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
> 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
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Noreen Cooper - 07 Oct 2003 11:17 GMT
: 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 - 07 Oct 2003 11:33 GMT
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
> : It's probably worth taking him to the vet to be checked over, and take a
> : urine sample, if you can!
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