spread (duvet needs to go to the launderette as it's so big). Can I wack a load of washing in at the same time as the pee stained bed spread or is there a risk of the smell mingling? This might be a stupid question.

Bicarbonate of soda in the wash and white vinegar will get rid of the smell…

I’m resigning myself to a litter tray. Choc doesn’t seem stressed, there are no other cats (as far as I can tell) that come into our garden. Choc is very much a house cat, he only comes into the garden if we go out and he usually goes out to do his business but is straight back in. He is the definition of a lazy house cat.

We had a litter tray about 7 years ago when we were in a flat but since moving to our house with a garden he’s been going outside and I was so relieved to not have to faff about with litter trays.

I wish I could just ask him what the problem was!

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AndSoToBed12 · 21/02/2024 17:05

Jux · 21/02/2024 13:45

We have a similar problem. We believe it is actually not one of our cats at all but a neigbours' cat who is enormous and does use our flap. I bought a microchip flap (v expensive) which somehow disappeared and we are currently looking for it. Can't get another, far too expensive and I know it's in the house. Somewhere.......

We do seem to have accumulated a lot of junk in 25 years and I've been ill since November (hospital 3 times, once for nearly 2 weeks with sepsis) which is why I haven't started a thorough search until now.

That’s interesting….although I can tell it is our Choc because he has little footprints he leaves behind from the scene of the crime. We have one of those microchip cat flaps too and I’ve noticed he will come in via the cat flap but he won’t leave. He just sits at the door and looks at you to open it. I’ve check it and it is still working. He is stubborn though.

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Mammma91 · 21/02/2024 17:14

Had the same problem with my 7 year old male last year OP. We had to use feliway opium plug in, I think we were £32 for the set and then £26 for the refills every month from pets at home. We couldn’t figure out for love nor money what the issue was until we seen him be attacked by a neighbours cat on the ring door bell. As it turns out he was being bullied by this cat. Is there many cats roaming in your area?

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AndSoToBed12 · 21/02/2024 20:55

Mammma91 · 21/02/2024 17:14

Had the same problem with my 7 year old male last year OP. We had to use feliway opium plug in, I think we were £32 for the set and then £26 for the refills every month from pets at home. We couldn’t figure out for love nor money what the issue was until we seen him be attacked by a neighbours cat on the ring door bell. As it turns out he was being bullied by this cat. Is there many cats roaming in your area?

Not really, I’ve not seen another cat in our garden or generally in the immediate area, the neighbours either side done have cats. Might give the feliway plug in a try. He doesn’t really go outside much but that isn’t anything new, he prefers to just snooze inside in whichever room we are in. I’ll keep an eye out though as this could be the issue

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CormorantStrikesBack · 21/02/2024 21:59

My little darling has weed on the bed again. Duvet will have to go to the laundromat again. So frustrating. I’m trying to ban him from the bedroom but seems if the door gets left open for a few minutes he’s in there having a wee.

LoveMySituation · 21/02/2024 22:43

We too, have a cat weeing problem I'd love some advice about. My son and his grandad have two cats, one a ten year old spayed female, and one an around eight month unspayed female kitten, that adopted them. The cats live seperate lives, living in seperate rooms, just about tolerating each other if they happen to meet, and the kitten sometimes wees on my dads bed if he leaves his door open, where the elder cat now spends most of her time since the kitten moved in.

Older cat is a completely different cat since kitten came, seems unhappy, another issue is I'm pretty sure my father has dementia, so is unable to get kitten spayed himself. My son wants kittens from her, so meanwhile, the kitten can't go out in case she comes back pregnant, which my dad doesn't want, and older cat does go out. My dad refuses to solve any of this, and just carries on, ignoring. I think this situation can't carry on but ny son has nothing to do with me, and my dad is scared to make my son have the kitten spayed in case he leaves. So I get moaned at, and advice requested repeatedly, but he won't do anything. Very dysfunctional. Is there anything else I can suggest, apart from spaying kitten?

DumpedByText · 21/02/2024 23:03

Stress I'd say, could you get a Feliway plug in these really help.

My cat suffers from FLUTD which is a form of stress cystitis. She has to have vet dietary food, Hills Science plan urinary stress. Works really well, but if something really upsets her she wees on my bed! I must have gone through 10 duvets in a couple of years.

TippingPointing · 22/02/2024 01:08

I hadn't realised you were not providing the cat with a litter tray. Seems like an obvious solution to provide one? Especially since you have also now mentioned the cat doesn't like pushing from inside to outside with the cat flap.