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Siamese's urination habit
I have a Siamese cat whose name is Dexter. He is approximately 10
years old. We welcomed him into our family when he was about 3 or 4. He was in horrible condition -- his nails were not taken care of, his hair was horrible, etc. It took him about 6 months to adjust to us. We moved after having him about 4 years. His transition to the new place was great. No problems at all. We moved again at the end of September. We had to board him for a week because the owners of our new house had not left it yet. When we did move in, again we had no difficulties with the cat. I am a teacher and I was at home for two weeks around the holidays. Sure enough, when Dexter was left alone again after I returned to work, he peed by the door. This happened off and on for a couple of weeks before I took him to the vet. The doctor put him on antibiotics for a week (although he did not test his urine because he could not get Dexter to go). He did take his blood. The peeing continued so we took him in again and this time the doctor was able to get his urine. The urinalysis was clear so the vet said it was probably behavioral. He recommended we put the cat in the laundry room (this is the only place in our house where we could put him in - the bathrooms are too small and the kitchen does not have doors) whenever we go out and also at night. The problem is now that Dexter is retaliating. After being in the room Thursday night to Friday afternoon (husband worked 6am to 2pm), he ran up the stairs and peed on my son's mat that is under his chair. This morning we had to grocery shop and when we let him out of the laundry room when we got back, he'd thrown up several times in the room. My problem is I think that putting him in the room (which is supposedly supposed to retrain him) is making him hostile towards us (hence the peeing in the dining room) and probably stressing him out (the throwing up). I plan to call the vet again tomorrow to see if he has any other ideas. We do plan on taking up the piece of carpet in front of the door and putting linoleum (we'd planned to do that even before that cat was peeing there). Hopefully that will get rid of the smell and cut down on his instinct to pee there. Is there anything else we can try? Any tests or problems the vet could have missed? He did say that Dexter had lost 5 ounces in two weeks. (Now weighing about 9 pounds). But the blood and urine was clear. Thanks, Tiggerific |
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