Hi,

We have two cats (One Tonkinese called Quincy and a Moggy called Billy).
However, due to my Mum moving to an apartment, we've inherited my Dad's
moggy Charlie [My Dad died a year ago]. He's a fairly independent cat,
always done his own thing, but used to follow my Dad around and always sat
near him.

Before we brought him down to our house, we took him to a vet who told us to
keep him in for 6 weeks before letting him out. We introduced all 3
gradually, and that went fine -- they rub noses when they meet, and seem to
tolerate Charlie.

The main problem is that Charlie keeps urinating over the house. Whenever he
does, we shut him in the room he was kept in when he first arrived. Quincy
had started peeing in the house a few weeks before we got Charlie.

As we've not had him six weeks (And he's going to a vet's for an operation
in a few days) we've kept him inside and let him out of his room sometimes
for hours. However, recently he's begun hissing and howling when he smells
"fresh" air through the locked catflap. He also sits by the front door and
howls and hisses if we go near him (But still purrs). This evening, I let
him out onto the roof (He was howling like a banshee) and he wandered around
howling, has a pee, and then came back in and was fine.

He's a lovely cat -- really friendly, he follows us around the house, and if
we let him out at night (When he scratches and howls to be let out of his
room) he falls asleep on the windowsill and doesn't fight our other cats (Or
pee).

He has a clean litter tray to himself (Which he uses when he's in the room.)

THe other half won't let him go out when he wants, but I think we should --
we've had him about 4 weeks now. The howling behaviour & peeing is driving
us nuts, and I hate hearing him howl when he's shut in "his" room. I don't
understand how sometimes we can let him out for most of the day and he's
fine, but other times he goes mad. I assume the peeing is territoritial? Or
just frustration? The vet has checked him out and apart from a growth on his
lip he's in good health. He 12 years old.

Anyone got any ideas of what we can do? I think we need to start letting him
out.

Martin