Sunflower wrote:

No, it's reality.

What a bunch of bull****. It doesn't have to be and killing a healthy
cat that has a yet undetermined cause for her issue is WRONG.

I'm sorry if you don't
like it. THe OP wants to rehome the cat.
Period. He wasn't looking for
suggestions as to try to deal with the
problem. He "says" the vet found no
problems, and although I don't know what
types of testing the OP had done, at
this point, it doesn't matter.

Of course it matters, but you're so intent on making sure this cat is
murdered you didn't even bother to ask.

He wants the cat gone.

Maybe so, but often people are so stressed by what's happening they
don't feel they have any other choice. Often when they receive support,
feedback and advice from those of us who have actual experience in
dealing with this issue, they have hope and go on to find a SOLUTION
that doesn't involve KILLING. The whole reason "most of us," with the
obvious exception of YOU, are here is to help people and give advice on
how the cat can keep its home. This is not
rec.pets.cats-kill-the-cat-because-you-can't-bother-to-find-a-solution.
It's a rescue group, and part of that means helping people find a way to
keep their cats.

And as far as "medication"
to cure the anxiety urination issues, it
only works about 20% of the time.

More bull****. There are many medications used to deal with this issue
and 20% is not accurate for many of the ones I have experience with. FYI
the Tuft's behavior clinic reports a 90%+ success rate using Prozac.
There are other medications that are nearly as successful, and a lot of
it also depends on the cat. I have been in rescue for over 25 years and
currently have 24 cats, several of which came with urination issues. I
have also had cats in the past with same. I have had 100% success in
using medication, and have been successful using diet and supplements to
control two other cats with interstitial cystitis, which I suspect the
OP's cat may have.
I also know several people who have also had a 100% success rate using
medication, including a cat that sprayed for 6 years and was confined to
a basement for the last two years because he was destroying the house.
He was put on Prozac and has not had one single spraying incident since
and is now allowed in the rest of the house and he's been on it for over
a year now.

Yes, I
know from personal experience on that
one, as well as working with our Humane
Society.

Apparently you haven't had much, or done you homework.

There isn't one single sane person on
the planet who *wants* to live in a home
with a cat peeing all over it. Sure, we
do sometimes when we think it's a short
term issue that can be cured, but other
than making the cat live in isolation in
a room fully able to be washed down and
disinfected constantly, there has to be
some sort of progress in the behavior
for it to be at all tolerated.

For progress to be made there has to be investigation of why it happens.
Asking what has been done so far and offering ideas may help save this
cat, regardless of what the OP originally says. You want to go straight
to *killing* this cat. It's disgusting and if this is how you view
things you have ABSOLUTELY NO BUSINESS being in *any* aspect of rescue.

We share
our homes with animals on the
expectation that they will modify their
natural instincts somewhat to suit our
human fastidiousness.

That's completely the wrong expectation, and nobody that thinks this way
should have animals. *Intelligent* people understand that you have to
provide an environment for the cat that allows it to exhibit "natural
behaviors" in a way that allows us to coexist peacefully. That's why we
have litterboxes and scratching posts, etc. You can't force or expect a
cat to be anything other than a cat.

If the animal
can't adapt to being in a home, then all
that is left is being outside,
euthanasia, or life in a cage.
A good
death is preferable to a bad life in my
opinion and I consider a life spent in a
cage a bad life.

That's why you make the commitment to get the cat out of the cage and
into a home, not KILL it! Yes, some cats are harder to home, but it can
be done and
it's wrong to kill a cat when there are still many things to try.
Apparently you don't think so and would rather play executioner.

So the truth is, you have a unadoptible
animal to anyone who knows the story.

Not necessarily, and especially when not everything has been tried.

What is going to happen to this animal?
He'll dump it off at the shelter where
it'll be euthanized by strangers or
someone else picks the animal out not
knowing the past behavior to give a home
to and starts to experience the same
behavior, and repeats the cycle. How
cruel to the cat is that?

Or he could try medication, and try a diet to control possible
interstitial cystitis (which is VERY easy) and the cat may stop the
behavior.

Better to accept the full responsibility
of pet ownership and have the animal
euthanized than to pass the problem
along to strangers and totally
traumatize the cat in it's last moments.


Accepting full responsibility of pet ownership does not include KILLING
a healthy animal that has a once every few weeks peeing incident. A
*responsible* pet owner understands that cats don't do this for no
reason, and will ask for help trying to find a solution. *Responsible *
people don't murder animals because they can't be bothered to do a few
simple things that might very well correct the problem. THAT'S reality.

Megan



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