I have a 2 year old male cat that is fixed. I also have a 1 year old female cat also fixed and ever since I have gotten my male he just has been peeing all over the house. it is not just in certian spots. Recently it has been on the kitchen floor, on my leather jacket and in the middle of the living room floor!
And it is NOT all the time, it is maybe once or twice a week.
Yes, there is a litter box in the house and it is one of the self cleaning ones. (Litter Maid). And that is cleaned a t least every week.
I also have a male roommate living with me, but I dont know if that would make a difference with him thinking that there is another male in his house?
I got both of my cats from shelters.
Could it him spraying, beacuse I have heard of male cats spraying when though he is fixed.
Please Help!
Only Serious Answers, please!
2006-09-21 05:00:32 · 11 answers · asked by FanofJrSrand29 2 in Pets ➔ Cats
Spraying is when the cat stands up and the urine is released in a stream behind the cat. If he is squatting and making puddles, it's not spraying.
First thing, go to a vet. He might have a bladder infection. I don't think thats his problem, but it's always better to be safe than sorry.
Is he your second cat? I'm confused on that detail. If you got him second and he's always been like this, I think it is just the way that cat is. You probably won't be able to train him out of it. Unfortunately some cats are like that, that's why they end up at shelters. All cat's are different though, so read on.
If he is the first cat and you got another one, I think you are right in thinking he is acting out over the new cat. Is the room mate new too? Yeah, that will have him stressed out too.
So, what to do?
Get a few more litter boxes. Put them in different rooms and show him where they are. Some cats really object to sharing.
Get into a routine. Coming and going, eating and sleeping; cats LOVE schedules. Try not to have lots of people over for a month or so, let him get used to the room mate.
If he is spraying, it might help NOT to use the emzyme cleaners that remove all smells. If you leave a little of his smell around, he may quit. Use Simple Green it will remove stains and hopefully make the smell unnoticable to you, but still OK for the cat.
If you can catch him going, and only if you catch him, yell "NO" and put him into the litter box.
I don't want to be a negative, but at the clinic where I work, we see cats that refuse to box train all the time. We usually wind up euthanizing them. Sorry, but would you want to wish this problem on anyone else?
Like I said all cats are different, and he may come around.
Good Luck
2006-09-21 05:30:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Last year my beautiful Manx cat Theodore went out for the evening and never came back. I love cats and the house didn't feel the same without one, so I picked up Lola from a rescue centre. She was very frightened and would pee all over the house. I found Cat Spraying No More� on the internet and the techniques worked almost immediately. I haven't had a problem with Lola since. Amazing!
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2016-05-14 12:07:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He could be spraying. However, if you got him from a shelter, maybe he has some kind of infection. We had a problem with one of our cats peeing outside the litter box. It turned out he had a urinary tract infection and needed treatment. If he hasn't been taken to a vet and had a thorough check-up, do that first. If that has already been done or if no problems, then it may be behavioral and you may need to restrict the cat to the area of the house that the litter box is in when you are not home. When you are home, you would need to watch carefully and see if that behavior is something that occurs after some kind of specific incident. He may be unhappy with the other cat or something like that. Good luck and hope all works out for you!
2006-09-21 05:27:24 · answer #3 · answered by hbennett76 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
did you get your male cat fixed before or after he started spraying, once they start even getting them fixed won't always solve the spraying problem...if the male roommate is a new addition to the "family" it could be his way of showing he didn't like the change.
best bet is to take him to the vet and make sure there isn't a medical condition (urinary tract infection) if that is ruled out then you have to go to behavioral modification. you can lock him in a small room with his litter box and some water. he will learn he has to use the box or he will have to live in the waste.
oh another thing is they recomend 1 litterbox per cat plus one and make sure there is a litterbox on each level of your house.
2006-09-21 05:18:17 · answer #4 · answered by macleod709 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
cats will urninate outdoors the field for diverse motives. If there is anohter cat interior the abode noticeably. sometimes cats( regularly, yet no longer constantly, the boys) get jealous at yet another cats fragrance. try protecting the field x-tra sparkling. sparkling it usual. i be responsive to that's a soreness yet what do you go with? it is likewise achieveable that he would have a UTI. My cat peed outdoors his field too and the vet mentioned it grew to become right into a UTI. I actual have the comparable: a million fastened male and a million fastened lady. i've got observed my male doens't like the fragrance of the female. even nevertheless they have been jointly for 15 yrs now. he will purely use the field if he gets to if first formerly she does. (pass parent) i think of its a territroial ingredient. the recent domestic dog would desire to reason him to try this back. quite often that's a jealousy ingredient. What to do aobut it? you're wager is as sturdy as mine there. you could no longer provide up the domestic dog, yet you could no longer tolerate the cat occurring the floor the two. purely provide them time to get used to one yet another. Cats are very territorial animals.
2016-10-01 05:21:00 · answer #5 · answered by riesgo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would invest in a squirt bottle and watch your kitty like a hawk, then if he sprays, squirt him good with water-cats hate that. Otherwise, your cat could have some random behavioral or health problem that needs to be addressed by a vet-maybe just put in a call to your local animal doc-it wouldn't hurt. Good luck, there's nothing worse than the smell of cat pee.
2006-09-21 05:04:39 · answer #6 · answered by BooBadly 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately cats can spray after they are fixed (or so I've been told). I would ask your vet if there are any remedies you can try out and maybe make him an outdoor cat if you want to keep him around. Maybe even a little time outdoor will get that wild streek out of him. Good Luck!
2006-09-21 05:03:17 · answer #7 · answered by Marie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry, we had the same thing happen and had to 'get rid of him' was sad but we were not gonna have our house ruined by a p*ssing cat, sometimes removing the cats manhood doesn't get rid of the marking instinct. not many options, sorry!
2006-09-21 05:11:20 · answer #8 · answered by mongo862001 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
put a kitty diaper on it. No I'm not kidding, they have these at Pets Plus stores and Petsmart.
Otherwise, get rid of the cat. You can't train it out of an instictual behaviour
2006-09-21 05:07:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Maybe you shouldn't have got a cat if you didn't want your pet to pee all over your house. That is what cats do. You should consider yourself lucky that the female hasn't started peeing everywhere too.
2006-09-21 05:04:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