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My cat Tabby who is 6 years old - 7 late this year doesn't get any sun.
He usually did but he likes to mark and we had to stop his access to a sunny study for a bit.
He is not desexed but we were told it isn't necessarily going to stop spraying.
We have a definitely desexed male cat 3 years old as well and we got him just recently so Tabby spraying happened before him.
He sprays too but only when he lived outside. This cat named Jack is now also a strictly indoor cat.
The other cat we have Snowy is Tabby's litter brother and doesn't mark and has never in his life !! sprayed on vertical surfaces and he also is intact.
So Tabby initially didn't go to the study for a few weeks on and off because he liked to spray there and we didn't know how to stop him. Snowy never goes there and lives in the large living room and kitchen: so this was not directly related to Snowy. Tabby got territorial age 2 and that's when some of this spraying started...but.. actually no he first banished Snowy from the bed with us, then from the room and later just attacked any time he saw him/ so we separated them. Snowy was a caring brother: he used to be reallly loving to Tabby, looked after him and literally moped around when Tabby was away sick for 5 days from a reaction to flea medicine at the vets.
Then as we brought Jack in he now lives in the study and Tabby in a really small like 6 square meters bedroom.
They also have a 4 square meter corridor. The other bedroom, where Jack is, is about 11 square meters and the living room is 30 square meters..
so Jack now is either locked in the bedroom or he has that big bedroom, the corridor and the bathroom where he likes to sleep or sit and look out the window at the outside (during which time Tabby is locked in a 6 square meter room).
Since Tabby realised Jack is his new flatmate he refuses to come out "his" bedroom -even when Jack is locked away in the bigger bedroom.
Initially we just planned to close Jack in the bathroom for an hour or so and let Tabby have his sun baking in the big bedroom. However when we bring Tabby out he just runs back into his small bedroom. He refused to go anywhere not even the corridor since he once ran out and saw Jack. When I take him out he runs back in: initially he smelled around, hissed and ran and now just runs.
This small bedroom is situated in a part of the building that doesn't get the sun- there is still light, but no direct sun because of the shape of the building and that room is in its interior side of the square shaped building where the sun is blocked by either the trees or the building itself.
I was worried - do they need the sun for vitamin D? Two vets gave me opposing info.
He usually did but he likes to mark and we had to stop his access to a sunny study for a bit.
He is not desexed but we were told it isn't necessarily going to stop spraying.
We have a definitely desexed male cat 3 years old as well and we got him just recently so Tabby spraying happened before him.
He sprays too but only when he lived outside. This cat named Jack is now also a strictly indoor cat.
The other cat we have Snowy is Tabby's litter brother and doesn't mark and has never in his life !! sprayed on vertical surfaces and he also is intact.
So Tabby initially didn't go to the study for a few weeks on and off because he liked to spray there and we didn't know how to stop him. Snowy never goes there and lives in the large living room and kitchen: so this was not directly related to Snowy. Tabby got territorial age 2 and that's when some of this spraying started...but.. actually no he first banished Snowy from the bed with us, then from the room and later just attacked any time he saw him/ so we separated them. Snowy was a caring brother: he used to be reallly loving to Tabby, looked after him and literally moped around when Tabby was away sick for 5 days from a reaction to flea medicine at the vets.
Then as we brought Jack in he now lives in the study and Tabby in a really small like 6 square meters bedroom.
They also have a 4 square meter corridor. The other bedroom, where Jack is, is about 11 square meters and the living room is 30 square meters..
so Jack now is either locked in the bedroom or he has that big bedroom, the corridor and the bathroom where he likes to sleep or sit and look out the window at the outside (during which time Tabby is locked in a 6 square meter room).
Since Tabby realised Jack is his new flatmate he refuses to come out "his" bedroom -even when Jack is locked away in the bigger bedroom.
Initially we just planned to close Jack in the bathroom for an hour or so and let Tabby have his sun baking in the big bedroom. However when we bring Tabby out he just runs back into his small bedroom. He refused to go anywhere not even the corridor since he once ran out and saw Jack. When I take him out he runs back in: initially he smelled around, hissed and ran and now just runs.
This small bedroom is situated in a part of the building that doesn't get the sun- there is still light, but no direct sun because of the shape of the building and that room is in its interior side of the square shaped building where the sun is blocked by either the trees or the building itself.
I was worried - do they need the sun for vitamin D? Two vets gave me opposing info.
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