My cat just peed on the dining room table!!!!!!!!!

citygirl_

I'm sure you've heard me go on and on about my dumb cat and his peeing (this is NOT a new thing - we've had him 5 years and he's always done it, got him checked for illness, etc, but nothing is wrong!) but oh my gosh, new, disgusting low.  He peed in Jude's crib the other day and I was able to keep my cool.  He's continually peed on our bed the past few weeks and somehow I haven't snapped.  The dining room table, though??????  My husband is going to FLIP OUT.  I don't know what to do with this cat!!!!  He's become an absolute terror since Jude was born.  Help!!!!  Ahhhhh!

nosoup4u

I have no suggestions that will not get me immediately flamed on this board. All I can say is that peeing around the house would just not be feasible for me as a cat owner (I hope my cat is reading this right now so she knows, ha ha ha).

That sucks dude, hope you can figure something out - can you sequester him into one area of your house?

citygirl_

We've tried the basement (our house is mini) but he just scratches at the door all day long, the other cat gets in a tizzy and then he pees down there.  I am just about done.  Really, we are fools for putting up with a cat ruining our things for 5 years.  Whenever I say it out loud that he does this, I feel sick!  This is our 3rd mattress in 5 years because of him and it's absolutely ruined.  We have to get a 4th now!

My husband is really going to flip out... eeeeeek.

gatogrrl

Oh no!  That's pretty gross.  My old cat (RIP) used to pee on this one chair over and over, until we covered the seat with aluminum foil.  That stopped him.  But I guess you can't aluminum foil your entire house.

I'm racking my brain for anything helpful to say.  Seems like it's behavioral; could it use some more exercise or distractions, like one of those carpeted tree houses (ugly, I know!)?

 

franciscaz

I'm always one for doing everything possible to keep an animal but sometimes you do everything right and it doesn't work out.  I would carefully consider rehoming the cat or making it an outside one.  This really sucks but it is just unsanitary to keep going on like this.

citygirl_

I'm laughing at the thought of a shiny silver house....

Someone just told me about some thing you plug in that emits some scent that's supposed to deter them from peeing in certain areas.  Guess I'll need about 10 of them, ha!  I guess it's worth a shot.  Sigh.  Can't get any worse!

Dobie_Mama

citygirl_:

I'm laughing at the thought of a shiny silver house....

Someone just told me about some thing you plug in that emits some scent that's supposed to deter them from peeing in certain areas.  Guess I'll need about 10 of them, ha!  I guess it's worth a shot.  Sigh.  Can't get any worse!

Feliway?  Definitely give it a try.  I've heard it works wonders.

lanie26

I'd find the cat a new home.

It wouldn't be welcome in my home if it peed on everything. To me replacing mattresses is just completely out of hand. Time to get fluffy to move on. 

byrne15

lanie26:

I'd find the cat a new home.

It wouldn't be welcome in my home if it peed on everything. To me replacing mattresses is just completely out of hand. Time to get fluffy to move on. 

i am an animal lover, but i have to agree.  we had to "re-home" one of our very beautiful purebred italian mastiffs because of some pretty severe issues.  it was sad then, but it was really better for her and US!

fIowerchild

city, what are you going to do with this cat???

citygirl_

fIowerchild:

city, what are you going to do with this cat???

Send him to you to live in your beautiful yard???  eh?

Stacyc625

Cats are so strange. my cats have BOTH totally changed since i got pregnant. NO IDEA WHY. they will NOT tolerate each other- and they have lived together for five years no problems.

sigh. good luck with that. Have you tried the phermone sprays? they didn't do much for my cats. but worth a shot.

Stacyc625

yeah- i just reread your responses. its Feliway. it also comes in a spray form. honestly our vet sugested, spraying it on a cloth and rubbing it on the hair on his nose around face... so he smells it constantly (wont hurt him)- worth a shot.

LoriFalce

Sorry, I loved my cats back when I had two and my allergies were still mild enough to be controlled by Benadryl. I put up with my beautiful settee becoming a hair-covered catbed. I was okay with the scratching. I lived with the constant gifts of dead snakes and lizards. (Floridian cats don't catch mice.)

But escalating, ever-more-disgusting urination? Sorry. Bye, kitty.

lanie26

While i"m certain pets and furbabies would insist that the mattresses are the problem and insist you consult a pet psychic for a full evaluation of kitty's previous 8 lives, sometimes a problem is just a problem.

I'd take it to the vet, and ask some serious questions and then try and find it a new home, or put it down. I'd hate to give someone else the problem.

 

Hey maybe bretnshayna wants a cat. She liked cat urine!

Mc_Newlywed

Ew. Ew. Ew.?

Time for kitty to go.

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LoriFalce

I am just thinking how on the tri boards or 0-6, this would have been a huge "OMG, people who would even think about giving up their precious puddy tat should be arrested! Would you give your kid away if they peed on the table???!!!!"

