I have a problem. My oldest cat, 13 years old named Matty, is peeing/pooping everywhere possibly out of distress. We have 3 other cats, 2 from me 1 from my fiance Lauren. Matty just doesn't like all the other cats, nor does she like my fiance. She has bitten her, hissed and swiped alot. Lauren pretty much stays away from her. Well recently she was diagnosed with diabetes and we have to administer insulin shots which I do happily. Lately though she's peeing on my mother's bed and such. I've even caught her peeing right outside our main litterbox. I cleaned that box and she seemed to use it, but then she started peeing outside. This morning we found a nice pile of pooh in our living room, though we can't determine if it was Matty who did it or not, but then I found out last night Matty peed on my mother's bed again. I've had people tell me to put her to sleep and I just can't bring myself to think of that. I raised that little girl from a few week old kitten and every time I think about that it makes me upset. On the other hand I really don't know what to do. We are going to make an appointment to see our vet, awesome guy very nice very knowledgeable, I want to ask him if it's necessary to put her to sleep when she's not necessarily in pain. Granted she's stressed out but euthanasia is such a permanent thing I really don't want to unless it's absolutely necessary and I really don't know if it's at that point yet. She seems healthy enough outside of the diabetes and she purrs when I pet her alone so I can't see the reasoning to go through with that. I just don't know what to do, it's stressing all of us out I want the best for Matty but I also don't want to put her under.
On top of all this stress me and my fiance have a wedding to plan, my mother is moving out and my fiance is taking her room and we are moving stuff around. This kind of complicates things even further because the room that she is always in, my mothers room under her bed or on her dresser etc..., is going to become my fiance's room. She always has her cat with her at night and if I take Matty into my room she just sits at the door wanting to go out. We plan to have Matty in my room, my fiance's cat in hers, and the 2 other cats free roaming the rest of the house which is perfect for it's size etc... I have 3 litterboxes right now and my fiance has a 4th we are going to be grabbing from her apartment once we are done with the entire move. I plan to have at least one litterbox in my room if not 2. Hell I can even buy yet another so there is always a box and even make it so it's Matty's only box if she feels threatened by using the other cats' boxes. The thing though is, she's used the other main litterbox that all the cats tend to use but doesn't come into my room so never uses the 2 in my room. I did at one point have all 3 litterboxes in one location to change the litter/dump it etc... and she used one of the ones I use in my room. This entire thing is very confusing for me. Oh and another thing is Matty is still drinking alot of water and ends up making big giant mounts of clumped urine in the main box. We probably will have to up her dosage of Insulin when I see the vet.
On top of all this stress me and my fiance have a wedding to plan, my mother is moving out and my fiance is taking her room and we are moving stuff around. This kind of complicates things even further because the room that she is always in, my mothers room under her bed or on her dresser etc..., is going to become my fiance's room. She always has her cat with her at night and if I take Matty into my room she just sits at the door wanting to go out. We plan to have Matty in my room, my fiance's cat in hers, and the 2 other cats free roaming the rest of the house which is perfect for it's size etc... I have 3 litterboxes right now and my fiance has a 4th we are going to be grabbing from her apartment once we are done with the entire move. I plan to have at least one litterbox in my room if not 2. Hell I can even buy yet another so there is always a box and even make it so it's Matty's only box if she feels threatened by using the other cats' boxes. The thing though is, she's used the other main litterbox that all the cats tend to use but doesn't come into my room so never uses the 2 in my room. I did at one point have all 3 litterboxes in one location to change the litter/dump it etc... and she used one of the ones I use in my room. This entire thing is very confusing for me. Oh and another thing is Matty is still drinking alot of water and ends up making big giant mounts of clumped urine in the main box. We probably will have to up her dosage of Insulin when I see the vet.
. 13 years is a long time for a cat to bond with a person and I like the fact that I raised her from this itty bitty little cute kitty into this grand ol wonder of a cat. And while she may be senior by cat standards she's got so much life left in her. And just having her around brightens my mood. The other cats tend to be a bit too roudy but that isn't bad either just different 
. Anyway I'll continue to monitor her but she's been using the litterbox in my room so that's definatly a plus.
