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Hello,
we have 8 cats. Lancelot, the problem cat, is our second one.
He's been spraying a little since Christmas, maybe like once a week, at the same time our close neighbor got a kitten. The kitten is indoor/outdoor cat and is often in our garden.
The neigbor went to America for a month and we're currently taking care of him. That's when the problems begun. After 3 days of the kitten being here, Lancelot started spraying everywhere, sometimes up to 5 times a day. There are some places he prefers-the door that leads to the outside, the nightstand underneath the window and my favorite-a specific corner of the kitchen counter. But he also sprays other places.
The kitten is, well, a kitten. He very much disturbs Lancelot and Lancelot very obviously hates him. The kitten is also quite dominant. The thing is, he never had any problem with other cats, even with kittens.
As I said, he's our second cat ever and he's accepted all of the 6 cats we adopted after him. When it comes to his social standing I would say he's quite low, because, for whatever reason, he never fights back. Mind you, he's a huge cat. One of the cats bullying Lancelot stopped, because he's a smart boi and we taught him not to. Pidin, however, is an autistic little shit who doesn't understand social interactions whatsoever and stopping him from bullying anyone is an impossible task unless we want to lose both of our arms, so he still bullies Lancelot sometimes. But other than that, there never was a problem, the problems started only after Christmas. Pidin was the third cat btw, so I doubt he's the problem.
The worst problem is that Lancelot started leaving our garden. They're all indoor cats, but we have a tiny garden with high walls, and so we let them go there, usually under surveillance. It is, however, possible to leave the garden if they want to, but we taught them not to, and all 8 of them respect it and have no desire to leave.
Probably a week ago, 4 days after the kitten started to temporarily live here, he started to leave. The kitten is still being let out and can roam around the neighborhood if he wants to, so maybe Lancelot saw he can leave and tried it himself? But I don't think that's the case, because the kitten visited our garden and left pretty much since Christmas, and Lancelot never cared, never tried to imitate him.
I can tell Lancelot is very anxious. He gets easily angry, annoyed. He wasn't like that before. There's only a week left before the kitten goes back home, but we're pretty desperate when it comes to the spraying. He sprayed on the microwave, coffee maker and other very hard to clean places.
The leaving also terrifies me. I think he's leaving because he's feeling anxious, possibly because of the kitten? I don't know. There are roads all around the house, we've lived here for 3 years and 2 neighbors cats we knew got run over. Plus there are dogs and Lancelot is not afraid of them-we have a doggo, that's why.
We've been to the vet a month back with his pee and he's healthy.
At this point mom's been thinking he's just too unhappy to live here and we should re home him, but he's 5 years old already and very prone to stress.
What do you think?
we have 8 cats. Lancelot, the problem cat, is our second one.
He's been spraying a little since Christmas, maybe like once a week, at the same time our close neighbor got a kitten. The kitten is indoor/outdoor cat and is often in our garden.
The neigbor went to America for a month and we're currently taking care of him. That's when the problems begun. After 3 days of the kitten being here, Lancelot started spraying everywhere, sometimes up to 5 times a day. There are some places he prefers-the door that leads to the outside, the nightstand underneath the window and my favorite-a specific corner of the kitchen counter. But he also sprays other places.
The kitten is, well, a kitten. He very much disturbs Lancelot and Lancelot very obviously hates him. The kitten is also quite dominant. The thing is, he never had any problem with other cats, even with kittens.
As I said, he's our second cat ever and he's accepted all of the 6 cats we adopted after him. When it comes to his social standing I would say he's quite low, because, for whatever reason, he never fights back. Mind you, he's a huge cat. One of the cats bullying Lancelot stopped, because he's a smart boi and we taught him not to. Pidin, however, is an autistic little shit who doesn't understand social interactions whatsoever and stopping him from bullying anyone is an impossible task unless we want to lose both of our arms, so he still bullies Lancelot sometimes. But other than that, there never was a problem, the problems started only after Christmas. Pidin was the third cat btw, so I doubt he's the problem.
The worst problem is that Lancelot started leaving our garden. They're all indoor cats, but we have a tiny garden with high walls, and so we let them go there, usually under surveillance. It is, however, possible to leave the garden if they want to, but we taught them not to, and all 8 of them respect it and have no desire to leave.
Probably a week ago, 4 days after the kitten started to temporarily live here, he started to leave. The kitten is still being let out and can roam around the neighborhood if he wants to, so maybe Lancelot saw he can leave and tried it himself? But I don't think that's the case, because the kitten visited our garden and left pretty much since Christmas, and Lancelot never cared, never tried to imitate him.
I can tell Lancelot is very anxious. He gets easily angry, annoyed. He wasn't like that before. There's only a week left before the kitten goes back home, but we're pretty desperate when it comes to the spraying. He sprayed on the microwave, coffee maker and other very hard to clean places.
The leaving also terrifies me. I think he's leaving because he's feeling anxious, possibly because of the kitten? I don't know. There are roads all around the house, we've lived here for 3 years and 2 neighbors cats we knew got run over. Plus there are dogs and Lancelot is not afraid of them-we have a doggo, that's why.
We've been to the vet a month back with his pee and he's healthy.
At this point mom's been thinking he's just too unhappy to live here and we should re home him, but he's 5 years old already and very prone to stress.
What do you think?
And try to find something to ease the stress (he's a big fan of catnip, so it might just work)
) Whilst he was doing his stomach, he neutered him .
