We have always had cats inside and none have every sprayed. (2 male/2
female) Well the 2 females had to be put to sleep for renal failure&
diabetes within the last year and around that time someone dumped a preganat
female outside our house. Of course we put her on our screened in deck and
she had her 4 kittens. Gypsy (the momma) was very skinny and run down when
we found her and about a week before giving birth, she would follow me
everywhere and scatch on the door when I went in....she just wanted me to
hold her. She wasn't much more than a kitten,I am sure it was her first
litter.They came out fine Aug.10, 2004, 2 boys, 2 girls, so we now have 4
boys and 3 females. We kept them all as we got too attached. All have been
spayed & neutered. Now for the unusual: mama cat HATES the two boys she gave
birth to. They can't even walk by her and she hisses, growls, hits them on
the head and runs. The two girls she'll put up with them laying by her, but
nothing else. Weaning has LONG since been done. Do they remember they are
family or do cats forget even while living together.

The last girl kitten (Baby) the runt, has always peed funny. She'll start
out squatting in the box then raise up as she pees till it's going overe the
box side. I tried to gently push her down but then she'd run. So as not to
have her fear the box I gott a cover & that's kept it in the box.
Gyspy(mama) would spray in our basement when we first let them in and they
all stayed down there when it got cold outside. It's a full finished
basement very nice and just redone actually before the kittens came into our
lives. We banished mama to the deck on the warmest days or our room when
cold--to keep her from spraying down there & to help wean.

THEN.....everything was good and fine and no problems for about a year. Now
just the last couple weeks the Baby that has never peed right, but always
found the box is running in off the deck straight to our front door and
backing up and spraying. I've caught her at it three times.  Now just this
week, Gypsy (mama) has spraying our linen closet door right in the middle of
our hallway. She's just so blatent about it, it ticks me off. Funny, I
always heard it was the males that sprayed. They all seem to get along fine
each other except mama and her too boys. But they cower down to her, they
don't fight her, so she shouldn't be stressed. Are spayed female cats sick
if they spray. I mean, is it a symtom of something else.

I must say Mama cat (Gypsy) has been getting out on us for a couple weeks &
we can't get her back in for a couple hours. May it have something to do
with that. I'm so so sorry this is so long, but I wanted to get the details
that someone might have experienced before. My next step is the vet, but
we've just gotten through another upper respiratory infection in 5 our of
the 6 cats and a operatoin for our dog. When it rains it poors. But if most
people here say get to the vet, we're off.  I appreciate you guys alot.

Oh, they don't act sick. Eat, drink and play as normal.