Readers of my journal know I'm introducing a new cat into my house. This morning I had a spraying incident. I need to address this post haste or I can't go forward. I'll just quote the paragraph I wrote in the journal, which is still in progress for today:
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Any advice on how to find out which cat did it? How to stop it from happening again (other than the cleaning ritual -- I've got that down.) And this is a biggie: if it's Rocket, how likely is he to beginning actual spraying in the rest of the house?Beginning yesterday, Iâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]ve been occasionally leaving the bedroom door open for short intervals to allow the three to circulate in and out as they please. This morning when I go in to see if anythingâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]s going on, I find an oval-shaped wet spot on the side of the box spring. Rocket is sitting on the bed. Rocket routinely engages in “fake†spraying, so I suspect heâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]s the culprit. Unless I nip this in the bud, he might do it all over the house. So the plans to let little gray out are postponed. This is a new problem I didnâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t face during my last intro, so Iâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]m going to open a thread in the behavior section to get some input. Iâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]m not about to do DNA testing on the urine spot, so I need to find out which cat did it and how to prevent it from happening again. The first thing is to get out Natureâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]s Miracle and clean the spot. I have an old fitted bottom sheet covering the box spring, so, oh goody, I get to take everything off, including a heavy, heavy extra thick mattress to get at it.
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