I've heard that, yes, this is true and spaying will help.

I think one diffuser covers 600 sq.ft. (I believe it says on the package).

Depends on the set up I think. I have two in one very LARGE room (since my
apt. is essentially a living room, dining room and kitchen and then a
bedroom is separate.) I'm sure that spaying will make a difference.

Karen

    Yes.  :)

    Yes, and probably.  Females do it both to mark territory and
to advertise their in heat status to males.  The vast majority of
spraying females stop with spaying.

    No, it's almost definitely her.

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Good luck with "the biskit"  (I'm an old Ally McBeal fan so her name
reminds me of that.:))  I think vet med has improved and while they don't
want to do things like spaying while a little under the weather, heck, if
they could operate on Shadow nearly two years ago multiple times in a
short while when he was clearly ill, they certainly can monitor how it is
going.

She'll be ok Sherry.   :)

Not sure if this will answer you question, exactly, but is closely related I
think:

My first cat was definitely 'marking' for a couple of months or so before I
had her spayed.  This was in the early 70's, she was my first cat, & she was
already 1 year old - I didn't know then that she really should've been
spayed several months earlier.  I also didn't realize that the marking was
marking!  It was small amounts of urine each time - & appeared to be quite
concentrated.  The behavior never returned after her spay op.

Cathy

--
"Staccato signals of constant information..."
("The Boy in the Bubble")  Paul Simon

Some females do. We have had several girls over the years, and only
one ever did. It was territorial for her, but she mellowed after being
spayed and quit doing it.

Here's an odd question about spraying. Anybody have a male who aims
and does the tail wiggle like he's spraying, but nothing ever comes
out? My sister's cat has been doing this for 11 years. I watch him
aim, wiggle, and walk away. I grab a kleenex and wipe the surface, and
it is dry. Not a single drop. I am greatful, but I have never seen
such a thing.

Meghan & the Zoo Crew  
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Yes, female cats sometimes spray.  I think there's a good possibility that
it will end after Biskit is spayed.  I don't know if this is related to
being in heat, but it is related to being intact.

The instructions on the box for one of my Feliway diffusers says that
coverage is 500-650 sq. ft.  However, I doubt that you would really need
coverage for *all* square footage in your home.  My house is a little less
than 2300 sq. ft., and I used 3 Feliway diffusers when I adopted Duffy and
went through the introduction process with Holly.  I placed the 3 diffusers
in the cats' "most used" areas.  In my case, this meant that I placed one in
the living room, one in Duffy's room, and one in the hallway (in an outlet
close to Duffy's room).  When I left for a short vacation last summer and
had a pet sitter, I again used 3 diffusers "just in case."  This time, I did
not place one in "Duffy's room" because that had reverted to being a guest
bedroom.  I placed that one in the computer room that also houses the cat
tree because both cats spend a lot of time there.  There was one other
occasion when the two seemed a little nervous, so I got the diffusers out
again for a few days.  This has worked very well for me.

HTH and *good luck*!
MaryL