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My family needs some help with one of our cats. We are totally at our wits end. We adopted two cats, a male and a female from the same litter in August 2010. The female cat has always been more skittish. For a long time I was the only one she would come up to and rub up against and cuddle with me. Gradually, she became more friendly with the rest of the family. She still hides when we have people over and if any visitor or stranger tries to her approaches her she hisses and claws. For about a year now she has started peeing on stuff. She has peed on our bed, on our living room carpet, on our children’s backpacks, and on our luggage in the garage to just name a few. We have a bin of shoes in our hallway under the stair and twice in the past month she has climbed into that and peed on all the shoes while looking right at us. Of course when all this started last year the first thing we did was bring her to a vet to confirm that it was not a medical issue. We even ended up bringing her a second time to a different vet to double check. The obvious question is, did anything change before she started peeing? We have searched and search for an answer to the question and we cannot figure anything out. The vet did give us some advice that we followed. We bought 2 new litter boxes so now we have 3 litter boxes in three different places around the house. The one in the hallway, (next to the bin of shoes she pees on) seems to be her favorite, but even still sometimes she pees on stuff like the shoes or my kids’ backpacks that are just a few feet away. In fact most of it, about 90%, happens within the same 10 foot radius. We have tried using enzymes and other sprays to cover the smell. Two weeks ago we went ahead and completely replaced the carpets and under padding. This morning she peed on my son’s new backpack that was on the new carpet. I am at a total loss right now. We have literally spent well over a $1000.00 dealing with this. The vets have both told us that this is behavioral and there is something that the cat is unhappy about. I have no idea what it could be and at this point I’m about ready to start looking for someone willing to take her. Any advice would great.
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Apr 24, 2015 15:57
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We do have a couple of outdoor cats in our neighborhood. We see them around our house every once in a while. Is there a way to use some type of spray to keep them away? Yes we did get her spayed about a year after we got her. The cats get along OK. Our male cat is active a playful. The two cats cuddle and sleep together but they don't play together. Our female cat just spends most of her time laying around. She is hardly active at all and has been getting kinda fat. When the male cat tries to play with her she usually flips out an hisses at him. The litter box that she uses in the hall under the stairs is hers. The other cat doesn't use it at all. Do you think she could be peeing in the vicinity of that litter box to keep him away? If that is the case how do we fix that?
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Apr 24, 2015 22:26
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Just an update for anyone who may be having a similar issue. We did take her to the vet again. The vet was convinced that there is something in the environment causing her stress. She is probably trying to mark the area. It might even be her own brother that is getting on her nerves. We cleaned up the area around the litter and we make sure to not leave anything on the floor in those certain hotspots. It seems like she only pees in those spots if something is on the floor there. We also now have 4 litter boxes in four different places around the house. The cats do use all four of them. One of them is in our master bedroom because that seems to be a room she feels really safe in. Oddly that is not the one used the most. The situation is not ideal but it is better than having to give her up.
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Jul 13, 2015 21:52
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