But now, with more time, more perspective, and apparently, more pee, people are like, "Yeah, you can only deal with that so long before you throw in the pee-soaked towel."

And no, I wouldn't give away my son if he peed on the dining room table.

But I'd think about it.

LoveEeyore

Feliway worked very well for us.  We used the plug-ins, and though it was a PITA, made sure to spray the spray throughout the house 2-3 times a day.  I gradually decreased 1 spraying as he went a week without peeing. When I found urine, the offender was thrown in his cat carrier with paper towels I used to clean up the pee.  He stayed in the crate for an hour.  Then I tossed his butt in the litter box.  If I left the house, and he had peed that morning, he stayed in the carrier.  If I left the house and he hadn't peed that day, he got free roam of the bathroom.  Once he went a few weeks without peeing, he got more freedom.  Good luck.  Oh and in the meanwhile, I'd keep the bedroom doors closed.  Hopefully this helps and you don't have to get rid of him!

KRT

It may be time for Kitty Prozac...just a thought (SERIOUSLY)

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lanie26:

I'd find the cat a new home.

It wouldn't be welcome in my home if it peed on everything. To me replacing mattresses is just completely out of hand. Time to get fluffy to move on. 

We have 3 cats and I love them.  However, I'm with Lanie on this one.  Enough is enough. 

Also, I know you guys want to sell eventually.  You don't want to be stuck not able to sell your house because it reeks of kitty urine. 

7/04Bride

I am of the mindset that there's GOT to be a fix to a problem like that (one that doesn't involve having to find a new home for the cat).  Have you talked to an animal trainer?  There are trainers out there who are very knowledgeable about helping with kid/pet relationships.  You should probably keep doors closed the limit your cat's areas.  If you do decide to find a new home for the cat, please don't bring it to a shelter and try to find a new owner yourself.  Being locked in a crate in your house would be better than that.

crzygirl

Take the cat to the pound.   Sorry to sound mean but I could not tolerate the peeing.

kirbabe

I never mentioned this on here, because I didn't want to deal with people flaming me, but now I don't care.  We had to get rid of our cat too, she was a difficult cat before the baby, but after the baby was pure hel!.  When we came home from the hospital, 5 minutes after we walked through the door, she "voiced" her displeasure at DS being there by peeing right in front of me!  She kept peeing everywhere for months and months and I would just cry and cry as I cleaned up yet another puddle of cat pee.  I've never met such a vindictive cat.  I don't care about what other people say about cats not retaliating or whatever, they never met this cat (she was also the neediest cat I've ever met)!  If she would get in trouble for doing something, she would walk over to our leather couches, look you dead in the eye, and start clawing the leather.  It got to the point that I was worried for my son, not to mention he was just becoming mobile and we wouldn't be able to keep him out of the cat urine anymore.

When my son was a newborn, I mentioned my concerns to my friend and she blurted out, "I'm worried too!  I think she's the cat that would lay on a baby's face and smother them!!"  Apparently she had been thinking this for awhile.

SweetMonkey

we tried the Feliway and it did not work for us.

We use to tarp the furniture in our home (they were good about not peeing on beds) but DS had surgery at 4wks old and the day after I broght him home from the hospital the cat peed in the chair I used to BF him. I had gotten up at 3am to feed and did not retarp the chair due to having sleeping baby in arm and 2-3 hrs later when I went to feed again and I almost sat in pee, spotted the fresh warm pool of pee (it had not soked in yet) That was it for me. I had delt w/ the issues for years, but I was not going to have my baby endure it. I was so afraid they would start peeing on his stuff (we did not have the crib yet)

I rehomed them (it was a pair of sisters) and it was the best thing I did. I do at times miss them, but for me.. and this is only me I feel like I did what was best for my family. The side benefit was not having big blue tarps all over the house... being able to sit down at will and not running around to make sure everything was tarpped before we left for work. and yes, they had been to th evets several times over the yrs to see if there was a medical problem, we tried the Feliway, it did not work, and we lived in an apartment, they could not be "outdoor" kitties.

good luck!

do what is best for your family and don't give to worries about what anyone else thinks!

Brit1017

I had to rehome a cat I had that peed everywhere- it was completely a behavioral issue and she did it if she didn't feel she was getting enough attention. The last straw was when she peed ON ME! I had just gotten home and sat down in a chair and she walked over and peed all over my leg, the chair, and the rug. She was gone after that.

Di&Roddy

That cat would be history!

citygirl_

Thanks for the advice and sharing your stories, everyone!  We're considering asking my husband's work to take him in (they LOVE cats and about 5 live there) or asking my friend's mom to take him to her farm.  I don't have the time, energy, or money to deal with behaviorists, trying new things, etc.  I love him but I feel like we're really done living our lives to accomodate this darn cat.