Hello,
We are at our wit's end here. We adopted a British shorthair cat 3 years ago, no idea how old he is. We were told he was fully litterbox trained, but it turns out he isn't and he has destroyed two houses now with his peeing wherever he pleases. He was previously diagnosed with some kidney issues by one vet via bloodtest, but, after we moved, another tested him and told us that us putting him on a renal diet must have healed his kidneys because they are fine now (which is strange as we never had him on a renal diet as he is too fussy to eat low protein food.) We discovered that he has a long history of inappropriate urination when our current vet told us it was on his records. His current health situation is not so good - he was due to be put to sleep as he has bad arthritis in his back legs and, while Loxicom worked to remove his pain, it also made him sick. in a weird twist of fate, last Saturday the vet advised putting him to sleep (which was booked in for Monday) and gave him an injection of Loxicom to make his last couple of days pain-free. After that injection and a subsequent oral dose I gave him, he never vomited and has been on it since, pain free and holding it down.
I mention all of this to say that I know he is not urinating due to pain or an undiagnosed infection. I have tried everything to stop him peeing on our carpets. I have put down scents, but he doesn't even sniff before he pees, so he walks over to where he has been going, pees and walks off. I have put foil down, he stands on the foil and pees on the carpet to the side of it. Same thing if I block the area off. He has even walked past his litter tray and peed on one of his own beds! From what I can tell, he just stops wherever and pees before heading to his food or water. He has two massive litter trays in a quiet part of the house, near enough to him that there are no excuses for not using them. We are very close to putting him to sleep now despite him being fine on the medication as we cannot handle this stress anymore; as I said, it has been 3 years of this! Please, if anyone has any advice or past experience of this behaviour, let me know.
Thanks.
We are at our wit's end here. We adopted a British shorthair cat 3 years ago, no idea how old he is. We were told he was fully litterbox trained, but it turns out he isn't and he has destroyed two houses now with his peeing wherever he pleases. He was previously diagnosed with some kidney issues by one vet via bloodtest, but, after we moved, another tested him and told us that us putting him on a renal diet must have healed his kidneys because they are fine now (which is strange as we never had him on a renal diet as he is too fussy to eat low protein food.) We discovered that he has a long history of inappropriate urination when our current vet told us it was on his records. His current health situation is not so good - he was due to be put to sleep as he has bad arthritis in his back legs and, while Loxicom worked to remove his pain, it also made him sick. in a weird twist of fate, last Saturday the vet advised putting him to sleep (which was booked in for Monday) and gave him an injection of Loxicom to make his last couple of days pain-free. After that injection and a subsequent oral dose I gave him, he never vomited and has been on it since, pain free and holding it down.
I mention all of this to say that I know he is not urinating due to pain or an undiagnosed infection. I have tried everything to stop him peeing on our carpets. I have put down scents, but he doesn't even sniff before he pees, so he walks over to where he has been going, pees and walks off. I have put foil down, he stands on the foil and pees on the carpet to the side of it. Same thing if I block the area off. He has even walked past his litter tray and peed on one of his own beds! From what I can tell, he just stops wherever and pees before heading to his food or water. He has two massive litter trays in a quiet part of the house, near enough to him that there are no excuses for not using them. We are very close to putting him to sleep now despite him being fine on the medication as we cannot handle this stress anymore; as I said, it has been 3 years of this! Please, if anyone has any advice or past experience of this behaviour, let me know.
Thanks.