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Hey everyone,
Yet another inappropriate elimination story here, but maybe with some twists:
My little cat, Hobbs, is turning 10 this year. We adopted him when he was 4 - a small shorthair mix with a nerve-damaged eye. He's very calm, preferring to be within eyesight of us, though he does cuddle up to my wife, who he lived with for the first couple of years we've had him.
The problem with my little guy is that about 3 months after we got him, he started to urinate on the wall. Very specifically, any carpeted floor with a solid wall next to it.
I tried everything: different litter boxes, different locations, different litter, Feliway, using Nature's Miracle, playing with him more, getting him cat trees, playing with him less, trying as hard as I can to give him a consistent routine (though as a tax preparer myself and a nurse wife, sometimes the routines change).
He has moved around a bit - he moved to a new place almost every year until we finally bought the house we live in now - been here about 2.5 years - so I understood there might be stress involved here.
He is currently on half a pill of Prozac a day. But he's still peeing everywhere. He'll go bouts of maybe a week or two without any incident, but this last week alone he's used his box maybe once in 7 days.
I have him on a mix of Cat Attract and World's Best litter, which sit in our guest room tub, one very large box, one smaller, high-sided box. The addition of World's Best is new - perhaps the last month or so, but it's only been the last week that he's been consistently not using the box.
Any suggestions?
Yet another inappropriate elimination story here, but maybe with some twists:
My little cat, Hobbs, is turning 10 this year. We adopted him when he was 4 - a small shorthair mix with a nerve-damaged eye. He's very calm, preferring to be within eyesight of us, though he does cuddle up to my wife, who he lived with for the first couple of years we've had him.
The problem with my little guy is that about 3 months after we got him, he started to urinate on the wall. Very specifically, any carpeted floor with a solid wall next to it.
I tried everything: different litter boxes, different locations, different litter, Feliway, using Nature's Miracle, playing with him more, getting him cat trees, playing with him less, trying as hard as I can to give him a consistent routine (though as a tax preparer myself and a nurse wife, sometimes the routines change).
He has moved around a bit - he moved to a new place almost every year until we finally bought the house we live in now - been here about 2.5 years - so I understood there might be stress involved here.
He is currently on half a pill of Prozac a day. But he's still peeing everywhere. He'll go bouts of maybe a week or two without any incident, but this last week alone he's used his box maybe once in 7 days.
I have him on a mix of Cat Attract and World's Best litter, which sit in our guest room tub, one very large box, one smaller, high-sided box. The addition of World's Best is new - perhaps the last month or so, but it's only been the last week that he's been consistently not using the box.
Any suggestions?
