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Hi, really hoping for some advice on what to do next with one of our little cats!

We got Monty around 3 years ago, when he was 6m old. He had just been neutered and we got on very well with him. 2 years ago we got another cat from the same parents, female called Margot, though she is a subsequent litter, and was around 8 weeks old at that time. She was spayed at around 5 months. When introduced there was a few days of wariness and hissing etc but soon settled with each other very well, playing, grooming each other, sleeping near to one another etc.

Then I got pregnant, and whether this is coincidence or not I'm not sure, but the younger female started weeing in the sink. Then in plastic tubs of washing. We treated her for stress related cystitis with zylkene. Then cystease as well. Introduced extra litter boxes, split the cats up at night because their fighting was getting worse.

We have since moved house (bigger territory for them) and things were fine for around 2 months, and then the weeing started again. It has gone from puddles of wee to vertical spraying aswell, and it is always the female. It is particularly worse when she comes into contact with Monty. He does harass her at times and we try to split them up but it's very difficult to monitor every second of the day! They are now being totally separated but this means Monty is confined to one room only, and Margot has the run of the hall stairs and landing and our bedroom.

Thing is, she is still peeing. I genuinely don't know what to try next. We are going to the vets tomorrow but I just despair. She's so incredibly sweet (they both are so dear to us) but I am worried we may have to rehome her somewhere without children or other cats. I am worried that when we go away to see family etc that we will get back to a house covered in wee!

Please advise, will this ever be resolved? Am I missing something really obvious?!

Heartbroken

Hi and welcome,

There’s lots of information on this page that may help:

https://www.catchat.org/index.php/cat-t ... ay-indoors

I do hope that you manage to sort it. Thankfully I’ve never had this issue with my own cats, although I did with one cat when I was fostering. It was a real pain, but we found that the weeing stopped once he was rehomed and could go out. Do your cats have access to outdoors?

My very first question will be... is there anyway you can give them outdoor access? Do you have a garden you can cat proof or would the area be safe enough for them to go out without being confined to garden only.

Then possibly on a more obvious note, when she wee's what do you do, how do you react? Either afterwards or if you catch her in the process of doing it.

What do you use to clean up where she's wee'd?


Hopefully between us we can come up with a solution, you obviously do love your two cats and it would be a shame to have to rehome. So fingers crossed