New member in major need of help!!!

Hi my name is Andie and I am new here and need some help. This may be long so please bear with me. I have 4 cats, a 7 year old female, two 2 year old males and one 1 year old male.About a year ago we moved into a new house. The males had not been neutered yet and we did not have the money to get it done. We had not had them neutered yet and didn't have the money to do it. Of course they started spraying the house and we had no choice except to put them into a bedroom. The 2 older males had fights on occasion, about once a month. Last month we finally got the opportunity to get them fixed. I was so excited because I knew they could come out and be more a part of the family. I think they are worse now then before. They are more aggressive now then before. They are spraying everything and they are still trying to hump my female cat. I had a male 9 years ago and as soon as he started spraying and screaming we had him neutered and he was the perfect cat after that. He never sprayed again, he wasn't aggressive and had no interest in females. I am completely at my wits end. Why are they still doing all of this? It is like they were never fixed. PLEASE HELP!

I am not sure but one month may still be too short a time for hormones to settle. My Wawa is very territorial, even after he was neutered. He has fights with Buddy and Ashley (2 strays also neutered). This has been going on since May! Signs of improvement are very slow. The only thing that seems to work for me is to put Wawa (the aggressor) on timeout.
Now Ashley was Mr. Sprayer before the operation. I still see him going thru the motions although nothing comes out (thank God).
You can also try Feliway and make sure all the "sprayed" areas have been thoroughly cleaned.
Good luck!

Buy Natures Miracle for the sprayed spots, buy Feliway plug ins and sprays for your house. When they went to be neutered they came back home smelling different, they didn't recognize each other and that may have set this off.

I would start reintroducing them again. Use pure vanilla extract on each cat to they smell alike. Go slow, treat it like they have never seen each other before. When you say they fight, how bad are they really going at it? Is there bloodshed and scratches on them afterwards? My cats play really rough sometimes and it looks like they are fighting, especially when one hisses or growls.

Are they always going at each other or do they sometimes sleep next to each other and other times they seem to want to kill each other?

For the humping the female, it may be a dominence thing but it could also be that their hormones haven't completely left their systems yet. Is the female spayed? If not find a low cost clinic (we can help you find one if you like) and get her done because not just for her health, but it still may be confusing the males.

Thank ya'll so much for your advice. I will definately try the suggestions. And yes they are really fighting scratches and all. Sometimes it takes quite a bit to seperate them. I usually try spraying them with a water bottle first, but it doesn't faze them. Then I get the broom and try to pry them apart. Before they were neutered they got along part of the time or avoided each other completely and then there would be an occasinal fight. But since they have been home from the vet I can't have them in the same room together for a minute. The female has been spayed and won't allow them near her, theyusually catch her sleeping and try something.

ok then you are definately going to have to reintroduce them from step one. check the sticky's and find the one about introducing new cats. Do the vanilla extract and everything, especially buy some Feliway!

Oberon always humped Wilde, too, so we thought he must have been spayed later in life. She'd just stay there with a long-suffering look on her face, but it didn't hurt anything so we'd just crack a few jokes and leave them alone.

I'm all for Feliway, too, for the other problems.

Cheers, from
SwampWitch

Try all the above but you may not be able to solve the problem, as males who are neutered later in life, after they have established the spraying behaviour, sometimes never stop it. Your previous male, who was done early, never had a chance to get going! It doesn't smell so bad after neutering, but they can still do it. And yes, it can take up to two months before all the hormones settle down so you may have to wait for that too.

Originally Posted by Jen

ok then you are definately going to have to reintroduce them from step one. check the sticky's and find the one about introducing new cats. Do the vanilla extract and everything, especially buy some Feliway!

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Can you explain the vanilla extract thing to the poster (and me as well) I have a pretty good idea what to do, but if op hasn't heard of it before, then they may not know what to do, like how much do you use, how often, and where to use it on the cat. I mean it's probley like putting some on your hands and wiping the cat down or some thing, but for some one who hasn't any idea of what to do may end up giving kitty a bath in the stuff, LOL!
sorry if I sound like an idiot or some thing, but I have never had to do it, and chances are neither has the poster. Thanx