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Hello, my wife and I have this frustrating problem with our 5 year old cat Lemmy. He started urinating on the bed in the spare bedroom about a six weeks ago.
I did take him to the vets for a checkup and the vet could not find any medical reason for it and he said that he was almost sure it was behavioural.
We used an enzyme cleaner and felliway spray and that seemed to stop it. Then this morning he urinated on our bed in the main bedroom. This caused a lot of upset for myself and my wife.
Background
He's the youngest of our two cats, the elder Suki is an 11 year old female. We've had both since kittens and both have been fine. However a lot has happened this year (in addition to Covid!). We moved home in March and he found it really stressful (he hid and slept a lot for the first few weeks) and there are two neighbourhood cats he just doesnt get on with. My wife developed anxiety and depression and had a problem that the cats would keep waking her at night, so we took to sleeping with the bedroom door closed. Then this summer the vet said he was overweight and he's been placed on a diet.
So he's shut away from us all night, he's on a diet and I dont think he's ever settled properly into this house . He doesnt go outside much, although he'd happying run around the garden when we were out there in summer.
A couple of months ago, before this started, we wondered if he was upset because he rarely went out (although he didnt go out that much in the old house), so be purchased a felliway difusser and plugged it into the landing .
I'm 99% sure this is stress and happyness issue but I really dont know how to make it better. I'm considering getting one of those cat calming collars from Amazon. Is that the right approach
I did take him to the vets for a checkup and the vet could not find any medical reason for it and he said that he was almost sure it was behavioural.
We used an enzyme cleaner and felliway spray and that seemed to stop it. Then this morning he urinated on our bed in the main bedroom. This caused a lot of upset for myself and my wife.
Background
He's the youngest of our two cats, the elder Suki is an 11 year old female. We've had both since kittens and both have been fine. However a lot has happened this year (in addition to Covid!). We moved home in March and he found it really stressful (he hid and slept a lot for the first few weeks) and there are two neighbourhood cats he just doesnt get on with. My wife developed anxiety and depression and had a problem that the cats would keep waking her at night, so we took to sleeping with the bedroom door closed. Then this summer the vet said he was overweight and he's been placed on a diet.
So he's shut away from us all night, he's on a diet and I dont think he's ever settled properly into this house . He doesnt go outside much, although he'd happying run around the garden when we were out there in summer.
A couple of months ago, before this started, we wondered if he was upset because he rarely went out (although he didnt go out that much in the old house), so be purchased a felliway difusser and plugged it into the landing .
I'm 99% sure this is stress and happyness issue but I really dont know how to make it better. I'm considering getting one of those cat calming collars from Amazon. Is that the right approach