Hello...
I read the sticky thread about cat pee problems, and it was very helpful, but it still left a couple of my questions unanswered.
Here's my background story. I am currently living with my parents, one of whom is deathly allergic to cats, and the other who detests them. I moved from one state to another to live here, and bringing them with me was not an option. They are now in the care of my boyfriend's mother, who did not want to keep them in the first place, but was doing it as a favor to her son. My boyfriend came with me and lived at my parents' house for a month and just left today. A week after we arrived at my parents' house, his mother called to tell us that the cats, or just one of them, she doesn't know which, urinated in the house, on my bf's clothing and a chair he sat in to be exact. After reading the sticky thread, I can understand that they were stressed by us both seemingly abandoning them and that urinating there was "soothing" to them.
Two weeks passed after this first incident without any further problems. Then his mother calls and tells him the cat/s now has pooped in the dining room. I don't have even a possible explanation for this.
Then another week and a half passed with no incident. Now, the day that my bf is going back home (albeit only for a couple of days as he is leaving for school), she calls to tell him that the cat/s have peed in the living room, on the dining room table, and on the kitchen counter.
Okay...what is this all about? I know there are some highly knowledgeable cat people on here and I so hope you can try to explain this to me. I have a couple of questions.
1. Why do the cats only seem to "supposedly" do this when she is not home, and use the litterbox perfectly when she IS home with no problems? Is this typical? The fact that this is true kind of makes me want to rule out any UTI problems.
2. Why would the cats pee on the kitchen counter or the dining room table? I had always been under the impression that cats usually chose to urinate on cloth covered surfaces. Why on earth would a cat choose to jump three feet onto a counter and pee on it?
3. Would a female cat in heat cause a NEUTERED male cat to start urinating in strange places? Our female cat is not spayed, but our male cat is neutered. However, I can't see how this would be an explanation, as the female has been in heat before around the male and he has never done anything like this.
I say "supposedly" in #1 because, frankly, I don't trust this woman farther than I can throw her. She is manipulative, unstable, and a liar. As I said, she never wanted to take care of the cats in the first place. There is something about this story that is just not adding up to me, and I find it a little too convenient that the cats decide to mess in the house again the DAY my bf goes back home, and for all the reasons above. Hmmm...could that be because she wants to be rid of the cats and didn't want to do it herself? I never wanted to leave our cats with her in the first place and tried my darndest to find another avenue, but I was unable to. An aunt 15 minutes from where I live was going to take them, but HER daughter moved back in with her a couple weeks ago with her dog that doesn't like cats
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Does anyone have any suggestions?
I read the sticky thread about cat pee problems, and it was very helpful, but it still left a couple of my questions unanswered.
Here's my background story. I am currently living with my parents, one of whom is deathly allergic to cats, and the other who detests them. I moved from one state to another to live here, and bringing them with me was not an option. They are now in the care of my boyfriend's mother, who did not want to keep them in the first place, but was doing it as a favor to her son. My boyfriend came with me and lived at my parents' house for a month and just left today. A week after we arrived at my parents' house, his mother called to tell us that the cats, or just one of them, she doesn't know which, urinated in the house, on my bf's clothing and a chair he sat in to be exact. After reading the sticky thread, I can understand that they were stressed by us both seemingly abandoning them and that urinating there was "soothing" to them.
Two weeks passed after this first incident without any further problems. Then his mother calls and tells him the cat/s now has pooped in the dining room. I don't have even a possible explanation for this.
Then another week and a half passed with no incident. Now, the day that my bf is going back home (albeit only for a couple of days as he is leaving for school), she calls to tell him that the cat/s have peed in the living room, on the dining room table, and on the kitchen counter.
Okay...what is this all about? I know there are some highly knowledgeable cat people on here and I so hope you can try to explain this to me. I have a couple of questions.
1. Why do the cats only seem to "supposedly" do this when she is not home, and use the litterbox perfectly when she IS home with no problems? Is this typical? The fact that this is true kind of makes me want to rule out any UTI problems.
2. Why would the cats pee on the kitchen counter or the dining room table? I had always been under the impression that cats usually chose to urinate on cloth covered surfaces. Why on earth would a cat choose to jump three feet onto a counter and pee on it?
3. Would a female cat in heat cause a NEUTERED male cat to start urinating in strange places? Our female cat is not spayed, but our male cat is neutered. However, I can't see how this would be an explanation, as the female has been in heat before around the male and he has never done anything like this.
I say "supposedly" in #1 because, frankly, I don't trust this woman farther than I can throw her. She is manipulative, unstable, and a liar. As I said, she never wanted to take care of the cats in the first place. There is something about this story that is just not adding up to me, and I find it a little too convenient that the cats decide to mess in the house again the DAY my bf goes back home, and for all the reasons above. Hmmm...could that be because she wants to be rid of the cats and didn't want to do it herself? I never wanted to leave our cats with her in the first place and tried my darndest to find another avenue, but I was unable to. An aunt 15 minutes from where I live was going to take them, but HER daughter moved back in with her a couple weeks ago with her dog that doesn't like cats
Does anyone have any suggestions?