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kittyromeo
at Wed Sep 13 21:41:40 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by kittyromeo ]
You might want to try Feliway to help Mr. Kitty and Sara deal with their stress levels while the feline hiearchry settles down. Its synthenic happy feline phermones available in a spray or a wall diffuser. It can also help with marking but is better used in conjunction with other methods.
Recently one of my furballs was ill, her recovery set the whole house in turmoil. As a result, Annie cat who has been an indoor kitty since 2000 started pooping outside of the box for the first time ever because Stink, (the recovering kitty) was reasserting her place in the house.
I've used a wall diffuser, fed Annie treats in the affected area and stepped up the once a week dump and scrub litterbox cleaning to every 4-5 days. It took a week for there to be a noticeable difference from the feliway and we've had one set back - this morning she left me a gift. But its also one week since I bleached the boxes. Cats are subtle creatures at times. Even little things can upset or please them.
And on a final note - if little kitty is about 6 months old - you want to get him snipped asap. Hormones are going to tell him soon to spray. After that you can remove the hormones but spraying is often a learned habit by then. Call around your local area shelters - someone might have experience in ferals and be able to help you get little kitty to the vet.
Learned the last tip from a odd twist of fate - when I got my last cell phone # it turned out I was one digit reversed from a woman who does just this. This woman seemingly does everything but climb trees to help ferals judging from the misdialed messages.
Hope you can get this resolved before Hubby decides he has had enough.
Purrs,
Elizabeth
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RE: Feral cat and Litter box - kittyromeo, Wed Sep 13 21:41:40 2006