Ugh! My cat peed on the couch
Kelly
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WLS 10/28/2002 Revision 7/23/2010
High Weight (2002) 240 Revision Weight (2010) 220 Current Weight 115.
For a long time I thought it was anxiety because it started a number of years ago when I was ill and was in the hospital for a couple weeks and my cats were left home alone with just someone going in three times a week to feed them. It was really traumatic for them being left along that long, I think. Both behaved oddly when I first returned, including this one peeing in the house (not in the litter box). But mostly she pees on the floor but when she pees on the couch, that seems to me like something is wrong physically. I mean, she likes to sleep on the end of the couch that she peed on. Animals do not typically pee where they sleep.
Kelly
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It sounds like you have had your cat for a while. Could it just be part of aging, too? I think that is part of Tazzie's problem. She is old for a dog and I heard that animals can develop cognitive problems as they get older.
WLS 10/28/2002 Revision 7/23/2010
High Weight (2002) 240 Revision Weight (2010) 220 Current Weight 115.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Hi Kelly! I haven't been around here much lately. I'm so sorry your kitty did that! My kitty Milo has anxiety due to having lived in a "hoarding house" with 40 cats and then lived in a noisy shelter where we got him. I was thinking of trying a product called "Composure" for cats. My friend recommended it to me. It is a chewable natural remedy. It got great reviews on Amazon. It's a little expensive so I haven't bought it yet. You might want to check it out.
I really feel for you, having to clean that couch. For the first six months that we had Milo, he would NOT do his poop in the litter box - only peed in it. He would do his poop in the corner of the living room. NOTHING I did would change his behavior. My husband was beyond fed up. Finally, on Christmas Eve of that year, he did his first poop in the liter box and actually did a little "dance" afterwards and kept meowing like "I did it!" He has successfully pooped in the box ever since. We realized, after seeing those "animal hoarding" shows on TV that Milo probably had to compete for litter box space because he still has anxiety about going in the box (he looks behind him fearfuly and even stalls about going in the box).
Milo also sometimes "forgets" that he is alone here and does not have to compete for food. He will occasionally gobble up an entire can of food in one sitting so fast that he ends up throwing up the whole thing! Blech.
I hope things get better for your kitty. How are you doing? Belated happy new year! 
Michelle 
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Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
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