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Please Help On Male Spraying
We have a beautiful yellow male cat. He was about a year old when he came here & tried for a month to join our family. We finally gave in & had him neutered & all his shots. His health was very bad when he first came here, but he is fat & happy now. The problem is that he wants to be a house cat & we also want that. He gets along with our other house cats, but he sprays everyplace he can, every where in the house. I understand what he is doing & why. He want to claim his place here. Is there any way to stop this? I thought of a diaper, but he would be too embarressed. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Please answer by email as I hardly ever get to the news groups & thank you for taking the time to read this. PS We asked the Vet & he just shook his head. :-) |
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nail him with a bucket of water everytime
he'll catch on Medea wrote: We have a beautiful yellow male cat. He was about a year old when he came here & tried for a month to join our family. We finally gave in & had him neutered & all his shots. His health was very bad when he first came here, but he is fat & happy now. The problem is that he wants to be a house cat & we also want that. He gets along with our other house cats, but he sprays everyplace he can, every where in the house. I understand what he is doing & why. He want to claim his place here. Is there any way to stop this? I thought of a diaper, but he would be too embarressed. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Please answer by email as I hardly ever get to the news groups & thank you for taking the time to read this. PS We asked the Vet & he just shook his head. :-) |
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Start out by crating him, while you remove his pee smell from your
American dream (your house) Go head to head with him, sure.. it would be nice if there was a stop peeing on my post pill but.. you have to change his nature, you have to change his instinct the instinct to live must over-ride the instinct to mark territory yes, he must fear for his very life. Medea wrote: We have a beautiful yellow male cat. He was about a year old when he came here & tried for a month to join our family. We finally gave in & had him neutered & all his shots. His health was very bad when he first came here, but he is fat & happy now. The problem is that he wants to be a house cat & we also want that. He gets along with our other house cats, but he sprays everyplace he can, every where in the house. I understand what he is doing & why. He want to claim his place here. Is there any way to stop this? I thought of a diaper, but he would be too embarressed. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Please answer by email as I hardly ever get to the news groups & thank you for taking the time to read this. PS We asked the Vet & he just shook his head. :-) |
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Behave Barry
"Werther's Original" wrote in message ps.com... nail him with a bucket of water everytime he'll catch on Medea wrote: We have a beautiful yellow male cat. He was about a year old when he came here & tried for a month to join our family. We finally gave in & had him neutered & all his shots. His health was very bad when he first came here, but he is fat & happy now. The problem is that he wants to be a house cat & we also want that. He gets along with our other house cats, but he sprays everyplace he can, every where in the house. I understand what he is doing & why. He want to claim his place here. Is there any way to stop this? I thought of a diaper, but he would be too embarressed. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Please answer by email as I hardly ever get to the news groups & thank you for taking the time to read this. PS We asked the Vet & he just shook his head. :-) |
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Check your email old man
"Werther's Original" wrote in message oups.com... Start out by crating him, while you remove his pee smell from your American dream (your house) Go head to head with him, sure.. it would be nice if there was a stop peeing on my post pill but.. you have to change his nature, you have to change his instinct the instinct to live must over-ride the instinct to mark territory yes, he must fear for his very life. Medea wrote: We have a beautiful yellow male cat. He was about a year old when he came here & tried for a month to join our family. We finally gave in & had him neutered & all his shots. His health was very bad when he first came here, but he is fat & happy now. The problem is that he wants to be a house cat & we also want that. He gets along with our other house cats, but he sprays everyplace he can, every where in the house. I understand what he is doing & why. He want to claim his place here. Is there any way to stop this? I thought of a diaper, but he would be too embarressed. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Please answer by email as I hardly ever get to the news groups & thank you for taking the time to read this. PS We asked the Vet & he just shook his head. :-) |
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Matthew wrote: Check your email old man done that, check yours, lol |
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Medea, is this the vet that neutered him? I'm wondering if they got it
all, so to speak. Maybe have another vet look him over. You'll want to rule out that he does not have a urinary infection, too. Is he actually standing up and spraying or just peeing everywhere? If you rule out a medical problem and it is behavioral, many people have had good luck with Feliway dispensers to calm down their cats. Make sure you use a good odor neutralizer, like Nature's Miracle, to take care of the old spots so he doesn't smell it and try again. By the way, does he use the litter box at all? He might not like the litter. There's one called Cat Attract that is supposed to help kitties find the box. If it comes down to trying different things and nothing works, probably the last resort would be to talk to the vet about medication. There are some mood drugs for cats that help many use the box. Good luck, Rhonda Medea wrote: We have a beautiful yellow male cat. He was about a year old when he came here & tried for a month to join our family. We finally gave in & had him neutered & all his shots. His health was very bad when he first came here, but he is fat & happy now. The problem is that he wants to be a house cat & we also want that. He gets along with our other house cats, but he sprays everyplace he can, every where in the house. I understand what he is doing & why. He want to claim his place here. Is there any way to stop this? I thought of a diaper, but he would be too embarressed. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Please answer by email as I hardly ever get to the news groups & thank you for taking the time to read this. PS We asked the Vet & he just shook his head. :-) |
