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Hello gang,
My first (human) child is due in a month. We’ve put the bassinet in our bedroom and made it a kitty free zone at night to prepare for the new arrival. So far it’s not going well.
One of our cats stealthily peed in the dog bed in the bedroom one morning when the litter robot was stuck mid-cycle and he didn’t have access to the litter box. We replaced the dog bed and he peed in the brand new one a few days later. Then we washed the new bed and he peed in it a third time, plus the wall, plus the shutters on the window, and the bed isn’t super absorbent so he stomped in the puddle and tracked pee paw prints all across the tiled house.
Both cats went to the vet today to rule out illness. The peeing isn’t a medical problem. There is no inappropriate urination anywhere else in the house. The vet said it’s either a super-strong attraction to the pheromones that I can’t seem to thoroughly clean, or someone is mad that their prior hangout is off limits and they’re doing it out of spite. Since they’ve come home from the vet today there’s been a lot of hissing at each other. God help me when the baby actually gets here.
The vet recommended Feliway. Does it work? Do I need the Classic, or Multicat, or both? What else can I do to ease the transition to a new family dynamic?
My first (human) child is due in a month. We’ve put the bassinet in our bedroom and made it a kitty free zone at night to prepare for the new arrival. So far it’s not going well.
One of our cats stealthily peed in the dog bed in the bedroom one morning when the litter robot was stuck mid-cycle and he didn’t have access to the litter box. We replaced the dog bed and he peed in the brand new one a few days later. Then we washed the new bed and he peed in it a third time, plus the wall, plus the shutters on the window, and the bed isn’t super absorbent so he stomped in the puddle and tracked pee paw prints all across the tiled house.
Both cats went to the vet today to rule out illness. The peeing isn’t a medical problem. There is no inappropriate urination anywhere else in the house. The vet said it’s either a super-strong attraction to the pheromones that I can’t seem to thoroughly clean, or someone is mad that their prior hangout is off limits and they’re doing it out of spite. Since they’ve come home from the vet today there’s been a lot of hissing at each other. God help me when the baby actually gets here.
The vet recommended Feliway. Does it work? Do I need the Classic, or Multicat, or both? What else can I do to ease the transition to a new family dynamic?