A stray cat came to us last spring. After determining that he was in fact a stray and didn't belong to anyone we started feeding him. He was really skittish at first but slowly over time let me get near him and eventually DH and the kids. He was strictly an outside cat. Well, we live in Colorado and where we live it gets very cold in the winter so I asked DH about letting him in at night for sure when it started to get cold out. He said sure if he will come. About a month ago he came in for the first time and has now gotten very comfortable coming in and being around us all.
Here is my problem. We have discovered that he is urinating on our dirty laundry and he is also urinating around the rabbit's cage. I can put up with having to teach him to stay off the kitchen counters etc., but how do I teach him not to urinate in places other then the litter box. He uses the litter box some of the time and uses it to poop in but other times he just has to do it elsewhere. Is there anything I can do or does he have to stay outside again?
We have a indoor cat that would urinate on laundry and the couch. We now keep all dirty laundry off the floor and clean laundry immediatly gets put away. To save the couch we got a spray from Walmart called Stay off and that has worked great. We spray the cushions once every 2-3 weeks. There is also stuff you can buy at the pet store to put in the litter box and encourage them to use it. You may also want to try using a different cat litter if the one you have is scented. sometimes changing the type of litter will make a big difference.
Well what I have found out with male cats is that they like to "mark" their territory by scenting on things that have a smell to them. The laundry would have to be kept picked up and the rabbit might be a bigger challenge. The only thing I can think of to suggest is, and I don't normally suggest this, is getting him fixed. That will stop him from doing that. We had a stray that would spray my back door and my front porch door once a week. The smell was horrible!!
With him being a stray at first he may have been doing this alot longer than you may be aware of.
Good Luck :)
Quoting wendyl006:
Well what I have found out with male cats is that they like to "mark" their territory by scenting on things that have a smell to them. The laundry would have to be kept picked up and the rabbit might be a bigger challenge. The only thing I can think of to suggest is, and I don't normally suggest this, is getting him fixed. That will stop him from doing that. We had a stray that would spray my back door and my front porch door once a week. The smell was horrible!!
With him being a stray at first he may have been doing this alot longer than you may be aware of.
Good Luck :)
unfortunalty having them fixed doesnt always stop the spraying. Out of 5 male cats that we had fixed, 3 of them continued to spray. Maybe we just had too many males togather.
Quoting Ferne:
Quoting wendyl006:
Well what I have found out with male cats is that they like to "mark" their territory by scenting on things that have a smell to them. The laundry would have to be kept picked up and the rabbit might be a bigger challenge. The only thing I can think of to suggest is, and I don't normally suggest this, is getting him fixed. That will stop him from doing that. We had a stray that would spray my back door and my front porch door once a week. The smell was horrible!!
With him being a stray at first he may have been doing this alot longer than you may be aware of.
Good Luck :)
unfortunalty having them fixed doesnt always stop the spraying. Out of 5 male cats that we had fixed, 3 of them continued to spray. Maybe we just had too many males togather.
He is fixed. When we decided to have him as ours we didn't want to have anyone come say we were responsible for a littler of kittens so we had him fixed in like June. We do have another male cat so maybe that is it.
Dedicated wife to Joe, loving stay-at-home mommy to Landon and Epi, and caretaker to Strawberry(horse), Buttercup(pony), Snowball(rabbit), Rio and Hunter(dogs), & Nike, Mr. Mooch, and Tinkerbell(cats).
Thanks ladies for the advice!
Dedicated wife to Joe, loving stay-at-home mommy to Landon and Epi, and caretaker to Strawberry(horse), Buttercup(pony), Snowball(rabbit), Rio and Hunter(dogs), & Nike, Mr. Mooch, and Tinkerbell(cats).
I had a cat that did this and she was fixed. The bathroom was her spot. If there was a towel or clothes on the floor for even 2 minutes she would spray it. The smell was terrible. We tried everything to get her to stop!!! We found her another home about 6 houses up the street that had no other cats. She's been there about 4 months now. I've spoken to them several times since and they say she has not done it even once. Problem solved.
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- countrygirlkat
on Dec. 26, 2009 at 4:36 PM