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Can catnip cause urinating?
I have 2 cats. They are brother and sister and about 15 1/2 years old. The male has been diabetic for about 8 years and other then being fat is doing pretty good. I give him two shots a day. The female has shown very early signs of kidney disease but nothing bad yet. Here is the problem. About a year ago for the first time in her life she urinated on the carpet in the family room. I had her checked out and she had a urinary tract infection. I gave her meds and it cleared up. A few months later she urinated on the carpet a few more times. I had her checked out and she was fine. A month or so ago it started happening frequently. I had the vet check her out and I even shelled out $275 for an ultra sound. The blood tests all came back fine and the ultra sound looked ok too. Its been about 3 weeks since she was at the vet and she hasn't had an accident since then. There have been no stressful changes in her life. She has lived in same house with her brother for 8 years. I keep the litter box clean at all times and added a second litter box too. I have been racking my brain trying to think of anything that might be causing her to go outside the litter box. She always uses the litter box to move her bowels. She only has "accidents" urinating A year or two ago somebody gave me two soft pads that the cats could lay on. Those mats had catnip in them and Betty my female at kept urinating on them and I eventually took them off the floor so they couldn't use them anymore. I have always left a few toys on the floor in the family room that are soft and when they were bought had catnip in them. I have had those toys literally for years but my male cat Barney likes using them as a pillow so I never threw them away. I started wondering if there was a link between Bettys urinating on the carpet and the catnip smell in the toys even though the catnip shouldn't even exist anymore after all these years. I decided to pick up all the toys and left nothing on the carpet in that room. She has not urinated on the carpet in the three weeks since I picked up those very old toys. The bottom line is has anybody every heard of catnip in anyway causing cats to urinate where they usually do not? I hope this all makes sense Thanks Steve -- Steve's page of Fun links http://www.stevesfunlinks.com/ See Steve with famous people like the Bradys http://www.flash.net/~steve84/index1.htm Steve's page of over 200 Disney links! http://www.flash.net/~steve84/Disney.htm |
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