Cat weeing everywhere :(

Kimberley

Vax has a point. You have three children and a baby due soon and hygiene and your family has to be the top priority. I can't see it being the tom outside because your cat is weeing too much. Normally when toms spray to mark their territory they don't wee as much as you describe. I think the reason is more likely to be that he has become incontinent or has a urine infection. Your best advice would be from your Vet who will check him out. My daughter who lives with me is due her baby next february and although i love my bengals to bits they come second to my children and i couldn't have a cat weeing in a room that my kids and soon to be grandchild uses. I understand your cat is 11 but please get him checked out at the vets for hygiene or health reasons and for his sake too because he cannot be happy as things are.

Bumpmakesfour

Kimberley wrote: »

I understand your cat is 11 but please get him checked out at the vets for hygiene or health reasons and for his sake too because he cannot be happy as things are.

Hi,thankyou.I posted in my first post that the vet had told me he was marking so I have already had him checked out.I had him looked at after the third weeing episode.I said I'll book him in again tomorrow...just don't want anyone to think I'm an uncaring owner!
You say your bengals come second which I totally understand.So what would you do in my position?

Bumpmakesfour

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

Yup, it could well be the tom outside that's upsetting him - he may be worried it'll get in the house and be making sure it knows who it belongs to!

Another quick check at the vet won't do any harm.

Re the litter trays & getting another - how many do you have (you should really have at least 1 for every cat & some say 1 extra as well). Some cats happily share (esp if only a couple and brought up together) but many don't like to so this could be worth a try.

We have one tray in the daytime and two at night.Wow never knew the one each plus one rule!Where on earth would we fit five litter trays?:eek:

Kimberley

Bumpmakesfour wrote: »

Hi,thankyou.I posted in my first post that the vet had told me he was marking so I have already had him checked out.I had him looked at after the third weeing episode.I said I'll book him in again tomorrow...just don't want anyone to think I'm an uncaring owner!
You say your bengals come second which I totally understand.So what would you do in my position?

I would keep the cat in a room of it's own until the marking stopped and if it is because of the tom then i'd try to scare the tom away but i know that with a new baby due you have to get this sorted for health reasons.

Fridaycat

One thing to remember when cleaning cat wee is to not use anything such as bleach and disinfectants that have ammonia in their formulae. These products night mask the smell from a human perspective, but from the cat's it actually reinforces the smell and makes them think it is ok for them to continue to pee there! A previous poster mentioned using non biological washing powder. This is really important as it is a product that will thoroughly clean the area, and remove the ammonia traces, thereby removing that scent to the cat.

I hope you get it sorted soon, OP, you are obviously a very caring mother and pet owner

QuackQuackOops

vax2002 wrote: »

Who owns this house he is peeing all over ?

The cat isnt peeing, he marking.
Secondly, it urine. All animals do it. It wont hurt you or anyone else.
Its not nice and it smells as it dries but it wont do you any harm.

You over-react and seem to be one of those people who balk at a spec of dust.

It does clean up. It does wash off and who's ever house it is is none of your business.

Buttonmoons

I thought it was biological washing powder you had to use as it "ate" the enzymes in the pee?

Oddly enough one of my cats (dont know which....I have 2) had peed in the litter box room, right on the utility floor, oh god it was stinking! I was really annoyed as the litter boxes WERE both clean, but I think I have to get a bigger sized 2nd litter box as they both like to wee in that one, but hang out of it as they are quite big, so it could of been a misaim, OR....having a protest that I swapped from gravel litter to the wooden pellets.

But cat pee DOES stink and it is rank! I used bio powder on the areas and then washed the floor with CIF and they aint done it since so.....

I had to pull up the carpet in the utlity room when my female cat was on heat and weed on the floor, my god it was tear inducing the smell.....she also had a liking to pooping in the tumble dryer........thankfully on the ex's stuff *phew*

Fridaycat

Buttonmoons wrote: »

I thought it was biological washing powder you had to use as it "ate" the enzymes in the pee?

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Yes, of course it is! I am not sure why I put the word "non" in there! I think because I had bought some that day from Tesco and got a bit of a bargain, but that is a subject for a different board perhaps :rotfl:. But to reiterate, don't use disinfectants or bleach as, although that would be a lot of people's first instincts, they just highlight the ammonia smell to the cat and makes them want to wee there even more :eek: