Thanks. I guarantee nothing's changed in my mom's room at all. But it could be an issue between the cats. 3 of the 4 would normally sleep all day on my mom's bed, including Kara. Maybe she was trying to mark the bed as hers or keep one of the other cats off?
The two other cats that share the bed are BooBear & Gretchen. Gretchen and Kara love each other. I constantly find them curled up together, grooming each other & sleeping with their arms around each other. Maybe Gretchen ticked Kara off a few times?
Kara gets along okay with Boo, grooms her occasionally. Boo has diabetes and IBD. Her IBD causes her to sometimes not make it to the litter box when she has to go #2. Maybe Kara doesn't like the lack of cleanliness? But that's been a problem for over a year; strange that Kara would suddenly be upset by it.
Boo was recently having some issues with her diabetes, so she's been in and out of the vet's office every 2 weeks for about 2 months now. Maybe some connection there?
Thanks for the ideas. We sell the Feliway diffusers. Maybe I'll try one. I never even gave them much thought.

Oh, and I will attest to the rug backing thing too. When we adopted Gretchen, she had been a stray wandering around our backyard. We brought her in, and she started peeing on our bathroom throw rugs, which have a rubber backing. I asked the vet and she said that rubber or latex backing tends to give off a faint smell similar to ammonia. Some cats are more sensitive to the scent than others. (And my poor kitty was just trying to figure out where she was supposed to go potty now, since she's inside all the time!) We got rid of those rugs and got new ones that had no backing at all on them. Guess what? Gretchen immediately stopped peeing on them! (Of course, Kara then took up the habit because they were new and she didn't like them. Totally different problem. We now have bare bathroom floors.) But for Gretchen, it solved the issue.

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