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Sorry this is probably going to be long but I want to give all info that might be helpful. My oldest male cat, Stray, is causing me all kinds of problems this year, or so it seems. He is now peeing, not spraying, but peeing out of the litter box. And I did a search on the forum and google for help on this, but so far nothing has really helped. This is why I am about to put a cat door in the window and allow the cats to go on the patio and have 2 more litter boxes.
Setup: 3 litter boxes in the garage with tidy cat clumping litter. 4 fixed male cats that have been together for 3, almost 4 years. There is a feliway not more than 8 feet from his chosen pee sites: my desk, office chair, and the dog’s bed. All are inside cats. Stray does NOT have a UTI and has done this before.
All cat boxes are scooped twice a day and bleached/scrubbed once a month. They were just cleaned a few days ago and the litter was 100% replaced.
History: when I first got Stray as an adult Tom cat, I had him fixed and made him into an indoor kitty. He was rather unhappy with that and repaid my kindness of taking him in and spending over $500 on him by, what else? Peeing on my rather $$ bed and ME. Took him to the vet and the vet said it was because he was angry and told me I should start letting him outside. This worked until my house burned down a year or two later. Now I live in a new place were it is not safe to let him outside, so since August of 2010, he has been a 100% inside kitty. He was just on clavamox for an upper respiratory infection-that also treats UTI’s.
I should also add that once in a blue moon, Stray has ALWAYS peed out of the box. Like once every 6 months or so he would randomly pee on a pillow or a rug-no reason behind it.
What has changed: #1. I kicked out my drug addicted now EX-BF of 5years-a person this cat really liked, this happened in Aug and Stray started Peeing out of the box a lot more shortly after this. #2. I moved the litter boxes from my “office” to the garage via a cat door and it took stray a LONG time to figure out the cat door-he spent some time locked in the garage until he finally figured out how to use the cat door. #3. I moved a bed into the former office and turned it into a guest room-Stray peed on the bed so that room is now closed off from the cats. #4. There is a rescue cat, a fixed female, that is currently staying with me until I can find her a new home and Stray does NOT like her. I think this new cat is really driving him nuts because his peeing has really increased and seems to be centered around the sliding glass door-this is where the feliway, my desk, cat tree, and dog bed are within view of.
Future setup/hopeful fix but not sure: I already purchased another cat door for a window and will soon be allowing the cats 100% access to my back patio that has pet screen and there will be an addition 2 litter boxes. This cat door will be here on Saturday.
My fear: that even adding more litter boxes, space, and outdoor access will not solve his issue. He is an older male that was neutered late in life and he is pretty set in his ways. He just litrally peed on the dog bed right in front of me. My office chair is destroyed beyond repair and soon my rather expensive desk is going to have to be tossed to if he keeps urinating on it.
Any and all help is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Missina
Setup: 3 litter boxes in the garage with tidy cat clumping litter. 4 fixed male cats that have been together for 3, almost 4 years. There is a feliway not more than 8 feet from his chosen pee sites: my desk, office chair, and the dog’s bed. All are inside cats. Stray does NOT have a UTI and has done this before.
All cat boxes are scooped twice a day and bleached/scrubbed once a month. They were just cleaned a few days ago and the litter was 100% replaced.
History: when I first got Stray as an adult Tom cat, I had him fixed and made him into an indoor kitty. He was rather unhappy with that and repaid my kindness of taking him in and spending over $500 on him by, what else? Peeing on my rather $$ bed and ME. Took him to the vet and the vet said it was because he was angry and told me I should start letting him outside. This worked until my house burned down a year or two later. Now I live in a new place were it is not safe to let him outside, so since August of 2010, he has been a 100% inside kitty. He was just on clavamox for an upper respiratory infection-that also treats UTI’s.
I should also add that once in a blue moon, Stray has ALWAYS peed out of the box. Like once every 6 months or so he would randomly pee on a pillow or a rug-no reason behind it.
What has changed: #1. I kicked out my drug addicted now EX-BF of 5years-a person this cat really liked, this happened in Aug and Stray started Peeing out of the box a lot more shortly after this. #2. I moved the litter boxes from my “office” to the garage via a cat door and it took stray a LONG time to figure out the cat door-he spent some time locked in the garage until he finally figured out how to use the cat door. #3. I moved a bed into the former office and turned it into a guest room-Stray peed on the bed so that room is now closed off from the cats. #4. There is a rescue cat, a fixed female, that is currently staying with me until I can find her a new home and Stray does NOT like her. I think this new cat is really driving him nuts because his peeing has really increased and seems to be centered around the sliding glass door-this is where the feliway, my desk, cat tree, and dog bed are within view of.
Future setup/hopeful fix but not sure: I already purchased another cat door for a window and will soon be allowing the cats 100% access to my back patio that has pet screen and there will be an addition 2 litter boxes. This cat door will be here on Saturday.
My fear: that even adding more litter boxes, space, and outdoor access will not solve his issue. He is an older male that was neutered late in life and he is pretty set in his ways. He just litrally peed on the dog bed right in front of me. My office chair is destroyed beyond repair and soon my rather expensive desk is going to have to be tossed to if he keeps urinating on it.
Any and all help is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Missina