# Pissing on a cat

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pissing-on-a-cat/223348>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 8, 2004, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pissing-on-a-cat/223348 "2004-01-08T02:36:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Silver\_Serpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@Silver\_Serpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Serpentine)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pissing-on-a-cat/223348/21 "2004-01-09T08:26:08Z")

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I’ve been told that peeing on a male cat who sprays your house will make him stop spraying because you’ve effectivly marked him as YOUR territory, so, ummm . . . he figures that if he’s your territory, everything else is, too.

Known people who’ve done it. It apparently works. Dunno.

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