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I looked around for articles with a similar situation but as of yet i have not, so here is some background.
Late November, I was working outside and I heard a cat calling-meowing loudly. Then I saw this small, thin stray black intact male cat trotting all the way down our long court and just started circling my legs and acting like I was his long lost best friend. I petted him for a long time and just thought he was a real nice neighborhood cat and he would move on. I went back to yard work. A couple of hours later, I cleaned up and closed the garage door and discovered the cat laying on a patio chair we moved in there to store over winter. I gave the cat some food and water and he ate/drank like he's been starving. I kept our side door open so he could leave when he thought it was time. We thought that this didn't seem like a true outdoor cat, but it could be someone's pet. The cat had no interest in leaving and setup home in our garage.
we put contacted the Humane Society in our area and our lost and found facebook group. Nothing until we found out that this cat used to belong to someone who moved some time ago and didn't take the cat with them. We thought we could take this cat into our family. The cat had fleas and we treated him with OTC frontline, but that didn't work right away. We took him to our vet for vaccinations and additional flea treatment. Vet thought he is about two years old and seemed healthy.
We slowly introduced him our pets, three cats and one dog over several weeks, (few minutes to start and added additional time etc.) Things went well at first. We found that he peed our bed. Then on a rug in my daughter's room and then on a rug in our family room. We bought a few of the plug in Feliway at our vet's recommendation. We thought that was working and then i saw him pee in an Amazon shipping box that was full of the air-bag shipping stuffing. After cleaning up the urine, we thought we smelled other spots too but at first we thought we were smelling the original spots. We then went on a urine hunt and started smelling everything. Turns out our curtains were sprayed and carpet areas along the walls. Worst area was in our room, where we keep our dog's crate for sleeping. Then while cleaning up a patch, we walked up to my wife and just pee'd right in front of her.
We put the cat back in the garage. Maybe he's not going to be the right fit for our house since he's two, used to living outdoors and still intact. He could be a loner since he didn't have any litter box issues in the garage. Could hate our dog etc. Please keep in mind, we have five litter boxes in our two-story house, so it's not a case of too many cats and not enough boxes.
So here is real issue. He had only been in the garage one night and in the morning I found two, quarter size patches of what looked like thick, brown gunky honey and it smelled like super concentrated urine. There was no signs of it ever being liquid, no run-off etc. I cleaned it up and then I found another one. This one was much smaller and I took a photo of it, that i have attached here. This one was much smaller, dime size and the honey like in color and thickness.
Anyone knows what this could be? Normal for an angry male intact cat? Thoughts? He's still using his litter box, acting normal and visible signs of redness/irritation.
In the house the cat never yowled using the litter box, but I notice him peeing for short bursts and then go to another box. I didn't think of anything of it and just thought it had to do with him being an outdoor cat.
I am concerned about his health, but I'm also concerned about cost. We just paid over $1,500 for an ER trip for our kitten who almost died due to a horrible respiratory infection.
I looked around for articles with a similar situation but as of yet i have not, so here is some background.
Late November, I was working outside and I heard a cat calling-meowing loudly. Then I saw this small, thin stray black intact male cat trotting all the way down our long court and just started circling my legs and acting like I was his long lost best friend. I petted him for a long time and just thought he was a real nice neighborhood cat and he would move on. I went back to yard work. A couple of hours later, I cleaned up and closed the garage door and discovered the cat laying on a patio chair we moved in there to store over winter. I gave the cat some food and water and he ate/drank like he's been starving. I kept our side door open so he could leave when he thought it was time. We thought that this didn't seem like a true outdoor cat, but it could be someone's pet. The cat had no interest in leaving and setup home in our garage.
we put contacted the Humane Society in our area and our lost and found facebook group. Nothing until we found out that this cat used to belong to someone who moved some time ago and didn't take the cat with them. We thought we could take this cat into our family. The cat had fleas and we treated him with OTC frontline, but that didn't work right away. We took him to our vet for vaccinations and additional flea treatment. Vet thought he is about two years old and seemed healthy.
We slowly introduced him our pets, three cats and one dog over several weeks, (few minutes to start and added additional time etc.) Things went well at first. We found that he peed our bed. Then on a rug in my daughter's room and then on a rug in our family room. We bought a few of the plug in Feliway at our vet's recommendation. We thought that was working and then i saw him pee in an Amazon shipping box that was full of the air-bag shipping stuffing. After cleaning up the urine, we thought we smelled other spots too but at first we thought we were smelling the original spots. We then went on a urine hunt and started smelling everything. Turns out our curtains were sprayed and carpet areas along the walls. Worst area was in our room, where we keep our dog's crate for sleeping. Then while cleaning up a patch, we walked up to my wife and just pee'd right in front of her.
We put the cat back in the garage. Maybe he's not going to be the right fit for our house since he's two, used to living outdoors and still intact. He could be a loner since he didn't have any litter box issues in the garage. Could hate our dog etc. Please keep in mind, we have five litter boxes in our two-story house, so it's not a case of too many cats and not enough boxes.
So here is real issue. He had only been in the garage one night and in the morning I found two, quarter size patches of what looked like thick, brown gunky honey and it smelled like super concentrated urine. There was no signs of it ever being liquid, no run-off etc. I cleaned it up and then I found another one. This one was much smaller and I took a photo of it, that i have attached here. This one was much smaller, dime size and the honey like in color and thickness.
Anyone knows what this could be? Normal for an angry male intact cat? Thoughts? He's still using his litter box, acting normal and visible signs of redness/irritation.
In the house the cat never yowled using the litter box, but I notice him peeing for short bursts and then go to another box. I didn't think of anything of it and just thought it had to do with him being an outdoor cat.
I am concerned about his health, but I'm also concerned about cost. We just paid over $1,500 for an ER trip for our kitten who almost died due to a horrible respiratory infection.
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