I can tell you one thing- we have one cat (and it’s one too damned many). She is a spite whizzer. Company over? Whiz. Overnight guest? Whiz. Highly inaccesible place? Whiz.
Bullshit. When this cat goes to kitty heaven, I swear with all my heart it will be the last cat I get, ever. My patience is totally tapped out with her. I’d rather visit other peoples kitties, and since my sister is a crazy cat lady, that will be no problem.
(The cat is my husband’s, and he treats her like a little princess. Any deviation from her getting what she wants results in whiz someplace awful. And YES, she’s fixed.)
I agree with those who say get Tornado to a vet. A cat peeing all over the place when it was formerly content with its litter box may have a urinary tract infection. Male cats are prone to UTI’s, especially if they’re fed on supermarket-brand cat food- the popular brands have a lot of fillers and artificial coloring and crap in them that aren’t good for kittys. If you go to a major pet supply store, such as PetSmart, someone there can recommend a good, high quality brand of kitty food, and it’s not that much more expensive than the brands you get at Smith’s.
Ewww. Ewww. Ewww.
I’ve got a Pisser, too.
Two-and-a-half year old male, fixed when we got him at 5 months. He also had an undescended testicle, which they fixed when he was fixed.
About four months ago he started peeing on stuff. On stuff on the floor. On clothes left on a bed. Once he peed on a placemat on the dining room table.
As dragonblink said, I can’t leave anything on the floor, or he will pee on it. He pees on the bathroom rug if we leave the bathroom door open. He peed on the little rug I had in front of the kitchen sink so many times, I had to throw it away.
I have two other cats, four litterboxes (which are kept very clean…thoroughly scooped every day, and dumped and refilled every other week).
I’m at my wit’s end with him. Neither of the other two have ever done this. Would a UTI make him pee like that? Gotta go call the vet right now…
Tornado, get thee to a vet.
I had three cats that did the exact same thing. They were outside kitties, then they were allowed to come and go inside as they pleased.
All three cats started going inside the house, anywhere they felt like it. I didn’t think to take them to the vet, and I found out too late.
My vet said that there is one cat food in particular that is detrimental to all nine of their lives. It contains a lot of ash (eew!) and is not nutritionally balanced for cats. It causes urinary tract infections, which lead to kidney infections, crystalized urine, and death. I don’t have a cite for this, but I have not fed my cats anything but Meow Mix ever since, and they are just fine and dandy.
Our old cat, who passed on in February 2000, used sometimes to piss in the corner of the living room next to the front door. We’ve treated that spot over and over again and the smell’s still there – guess it’s never going away.
First, get the cat checked out at the vet. Your snookums could have a urinary tract blockage – common in male cats. Some kind of crystals form in their teeny little peeties; I think it’s from eating too much dry cat food. Or poor quality dry cat food.
Second, after you get the black light (my pet store rents them for $5 per day), you can actually find the cat pee spots. The room has to be pretty much pitch black darkness, but all, shall we say, mammal fluids, show up under the light.
Get some Nature’s Miracle – also at the pet store – and saturate the pee stain completely, making sure you soak all the way through the padding under the carpet. It has an enzyme in it that neutralizes the pee smell and gets rid of it completely and forever. Part of your kitty’s problem is the pee smell is still deep in the carpet. Once he’s marked the spot, he’ll keep going back to it. The Nature’s Miracle is just that… a cat pee miracle.
We also feed only Iams brand food, the original formula, in the orange bag. You can buy it in the grocery stores around here, though, in the Giant and Safeway chains. It’s a little more expensive (about a dollar nore) than PetSmart, but if I need it and I’m there, then I just buy it there.
One more though on my “Pisser”…he was never one for covering up his poops and pees in the litterbox. He does what he has to do and jumps out. One of the other cats (one male and one female) would go in after him and cover it up.
He is stil pooping in the box, just not peeing all the time.
Bear in mind- I’ve used Natures Miracle successfully, but you have to SATURATE the area. When you saturate it, sometimes it smell like fresh pee while it does it’s thing, so don’t freak out and think that the cat peed again.
We’ve used that Nature’s Miracle stuff before, and it works pretty well on stuff like carpets. But when the problem is that the cat has peed into a packed box of god-knows-what and you don’t even know which box it is… aaaahhhh!!!
Opaland Kinsey, not to alarm you, but that was the first symptom that got me to take my Missy to the vet. She started peeing on my exhalted kitchen counters! Blasphemy!
She was diagnosed with Chronic Renal Failure. So I would hasten to take kitty(s) to the vet’s for a check. It couldn’t hurt. I second the Nature’s Miracle. Best thing since sliced bread.
If it’s behavioral and not medical than I definitely recommend the Feliway spray. One of my fellows was incredibly jealous of a new arrival and began spraying all over. (He had been neutered many years before.) Feliway was the only thing that worked with him. It’s supposed to mimic the scent that cats deposit from their cheek glands when they rub up against things. It supposedly makes them feel calmer and more secure. It worked for me anyway.
An update: I took Heifer to the vet yesterday, and he does have a UTI. Poor little* guy.
Now I need to get some baby food meat to hide his pills in!
** The word “little” is being used loosely here. The beast weighs 19 pounds! The name Heifer fits so perfectly…but he was named when he was a little 2-pound fluff ball, and my daughters named him for his black and white cow-spots! :D*
I just read this whole thread, and I don’t think I’ve laughed so hard in quite a while. Just phueckin hilarious!!!
My cats have never gone whiz in the house. I guess I’m just lucky. they used to be outdoor, but now they’re indoor only, and both are fixed. 8 year-old female (7 lbs), and three year-old male, classic orange barrel-chested tabby (15 lbs).
When he gets to the stage of whizzing uncontrollably I’ll take the advice given here, and whisk him off to the vet. In fact, I’ll do that as a preventive measure, BEFORE, it gets to that point.
But, he’s the prince of cats, he may behave as he pleases. Seriously, I had long thought Tybalt would be a really good and creative thing to name a cat. It’s cool to see someone who had the same idea.
