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Hello Everyone, so happy to see such a great community here, I hope you guys have the time and insight to help me with my buddy Maverick.
High Level Summary:
What are my other potential solutions?
High Level Summary:
- Awesome 9 year old male tabby cat (Maverick) has started to howl relatively constantly in a begging fashion and is intermittently peeing on random items (HE PEED ON A LOAF OF BREAD ON TOP OF THE MICROWAVE TODAY!!!!).
- He just doesn't seem happy...
- His pee looks normal, no blood or discoloration visible.
- He appears otherwise totally healthy (eats like a champ, drinks, poops, pee, has energy, is affectionate etc).
- His sister Marcy hisses and howls at him WAY more than she normally used to... He's really pissing her off these days and neither of them are settling in.
- Has a history of peeing on things, but can mostly be blamed on me for not cleaning litter.
- He is very overweight and always wants fed, I have him and his sister tightly rationed on a timed feeder.
- Food type, meal frequency and size has remained constant.
- Litter may have changed, but I've never been consistent with litter and I'm sure I've used this one many times in the past.
- Recently moved to a new smaller home (1400 ft^2 -> 1000 ft^2) but we've lived in 650 ft^2 apartments together in the past for many years.
- Most of our furniture has changed (new furniture to fit the smaller home).
- Old house had a small enclosed yard with grass which they were allowed to hang out in, new home only has concrete patio.
- More affection given to him (he's always gotten all he's asked for!)
- Additional play time...
- More food...
- Extra out door patio time and also the ability to roam around completely outside for the first time with no supervision.
- Extra vigilant on litter cleaning.
- Built an awesome cat tower for them to climb on...
What are my other potential solutions?
- Second litter box?
- Keep closer eye on litter type?
- ...??...??