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Short version: How do I get my 3 year old cat to stop peeing everywhere? She is stressed about new kittens and we have tried isolating her from the kittens, giving her CBD oil, and amitriptyline HCl, she is wearing a cat hormone collar and the same hormone outlets in every room she pees in (which is nearly all of them). What else can we try? Also, she has been checked by our vet and has a clean bill of health.
I know this is a common problem, but my female cat is spraying everywhere. I know why, but we can't change it.
Over the summer, a female, stray, pregnant cat found our family. She is too feral for her to be an inside kitty, but once the kitties were of age, we got her fixed. The kittens are inside/outside kittens. So we went from just two inside only cats to adding 5 inside/outside cats and two outside, mostly feral cats. (9 total).
The inside cat that is giving us the trouble was adopted from a shelter when she was a few months old. She was raised around two older cats, two older dogs, and a one-year-old cat who only spends holidays and summers home (she goes to college with me during most of the year). In the last few years, the older animals passed, but she wasn't attached to any of them. None of our animals really liked any of our other animals.
Anyway, Penny immediately hated the cats and kittens and she started peeing everywhere. At one point, I counted 19 pee spots in one room. It has been about 6 months since the new kittens have come into our family and we won't get rid of them.
She has gotten better and now no longer attacks the kittens on sight. She can be around them, watches them play, can sleep with them near. She has her own litter box and has areas she can roam where the kittens aren't allowed to go. As I mentioned before, she is on medication, we have used cat hormones, and it seemed like it was working for a while, but she is back to peeing at multiple places per day.
I sometimes take her to my place and she doesn't pee at all there when it is just me, her and my cat (who is one year older than Penny). Penny also seems to to be a Norwegian or Siberian cat if that makes a difference. Also, my cat and Penny are the only two females (not counting the feral mom who never comes in). The rest of the cats are boys who have all been fixed.
Is there anything else we can try?????? Please help! She has peed on some favorite books.
I know this is a common problem, but my female cat is spraying everywhere. I know why, but we can't change it.
Over the summer, a female, stray, pregnant cat found our family. She is too feral for her to be an inside kitty, but once the kitties were of age, we got her fixed. The kittens are inside/outside kittens. So we went from just two inside only cats to adding 5 inside/outside cats and two outside, mostly feral cats. (9 total).
The inside cat that is giving us the trouble was adopted from a shelter when she was a few months old. She was raised around two older cats, two older dogs, and a one-year-old cat who only spends holidays and summers home (she goes to college with me during most of the year). In the last few years, the older animals passed, but she wasn't attached to any of them. None of our animals really liked any of our other animals.
Anyway, Penny immediately hated the cats and kittens and she started peeing everywhere. At one point, I counted 19 pee spots in one room. It has been about 6 months since the new kittens have come into our family and we won't get rid of them.
She has gotten better and now no longer attacks the kittens on sight. She can be around them, watches them play, can sleep with them near. She has her own litter box and has areas she can roam where the kittens aren't allowed to go. As I mentioned before, she is on medication, we have used cat hormones, and it seemed like it was working for a while, but she is back to peeing at multiple places per day.
I sometimes take her to my place and she doesn't pee at all there when it is just me, her and my cat (who is one year older than Penny). Penny also seems to to be a Norwegian or Siberian cat if that makes a difference. Also, my cat and Penny are the only two females (not counting the feral mom who never comes in). The rest of the cats are boys who have all been fixed.
Is there anything else we can try?????? Please help! She has peed on some favorite books.