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okay I need some advice from all of you fellow brilliant cat lovers!! Very recently I came to the realization that I am dealing with quite a few strays taking up at least part time residence in my detached garage. I'm a renter and I am just coming up on a year in my apartment. My landlord had mentioned before about all the cats always going to the bathroom in the one part of the garage which I don't have access to, but he had said that they were the people's who live below me. I am in a two family house.
Anyway I contacted all local no-kill shelters and was told they are all filled to maximum capacity so the one woman from one shelter was kind enough to work with me to do TRN and even pay the fee that I would be responsible for, lend me the trap, show me how to use it, etc. So far I was able to catch and release one adult male which is the one who I have mainly seen in my yard since the day I moved here and thought he belonged to my neighbor all along.
I only found out he was not my neighbors when last week a cat was in heat outside of my door for hours and finally I said something to the neighbors like you should really keep your cat inside while she is in heat if you are not going to get her fixed (my landlord has been battling with them for over a year about their cats and not taking proper care of them so I don't even bother anymore) and that's when I was told it was not their cat. Anyway when I caught the cat to bring it to the clinic I assumed I had the one who was in heat until I took one look at it and knew it was a male.
That is when I knew there was at least one more cat. So I knew I was going to be trying to trap more cats. Whatever this is all really unnecessary information really. I have yet to be able to catch the female, I have seen at least one more male in my yard that does not belong to my neighbors and im sure is a stray.
Okay now to my issue, Im sorry I ramble, I have two cats of my own if anyone remembers when I posted back when my female Mamma was sick and about Baby my male who is neurotic
They are both fine now by the way, except for my new "issue" although im not sure it is as dramatic as I am making it out to be.
So I trapped the male and I set him free and all was well until I noticed that Baby my male was acting very strange. Being very vocal. Whining, pacing, actually meowing which he never did, being downright annoying at times because I could not figure out what his problem was. But tonight I realized he kept trying to get out the door as I left and came back in which he never ever does either. Then I noticed him keep going down the stairs which is also odd behavior, so finally I followed him down the stairs and it hit me like a ton of bricks.
CAT PEE!!!! The bottom of my stairs stinks like it... my whole stairs are carpet along with at the bottom but its only at the right side and under the door kind of.. I just had a new door put on and im waiting for the contractor to come back and put the molding along the one side so right now its just stuffed with insulation and it stinks there at the bottom and when I opened the door it stinks outside along the bottom too.
So I guess my questions are first how do I really get rid of it?? And why is this happening?? Is it the stray male? Or is it my cat? My male is not even 2 years old yet and was fixed less than 6 months old and has never gone outside of the box. I have to assume this is spraying behavior which I know can be territorial, but my male did not even do this when I brought the female into the house. So how can I figure out who it is and how can I stop them from doing it???? Sorry so long!!
Anyway I contacted all local no-kill shelters and was told they are all filled to maximum capacity so the one woman from one shelter was kind enough to work with me to do TRN and even pay the fee that I would be responsible for, lend me the trap, show me how to use it, etc. So far I was able to catch and release one adult male which is the one who I have mainly seen in my yard since the day I moved here and thought he belonged to my neighbor all along.
I only found out he was not my neighbors when last week a cat was in heat outside of my door for hours and finally I said something to the neighbors like you should really keep your cat inside while she is in heat if you are not going to get her fixed (my landlord has been battling with them for over a year about their cats and not taking proper care of them so I don't even bother anymore) and that's when I was told it was not their cat. Anyway when I caught the cat to bring it to the clinic I assumed I had the one who was in heat until I took one look at it and knew it was a male.
That is when I knew there was at least one more cat. So I knew I was going to be trying to trap more cats. Whatever this is all really unnecessary information really. I have yet to be able to catch the female, I have seen at least one more male in my yard that does not belong to my neighbors and im sure is a stray.
Okay now to my issue, Im sorry I ramble, I have two cats of my own if anyone remembers when I posted back when my female Mamma was sick and about Baby my male who is neurotic
So I trapped the male and I set him free and all was well until I noticed that Baby my male was acting very strange. Being very vocal. Whining, pacing, actually meowing which he never did, being downright annoying at times because I could not figure out what his problem was. But tonight I realized he kept trying to get out the door as I left and came back in which he never ever does either. Then I noticed him keep going down the stairs which is also odd behavior, so finally I followed him down the stairs and it hit me like a ton of bricks.
CAT PEE!!!! The bottom of my stairs stinks like it... my whole stairs are carpet along with at the bottom but its only at the right side and under the door kind of.. I just had a new door put on and im waiting for the contractor to come back and put the molding along the one side so right now its just stuffed with insulation and it stinks there at the bottom and when I opened the door it stinks outside along the bottom too.
So I guess my questions are first how do I really get rid of it?? And why is this happening?? Is it the stray male? Or is it my cat? My male is not even 2 years old yet and was fixed less than 6 months old and has never gone outside of the box. I have to assume this is spraying behavior which I know can be territorial, but my male did not even do this when I brought the female into the house. So how can I figure out who it is and how can I stop them from doing it???? Sorry so long!!