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Medea wrote: We have a beautiful yellow male cat. He was about a year old when he came here & tried for a month to join our family. We finally gave in & had him neutered & all his shots. His health was very bad when he first came here, but he is fat & happy now. The problem is that he wants to be a house cat & we also want that. He gets along with our other house cats, but he sprays everyplace he can, every where in the house. I understand what he is doing & why. He want to claim his place here. Is there any way to stop this? I thought of a diaper, but he would be too embarressed. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Please answer by email as I hardly ever get to the news groups & thank you for taking the time to read this. PS We asked the Vet & he just shook his head. :-) I'm HAPPY that he's still spraying for you. ****ing barbarian... You went and had his masculinity cut out. Had to go an get him 'neutered', just so you could look fashionable in front of your koo-koo animal-rights friends, I suppose. But it didn't do you any good, now did it? LOL...!! Believe me... you're getting exactly what you disserve. He's probably doing it on purpose just to get even with you for the act of savagery that you committed against his little person. Our boy has both his male parts because we don't care what other's think we should or should not do. We don't succumb to all the latest fads like jerks like you apparently do. Our boy is a fat and sassy, mean and healthy male tom. It is quite normal for them to spray every once in a while due to the continued perception of keeping a territory for the pack. But you get used to it after a while. It's normal, healthy and good. And it sure beats the alternative. Barbaric *******s... Self-centered to the end, each and every one of you who subscribes to this vile, barbaric and totally needless procedure. And you people preach outright against necessary things like declawing... Shame. Shame on all of you who do this vile thing to your trusting and loving pets. You're supposed to love them. Not hurt them. IBen Getiner |
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Rhonda wrote: Medea, is this the vet that neutered him? I'm wondering if they got it all, so to speak. Maybe have another vet look him over. You'll want to rule out that he does not have a urinary infection, too. Is he actually standing up and spraying or just peeing everywhere? If you rule out a medical problem and it is behavioral, many people have had good luck with Feliway dispensers to calm down their cats. Make sure you use a good odor neutralizer, like Nature's Miracle, to take care of the old spots so he doesn't smell it and try again. By the way, does he use the litter box at all? He might not like the litter. There's one called Cat Attract that is supposed to help kitties find the box. If it comes down to trying different things and nothing works, probably the last resort would be to talk to the vet about medication. There are some mood drugs for cats that help many use the box. Good luck, Rhonda Hi Rhonda, I have a bit of a problem with the same thing. When we took Ringo in a few week's ago, he was fine & I had no problem's with him spraying at all. He appear's to be Done(& I was informed that he is in fact fixed), but has recently started spraying up anything that he can find, so I have started confining him to the utility room rather than allowing him the whole run of the house. Whilst I realise that this is not a good long term answer, I also needed some advice regarding the same problem too. The only thing that is different to before, is that it started when we took Lucy(fur) in a few week's after him. Lucy is most deffinately spayed, because I took her when she was fixed. Would this indicate that it is behavioural? It's driving us potty(excuse the pun, not intended!), because he is the master of all ginger feline ring tail's and we love him dearly-But his recent habbit's are making life hard for both us and the rest of the moggies in the house as well. Also, how would I approach this issue with the vet?Do I wait for her to tell me what she think's, or do I tell her what I think the problem might be? I don't want to stand on her toe's, but I do want to get on top of the problem asap. Medea, you have my total empathy with this one...It really is awful isn't it? Keep me up to date with how you are doing if you wouldn't mind? I will try *anything* that I can do, because he is worth it..but boy does he whiff!!! Thanx S;o) |
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sheelagh wrote:
The only thing that is different to before, is that it started when we took Lucy(fur) in a few week's after him. Lucy is most deffinately spayed, because I took her when she was fixed. Would this indicate that it is behavioural? It's driving us potty(excuse the pun, not intended!), because he is the master of all ginger feline ring tail's and we love him dearly-But his recent habbit's are making life hard for both us and the rest of the moggies in the house as well. Also, how would I approach this issue with the vet?Do I wait for her to tell me what she think's, or do I tell her what I think the problem might be? I don't want to stand on her toe's, but I do want to get on top of the problem asap. Sheelagh, sometimes cats get sick right when something else is happening, like bringing in a new pet, so the cause gets confusing. I think it's best to rule out a medical problem before you treat it as behavioral. At the vet, just be honest and say what happened. I don't think a good vet would ever feel like you're standing on their toes if you ask questions. I usually say "He's been doing this, do you think it could be ...." When we brought in a new cat and he started peeing everywhere about 2 weeks after he was here. We took him into the vet and he had crystals and a bladder infection. The vet thinks he could have been holding his pee too long because he was in a new place and that made things worse. I asked her to check his neutering job because the previous owner had receipts that he was neutered, but his rear quarters didn't look like our neutered cats! He had a few extra parts. The vet looked him over and said he was neutered, and I trust her. If your kitty's okay medically, do you have some other intact cats there? Didn't you have some kittens? Having every cat in the household spayed and neutered is the first step to calming down all of the hormones and the need to mark the territory. Good luck to you, Rhonda |
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