any way to stop my male cat from "marking its territory?"?

Question

I have a male cat in the house and sometimes it will rub against something then aim its *** to w/e its rubbing and shoot out this stream of i dont know what the hell it is. all i know is that it stains the furniture and has his sort of smell i cant describe.

any way to stop it from doing that besides getting it fixed?

Answer 1

Unfortunately not. What your male cat is doing is called "spraying". And like you said, he is marking his territory.

Getting him fixed will NOT resolve the problem once he starts. When a male feline starts to spray, he will continue to do so for the rest of his life. If your male cat would have been neutered(?) around the 6 month stage, he would have an almost 98% chance of never spraying because he would have no need to "mark his territory" due to the lack of hormones.

I am taking my little guy Felix (6 months, 3 days)in this week to get him fixed before he starts doing the same thing. I will double check with my vet to see if there is anyway to deter your guy from doing this and post back in a couple days if you would like.

Cynthia

Answer 2

The best way to end the marking is by having your pet neutered. Male cats mark for territorial reasons, to claim something as their own and to show their dominance. All of this is due to hormones. Once your cat is neutered he will lose the desire to be dominant and will stop spraying. It usually helps with any aggressive behavior also.
Just be sure that once they are healed, they get plenty of excercise and playtime because they can gain weight due to the lessening of these hormone levels.

Answer 3

kristen has were given the idea , if he hasnt been nuterd then get him carried out, even as my cat (boy) all started marking after I were given him nuterd it stoped. some cases if u have had dogs or carpet the cats can smell the dogs and it drives them nutts , so u can get like a carpet disinfectant yet i got here upon the suitable ingredient to do become rip the carpet up and iether positioned a sparkling one in or pick floorbords. sorry for the spelling!

Answer 4

yeah, I'm having the same problem! And it smells soooooo bad! But my cat is like almost a year old, so I may have waited too late to do anything about it now.

Answer 5

get rid of it.. i just got dogs and they are annoying.. i must have gone from being animal lover to short tempered don't care person..Animals can give so much love but they can really make you angry too.. I am debating..I thought the animals would add to my life..they have they are just like babies feed ,pick after and just plain trouble..but well other than what I mentioned what can you do? lol don't get me wrong ill probably love these dogs the rest of my life but in the last few days wondered how my view of animals changed so quickly lol take care and good luck.

Answer 6

Unfortunately, it's difficult to stop a cat from doing anything that he has set his mind on. My best advice is to fill a super soaker squirt gun and give him a good squirt each time he starts to mark. If he hasn't been neutered already, neuter him.

Answer 7

You cant stop that behavior without nutting him. Its a natural behavior and a cat is driven by instinct, not a conscious mind.
I.e. it does not "know that it is doing it", it does it because of chemical and electrical signals in its brain and bollocks.

Answer 8

Get him desexed and even after unfortunately it still can happen, that's if he get's desexed too late. And the trick with the water pistol or whatever you call it is not too bad too. Should help but you always have to be alert.

Answer 9

There is no way to stop it unless you get him neutered! How can you stand that smell...sorry. n

Answer 10

Neutering him is the only way.