As a self-appointed cat whisperer, you're having a power struggle with her. Are you consistant with your behavior? Does she have enough entertainment? Does she spend a lot of time indoors alone? Does she get to go outside?
Alternately, it could also be something medical where she doesn't have bladder control.
One thing I have to watch for is keeping my dryer door closed if ther are clothes in there. My boys will piss on the clean clothes to "claim" me. The two brothers have a strong rivelry going, so by claiming me, they get power over thair brother.
I haven't let her outside since we've only been here two weeks and she's still not fixed. We're home all day and I have a male (fixed) cat as well. She's never really taken to us. She doesn't let the kids or Mike near her but late at night if I'm up alone she'll come and cuddle and let me pet her.
She probably doesn't have enough entertainment because I don't play with her since I don't see her during the day, she hides out for the most part.
At the old house I let her go outside and she seemed happy to be outside most of the time. I don't know if she's pregnant or not (can she get pregnant before her first heat?)
I don't know what's up, she's not adjusting here obviously. She never peed at the old place, used the cat box, unless it was dirty and she'd poop on clothes that were left on the floor, but the house never smelled like cat piss. This one has smelled since day one.
Sounds like trauma with the move. See if you can pick up some feather toys for her (most female cats are bird cats). They also have DVDs for cats that my mom's cat really enjoys
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Sometimes if you get a cat fixed they stop peeing on stuff. My fixed cat has only peed on things once before, and that was when we had a new baby, he peed on her stuff a few times.
So, could be adjusting and marking territory after the move as well as just being an unfixed cat and therefore more prone to doing it to begin with.
she probably has some sort of infection, and is thinking that using the cat box makes her hurt when it's actually peeing that does that. that happened with our cat and (in addition to some aggresive medicating) we had to retrain him to use the box.
I would get a UTI ruled out, but it sounds like it is nerves from the move. Cats are skittish little creatures, and when they are scared, they pee to mark and feel safe. It's really normal. The problem is that it will continue if they keep smelling it. We got our cat to stop by adding an extra litter box, cleaning them really well, and when he did pee elsewhere, cleaning it like crazy with baking soda and peroxide and then using a citrus air freshener on the spot--supposedly cats hate citrus.
Worst comes to worst, the vet can prescribe kitty prozac to calm her the fuck down. It really, really works, from what I hear.
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As a self-appointed cat whisperer, you're having a power struggle with her. Are you consistant with your behavior? Does she have enough entertainment? Does she spend a lot of time indoors alone? Does she get to go outside?
Alternately, it could also be something medical where she doesn't have bladder control.
One thing I have to watch for is keeping my dryer door closed if ther are clothes in there. My boys will piss on the clean clothes to "claim" me. The two brothers have a strong rivelry going, so by claiming me, they get power over thair brother.
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She probably doesn't have enough entertainment because I don't play with her since I don't see her during the day, she hides out for the most part.
At the old house I let her go outside and she seemed happy to be outside most of the time. I don't know if she's pregnant or not (can she get pregnant before her first heat?)
I don't know what's up, she's not adjusting here obviously. She never peed at the old place, used the cat box, unless it was dirty and she'd poop on clothes that were left on the floor, but the house never smelled like cat piss. This one has smelled since day one.
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So, could be adjusting and marking territory after the move as well as just being an unfixed cat and therefore more prone to doing it to begin with.
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Worst comes to worst, the vet can prescribe kitty prozac to calm her the fuck down. It really, really works, from what I hear.
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pissing cats are the worst! that smell, it never goes away.
ugh. i hate having to make those kinds of decisions... :(
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