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| 463.1 | some suggestions | PUZZLE::CORDESJA | | Mon Feb 02 1987 13:07 | 25 |
| Is your kitty spayed? Whole females will often urinate
indiscriminately when they are in heat. Or she may be mad at you
for leaving her alone, or she may be jealous of the attention her
sister gets when being medicated or a number of other things.
Here are some suggestions for you. Make sure you clean the spot
up immediately after she uses it. Do not use an amonnia product
to do this. It you don't have any of the organic cleaners that
are made for this purpose, use a solution of vinegar and water to
soak the spot and then blot it up with paper towels.
Try putting a food and water dish on top of the spot, she won't
want to pee on her food.
Try to give her extra attention. Remember that even when she
misbehaves she is getting your attention. Even if it is negative
attention.
If she continues to urinate in places other than her box, confine
her to one room with a spotlessly clean litter box and her food
and water. Then as she starts using the box with more regularity
you can expand the area that she is allowed to go into.
Hope this helps.
Jo
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| 463.2 | Infection? | 24766::DUDLEY | | Mon Feb 02 1987 14:19 | 10 |
| When a cat breaks litterbox habit and continues to do so, the
first order of business should be to rule out any physical
cause. Once that's ruled out, you can deal with it as a beha-
vioral problem. If it's a hardware floor she's peeing on, try
to get a urine sample by drawing some urine up through a syringe.
Bring immediately to vet's. If vet is not open, refrigerate.
The most accurate ph results are obtained with fresh urine.
Donna
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| 463.3 | | INK::KALLIS | Hallowe'en should be legal holiday | Tue Feb 03 1987 16:07 | 11 |
| My vet has a good (but not guaranteed) rule of thumb:
_Usually_ when a cat urinates on a hard surface, it's a medical
problem; _usually_ when he or she urinates on a soft surface (rug,
clothing, bedclothes, etc.) it's a behavioral problem.
If it's behavioral, then it's usually related to a real or imagined
change of status.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 463.4 | Nugget trains John | CADSYS::RICHARDSON | | Tue Feb 03 1987 18:00 | 4 |
| A friend's altered tomcat made it VERY clear that he did not appreciate
my friend's taking in another altered tomcat: Nugget started urinating
on John's waterbed! When John got rid of the new cat, Nugget's
behavior went back to normal. He sure got his point across!
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| 463.5 | Other notes on this topic... | XANADU::RAVAN | To light a candle's to cast a shadow... | Wed Feb 04 1987 09:31 | 7 |
| See also notes 348 and 384 for further discussion of this. (I believe
there are other notes about this problem, but they didn't turn up on a
DIR/TITLE=SPRAY command. Come to think of it, neither will this one,
unless the author or the moderator would like to do a SET NOTE/TITLE
command on the base note...)
-b
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