Within the past year I have taken in 3 stray cats. One was an emaciated kitten, the other hung around on the patio all hours of the day, and the final one would follow me whenever she saw me.
I had two cats to begin with. Now for a grand total of 5 cats. Since I will be moving out soon I planned on taking my original 2 and the now one year old kitten considering he thinks I am his mother and leave the other two to stay with my mum. She had wanted cats after I had left and since these little ones needed homes I brought them inside to be with us.
The only problem is the last one I mentioned, which is actually the first stray I had taken in has behaviors that I can not find a fix for. She hates the others. Hissing, swatting to stay away. Thus the others now hate her as well. An occasional scratch will appear on someone's face during a scwabble but this has happened with the original two siblings when they have a spat. So nothing major.
Another of her problems is she often chooses to use beds, chairs, furniture in general to urinate on. I have gotten rid of my bed and am now sleeping on one of those 3 inch memory foams. She has tried once to pee on it before I quickly moved her off before too much was done. I usually place it back into the box to avoid this. She has urinated on my mother's bed before as well. The thing is I had taught her to use the litter box and she had for a couple of months but then stopped. She stopped months back, it was not during an introduction of the newer two. Side note: we have three litter boxes.
After she has now just urinated on my chair. Something she has not done before. My mother wants to find her a new home. I am not fond at all of this idea, but I was wondering is she perhaps unable to adjust with the others? Would she be happier being a single cat? I'm frightened that if she did end up with a new family and her problems persist, she'll end up on the streets. Does anyone have any advise on how to fix her problems?
(She seemed to be an adult when we took her in. The kitten was only 2lbs, the other had been hanging around our patio since he was a baby.)
I had two cats to begin with. Now for a grand total of 5 cats. Since I will be moving out soon I planned on taking my original 2 and the now one year old kitten considering he thinks I am his mother and leave the other two to stay with my mum. She had wanted cats after I had left and since these little ones needed homes I brought them inside to be with us.
The only problem is the last one I mentioned, which is actually the first stray I had taken in has behaviors that I can not find a fix for. She hates the others. Hissing, swatting to stay away. Thus the others now hate her as well. An occasional scratch will appear on someone's face during a scwabble but this has happened with the original two siblings when they have a spat. So nothing major.
Another of her problems is she often chooses to use beds, chairs, furniture in general to urinate on. I have gotten rid of my bed and am now sleeping on one of those 3 inch memory foams. She has tried once to pee on it before I quickly moved her off before too much was done. I usually place it back into the box to avoid this. She has urinated on my mother's bed before as well. The thing is I had taught her to use the litter box and she had for a couple of months but then stopped. She stopped months back, it was not during an introduction of the newer two. Side note: we have three litter boxes.
After she has now just urinated on my chair. Something she has not done before. My mother wants to find her a new home. I am not fond at all of this idea, but I was wondering is she perhaps unable to adjust with the others? Would she be happier being a single cat? I'm frightened that if she did end up with a new family and her problems persist, she'll end up on the streets. Does anyone have any advise on how to fix her problems?
(She seemed to be an adult when we took her in. The kitten was only 2lbs, the other had been hanging around our patio since he was a baby.)