Ugh! My cat peed on the couch

poet_kelly
on 1/8/12 4:36 pm - OH
Which just happened to be where I was sleeping.  I do not know what I am going to do with this cat.  But guess what I get to do in the morning?  Yep, scrub the couch.  What a thing to wake up to, after my four hours of nightly sleep.

View more of my photos at ObesityHelp.com          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.

 

Ladytazz
on 1/8/12 4:46 pm
My son and daughter in law had a problem with their cat peeing everywhere.  They even put him on Prozac because the vet said the cat had anxiety.  That didn't work and it turned out the cat had a physical problem and needed to have surgery.  My son said it was $2000 for the surgery and wasn't guaranteed to work.  Fortunately it seems to have been successful.   I have another friend who had the same problem with her cat and it turned out she had diabetes.  If this is an ongoing problem you may want to get your cat checked out.

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poet_kelly
on 1/8/12 4:57 pm - OH
Oh, she's been checked out more than once!  My vet also thinks it is anxiety.  We tried meds for that but they did not help.  She does have diabetes but it's managed well with diet and a very small amount of daily insulin.  She has been checked more than once for UTI's and bladder stones and stuff and nothing ever shows up.

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.

View more of my photos at ObesityHelp.com          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.

 

Ladytazz
on 1/8/12 5:04 pm
My dog has been having problems with anxieity, too.  She had cancer surgery and was spayed at the time and since then she has been agressive towards the other dogs.  She had also been acting depressed for a while before the surgery so the vet just put her on Prozac.  It seems to be helping a little but she is a lot meaner then she used to be.  
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.

poet_kelly
on 1/8/12 5:06 pm - OH
My cat is 12 years ol but she's done this for about eight years now.  Just not usually on the couch.  For the first four years I had her, she always used the littler box.

View more of my photos at ObesityHelp.com          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.

 

UK_Longhorn
on 1/8/12 7:36 pm
Well I kinda feel your pain.  This morning my one year old (who I am certain is training for MMA fighting, she can break any hold) got away from me while I was changing her diaper and she peed on my bed!!  Thank god for Martha Stuart's mattress protector!  Slippery little booger.  Sorry you had a rough morning!
    
poet_kelly
on 1/8/12 11:55 pm - OH
Aren't all one year olds training for MMA?

View more of my photos at ObesityHelp.com          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.

 

SweetGirl11
on 1/8/12 8:01 pm

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    (OH member since 2004 - new user name)

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poet_kelly
on 1/8/12 11:59 pm - OH
I will look into the Composure.  Thanks, I'd not heard of it.

View more of my photos at ObesityHelp.com          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.

 

nkara
on 1/8/12 10:15 pm
 I had a cat who used to do that to me... he even peed ON me a few times.  Turns out when I started dating my now ex-husband I wasn't home that much and he was mad at me ... once I started paying more attention to him he stopped and never did it again.    {he was literally pissed at me }
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