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Hello,

We have a 6 year old male cat that wants to pee on everything. We think he is in competition with the other cats, who are mostly male. There are a lot of cats in our house, 6 to be specific, all male but one. What happens is that the older cat sprays to mark his territory because he cannot get along with the younger alpha-male. They are both in direct competition. Short of getting rid of the older cat, we don't know what else to do. They are starting to pee everywhere and it is getting pretty terrible. Everyday we clean up pee in a few spots. We have tried everything, from giving the older cat Buspar to using Nature's Miracle where they pee and trying to cover up the odors. We have also tried the feliway spray to no avail. The cat is just plain unhappy around the other cats and we think that he is the main culprit in the starting of the spraying.

Is there anything at all we could possibly do? It is really bad, I mean they pee on anything that is on the floor and there are days where I would probably feel little remorse for subjecting the cat to a cruel, painful, bloody death. (Don't worry, I really wont, it just seems appealing after you have cleaned up pee for the millionth time and your house starts to smell)

I really cannot seem to think of any other solution other than confining the cat to the basement (much to the dismay of my ferrets) or finding another home for him. He is a really sweet cat when he is not around other kitties, but in their presence he becomes really mean and won't even let you pet him.

So to recap, feliway does not work, cleaning the litterboxes often does not work, nature's miracle does not work, in fact, none of the solutions I've read so far work. Killing the cat would work though......

The cat has been to the vet and does not seem to have a urinary tract infection. He is just really unhappy I think.

Any ideas other than finding him a new home? I'd really hate to do this to him, but then again I really hate wiping up pee off the hardwood floors everyday.

Any suggestions would be more than welcome!

Thanks!

Mark

If Buspar has not worked then perhaps it is time to find the cat a good home where he can be the only cat. There is not a whole lot else you can do to stop the marking if the cat is feeling very insecure.

Is it at all possible to give him his own "space" where the other cats are not allowed to come into? That might be a workable solution.
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Thanks for replying.

It really may be too early to tell about the Buspar. I don't know what the effective time for it to reach an adequate level in the bloodstream for a cat would be. My girlfriend said it would take something like 2-3 weeks. It has been about 2 and a half so far with not a real noticable difference. If anything, the poor cat seems a bit angier these days.

We may have to confine him to the basement and I think that he would hate it. The ferrets probably wouldn't get too much freedom either, but at least he cannot claw them because he is declawed unfortunately.

Another idea was to confine him to a room with some food and a litter box and try to make him go in the box more to see if we could possibly retrain him, but I don't think his litter habits are really the problem, as I believe his actions are pretty much spraying.

It is sad that he is so unhappy and that our options are pretty limited. He wants all of our attention and any other cat that we pet he ends up hating, especially the other dominant male.

Thank you for replying though. I definately agree that we need to somehow work on his hapiness.

Mark

Give the buspar a while longer. It takes time for medications to really start kicking in. If that doesn't work I agree finding the cat a new home for just him would probably be the best thing.
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