My dang male cat!

xoxCait · April 2012

So I went into my laundry room and found the clothes wet.. I asked DH to smell and sure enough its cat pee. My 8 year old male cat is now peeing on the clothes. He's never done this before!! His litter box is fine.. nothing has moved... I just dont understand!

Anybody have this before.. or know of anything?

Kissty · April 2012

jealousy

Bluebird2318 · April 2012

Is it possible that he could be sick? Other than that, I do kinda believe that pets can tell when your situation has changed (like a new baby on the way) too. My cat is ALWAYS trying to sleep on my belly now, and she's never tried to do it before. Typically she'll curl up between me and DH or wherever is comfortable, but I swear she b-lines right for my belly these days. Maybe your tom knows that something is up and he's just reacting a bit badly to it?

MichelleL1118 · April 2012

Illness, or the stress of the upcoming changes. Animals can definitely sense that big changes are coming, and can likely smell the hormonal changes you're experiencing as well.

mikeandcristina · April 2012

Unless he has a bladder infection, it's most likely a behavioral change because he can sense that you're pregnant. Not really sure what you can do to keep him from doing it - in my experience, once a cat starts spraying, they don't normally stop!

danieliza1127 · April 2012

Like the others said, it could be stress if you guys are changing a lot of things around the house in preparation for the baby, or he could have a bladder infection or something. When our male cat was a kitten, he would pee on the carpet for no particular reason and he peed on a brand new love seat that I got from Target. We found that Feliway spray worked great and once I would spray it on stuff, he would never bother it. You can get it at any pet store, it's a natural pheromone spray that eases anxiety and calms them.

MrsAngel2008 · April 2012

Get him checked by the vet to rule out a urinary tract infection. He could also have developed crystals, which can cause pain and thus cause them to avoid the box.

If you're able to rule out a health issue, then I'd say keep the stuff off the floor in the room where he peed. Hopefully it was a one-time behavior aberration. If you find he's doing it regularly, there are a lot of things to try, but I wouldn't stress over all that just yet.

Serendipity0812 · April 2012

I had an older female cat that would do this whenever she got stressed, and later because of pain from colon cancer. Males are a bit more prone to do it. Pregnant women's scent changes the moment they become pregnant, and my guess would be he's just reacting to that, especially since he sprayed your clothes (the item in the house that smells most like you-besides you yourself, and I don't think he'd dare!!!). Try to keep your clothes and anything else that might smell like you off the floor until you deliver and are done nursing. Try getting a tall hamper with a lid--if he gets into that, bungee the lid shut. Also ask DH to step up his affection toward the kitty.

HTH

lupineaura · April 2012

Every once in a great while my cat likes to pee in dirty laundry, too. I guess there are worse places!

We've reduced this by giving him too litter boxes. Many cats like to pee in one box and poop in another, and we found out he is one of them. If there is poop in the box he doesn't want to pee in there.

We also got a laundry hamper with a lid

Good luck!

alli84 · April 2012

Our cat only did this when she had a bladder infection. Maybe bring him to the vet to just make sure there's nothing going on. One of the worst and deadliest issues for a cat is with their kidneys and bladder, so we always say it's better safe than sorry. We bought a cat fountain off etsy that our cats drink from and it keeps them hydrated enough that they haven't had any bladder issues since we got it.

Other issues beyond bladder could be stress and I know there are various items, including a plug-in that will give off a calming scent for cats.

Good luck!

camillaandcarson · April 2012

I am sorry. I would take him to the vet for a urine sample and culture. Males cats are prone to getting infections from stress. You don't want it to become a habit so the quicker the better. Also during that time keep all clothes picked up. Make sure he has access to a lot of water all the time, that helps keep urinary infections down. Feed him wet food if he doesn't drink a lot or maybe encourage drinking with a cat water fountain.

ballstar · April 2012

One of our cats (we have two) does this when the litter box isn't as clean as she would like it to be.

KittyMarie219 · April 2012

*Lurking*

Male cats usually spray to mark their territory or let to females know that they are ready to mate. That usually doesn't happen, though, unless the cat has not yet been neutered.
They will also sometimes spray if they are mad at you or if they are unhappy if a change in their environment. Cats do not like changes -- even little ones like a new brand of litter or cat food -- and spraying is their way of expressing their unhappiness.
If your cat is neutered and still spraying, one thing to do would be to buy a water squirt bottle like you see at a hairdressers and squirt them with water whenever you catch them in the act. Do not yell at them, or hit them, or rub their noses in it, though. That will only make them frightened and more stressed, and therefore more prone to spray again.

Another idea would be to invest in clicker training, which has been proven to be the most effective method of training a cat. Train your cat not to spray and reward him when he doesn't. If this is something you'd like to consider more, here is a link from about.com that will tell you more about it--

https://cats.about.com/od/behaviortraining/a/how_to_clicker_train_cats.htm

There also lots of books and kits on the subject available through Amazon and Barnes&Noble.
Hope this helps!

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