OK, posting this on behalf of my cousin who is having some problems with one of her 3 cats now that her roommate got a kitten.
Biggs is 8, was with cousin since he was a kitten, was neutered probably at about 6 months old. Cousin and husband now also have an older male and a younger female (they had the 3 cats for several years, nothing new there), everything's ok... Biggs had a spraying spat a year or so ago, peed on clothes on the floor, in the closets, ON other stuff, that sort of thing. Vet checked him out, no health issues including no UTI, eventually he stopped, except he would still pee in the closet if someone left the door open.
Now cousin's roommate got a boy kitten about a month ago, it is living in roommate's bedroom still til he gets shots and stuff soon, but he comes out for supervised interaction with the 3 other cats. Biggs has started spraying on anything on the floor, speakers, bags, guitar case, box another cat sleeps in, clothes hamper, in the closet still if open, even on low hanging drapes, mostly in front of cousin, husband and roommate, but not always.
Do you think maybe he's marking up the whole house even though the kitten is only in the one room still?
More importantly, do you have any actual solutions to the spraying or know where i might find a solution? Cousin doesn't want to do Feliway diffusers because of the price and the fact that she's got friends who tried them and they did nothing.
Thanks for any help you can offer!!
ps- New news today, he didn't pee/spray yesterday at all, and he went in the yard for a bit with cousin, which he hasn't done since last summer when they were at a different house with a nice big yard. He loved being out. Maybe he'll be ok with some outside time? Or is it all to do with the kitten?
Biggs is 8, was with cousin since he was a kitten, was neutered probably at about 6 months old. Cousin and husband now also have an older male and a younger female (they had the 3 cats for several years, nothing new there), everything's ok... Biggs had a spraying spat a year or so ago, peed on clothes on the floor, in the closets, ON other stuff, that sort of thing. Vet checked him out, no health issues including no UTI, eventually he stopped, except he would still pee in the closet if someone left the door open.
Now cousin's roommate got a boy kitten about a month ago, it is living in roommate's bedroom still til he gets shots and stuff soon, but he comes out for supervised interaction with the 3 other cats. Biggs has started spraying on anything on the floor, speakers, bags, guitar case, box another cat sleeps in, clothes hamper, in the closet still if open, even on low hanging drapes, mostly in front of cousin, husband and roommate, but not always.
Do you think maybe he's marking up the whole house even though the kitten is only in the one room still?
More importantly, do you have any actual solutions to the spraying or know where i might find a solution? Cousin doesn't want to do Feliway diffusers because of the price and the fact that she's got friends who tried them and they did nothing.
Thanks for any help you can offer!!
ps- New news today, he didn't pee/spray yesterday at all, and he went in the yard for a bit with cousin, which he hasn't done since last summer when they were at a different house with a nice big yard. He loved being out. Maybe he'll be ok with some outside time? Or is it all to do with the kitten?