Spray FAQ

Can someone point me to a good Spray FAQ? Our 5yo male has started
spraying the house. He has never done this before but I'm sure it has
something to do with adding the third cat, which he seemed to tolerate
well HOWEVER I guess not. The new kitten is a very "yang" female with
loads of energy. The male is a rather lethargic beast whose main form of
exercise is shaking his head from side to side watching the birds fly
outside the window. The male cat is an indoor-outdoors cat and the
female is indoors-only at this time. Anyway, the male lives to go
outdoors but I keep him in at night. The other night he was howling
howling howling to go outside and I wouldn't let him since it was past
9pm and he proceeded to spray a side chair right in front of me. Two
days later, he wants to go outside at night and instead of howling,
sprays the chair again.

Some of the possible causes: 1) stress from the new kitten; 2) needing to
maintain his Alpha cat status with a very yang female; 3) needing another
litter box even though I have one for each cat. What sounds most
probable and how do I proceed from here?

Noreen

Noreen,

My cat did the same thing very recently, though he is an only cat.

He was peeing in the linen basket, and that was something which he'd never
done before.

Thankfully some kind people replied to my post, and suggested I take him to
the vet to be checked up on as it sounded like an infection.

It actually turned out to be constipation, and he had a slight infection due
to the stress. He was peeing in the wrong places as a 'cry for help'.

It's probably worth taking him to the vet to be checked over, and take a
urine sample, if you can!

Becky


"Noreen Cooper" wrote in message
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Can someone point me to a good Spray FAQ? Our 5yo male has started
spraying the house. He has never done this before but I'm sure it has
something to do with adding the third cat, which he seemed to tolerate
well HOWEVER I guess not. The new kitten is a very "yang" female with
loads of energy. The male is a rather lethargic beast whose main form of
exercise is shaking his head from side to side watching the birds fly
outside the window. The male cat is an indoor-outdoors cat and the
female is indoors-only at this time. Anyway, the male lives to go
outdoors but I keep him in at night. The other night he was howling
howling howling to go outside and I wouldn't let him since it was past
9pm and he proceeded to spray a side chair right in front of me. Two
days later, he wants to go outside at night and instead of howling,
sprays the chair again.

Some of the possible causes: 1) stress from the new kitten; 2) needing to
maintain his Alpha cat status with a very yang female; 3) needing another
litter box even though I have one for each cat. What sounds most
probable and how do I proceed from here?

Noreen

Noreen,

My cat did the same thing very recently, though he is an only cat.

He was peeing in the linen basket, and that was something which he'd never
done before.

Thankfully some kind people replied to my post, and suggested I take him to
the vet to be checked up on as it sounded like an infection.

It actually turned out to be constipation, and he had a slight infection due
to the stress. He was peeing in the wrong places as a 'cry for help'.

It's probably worth taking him to the vet to be checked over, and take a
urine sample, if you can!

Becky


"Noreen Cooper" wrote in message
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Can someone point me to a good Spray FAQ? Our 5yo male has started
spraying the house. He has never done this before but I'm sure it has
something to do with adding the third cat, which he seemed to tolerate
well HOWEVER I guess not. The new kitten is a very "yang" female with
loads of energy. The male is a rather lethargic beast whose main form of
exercise is shaking his head from side to side watching the birds fly
outside the window. The male cat is an indoor-outdoors cat and the
female is indoors-only at this time. Anyway, the male lives to go
outdoors but I keep him in at night. The other night he was howling
howling howling to go outside and I wouldn't let him since it was past
9pm and he proceeded to spray a side chair right in front of me. Two
days later, he wants to go outside at night and instead of howling,
sprays the chair again.

Some of the possible causes: 1) stress from the new kitten; 2) needing to
maintain his Alpha cat status with a very yang female; 3) needing another
litter box even though I have one for each cat. What sounds most
probable and how do I proceed from here?

Noreen

Rebecca B wrote:

: It's probably worth taking him to the vet to be checked over, and take a
: urine sample, if you can!

Glad to hear the cause of the spraying in your cat was so easily
identified. When you say "take a urine sample" do you mean take a lump
of wet kitty litter to the vet?

Noreen

Rebecca B wrote:

: It's probably worth taking him to the vet to be checked over, and take a
: urine sample, if you can!

Glad to hear the cause of the spraying in your cat was so easily
identified. When you say "take a urine sample" do you mean take a lump
of wet kitty litter to the vet?

Noreen

Noreen,

What we had to do was clean out the linen basket (where he had been peeing)
and clean his litter tray, washed out as much dust of the litter out of the
tray as we could.

We had to just then wait, and thankfully after the 3rd time of our cat going
into the litterless litter tray, he did a pee pee. The vet gave us one of
those sample bottles, as it needs to be sterile.

I only put this as our cat had an empty bladder, so the vet couldnt take a
fresh sample when we took him to the vet the first time to say that we
thought something might be wrong.

Becky

"Noreen Cooper" wrote in message
...
Rebecca B wrote:

: It's probably worth taking him to the vet to be checked over, and take a
: urine sample, if you can!

Glad to hear the cause of the spraying in your cat was so easily
identified. When you say "take a urine sample" do you mean take a lump
of wet kitty litter to the vet?

Noreen

Noreen,

What we had to do was clean out the linen basket (where he had been peeing)
and clean his litter tray, washed out as much dust of the litter out of the
tray as we could.

We had to just then wait, and thankfully after the 3rd time of our cat going
into the litterless litter tray, he did a pee pee. The vet gave us one of
those sample bottles, as it needs to be sterile.

I only put this as our cat had an empty bladder, so the vet couldnt take a
fresh sample when we took him to the vet the first time to say that we
thought something might be wrong.

Becky

"Noreen Cooper" wrote in message
...
Rebecca B wrote:

: It's probably worth taking him to the vet to be checked over, and take a
: urine sample, if you can!

Glad to hear the cause of the spraying in your cat was so easily
identified. When you say "take a urine sample" do you mean take a lump
of wet kitty litter to the vet?

Noreen