Cat constantly peeing!!!

Hey! Just looking for some advice on what to do!

My indoor cat Luca is 1 years old and I’ve realised he’s constantly peeing/spraying everywhere in the house (he pees in his littler box too.) I’m constantly cleaning up cat pee and using different types of cat pee stopper, odour remover and stain remover sprays but once I clean it up, he goes back and pees when the smell disappears or finds somewhere else. I have moved furniture around the house to cover the places he keeps going back to but once I take that place away from him, he finds somewhere else. Sometimes he pees while I’m sleeping and I just don’t know where and the smell is just lurking. I hate that he’s doing this and I can’t even get him neutered due to him having a grade 4 heart murmur and wouldn’t manage the surgery. I don’t like people coming into my house either due to the constant smell of cat pee! Any advice would be so appreciated as I have a 2 month old baby and he’s been doing this since way before I got pregnant. He still gets loads of attention and we make sure he gets a play in with us everyday and he doesn’t seem stressed in anyway

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Not sure if this would work but could you talk to your vet about chemically castrating? Xx

Maybe get the vet to check for a UTI? They’re more common in indoor cats. My boy had FIV and when he caught a UTI he couldn’t fight it off and we lost him :( x

Following! I literally just found a new spot where my cat has peed/sprayed and we also have a 2 month old. It is so frustrating 😭 I hate the smell as well!

We are currently trying to find a female cat so they can mate with hope that this will make him stop 😶

This is so unfortunate as spraying pee is super normal for an un neutered male cat, and once they start doing it it’s very hard to stop them as it becomes behavioural. Have you had a different vets second opinion on neutering?

Poor thing the most obvious answer is its coz he is not neutured and cats are territorial so they spray to mark their scent but its a tricky one that he has a heart murmur, have you spoken to the bet about any other way to manage this? Secondly it could be the change with having a baby stressing out the cat and marking makes him more comfortable but i know you mentioned the cat is fine with the baby. How many litter trays do you have as they say you should have two per cat. Also suggest you to use feliway plug ins helps to calm down a cat and reduce soraying if their stressed

I really hope you work it out! Its the worst when cats spray :(

You could also speak to the vets they might be able to prescribe some medication to manage it.

I will bring it up next check up x

I’ll need to take him to get checked for one. He seems absolutely fine though! Just constantly peeing or spraying outside his tray

we’ve seen about 2-3 vets since he was a kitten x

I can’t unfortunately or he would be! We live in a top floor flat so would be impossible for him to get into the close etc x

we only have one litter tray but he’s never had an issue with it. Ever since he was a kitten he knew how to use his litter and never had any accidents etc. he has been doing this since before I was pregnant. He started doing it in my daughter’s room before anything was in it, so I closed the room door and then he started peeing in my living room. Because I moved the furniture in the living room and put things over the usual spots, he started doing it in the hall and then because we gave him into trouble and kept catching him trying to, he’s gone into another bedroom. It’s like every room in the house that’s getting it one by one. Once you stop him doing it in one spot or take that spot away, he’ll find another ☹️

my mum has a female cat and I’ve been debating mating them but someone told me it will just make it worse when we take him away from her🤔! Im just trying everything at this point. I couldn’t bring myself to rehome him as he’s actually a really good cat, it’s only the spraying/peeing that is driving me insane! Plus no one would take him anyway due to this issue and he’d end up going to a shelter. Couldn’t do that to my boy 🥺

I always thought they calm down once they do their biznezz 😭😭😭 I'm literally in the same boat as you. He is such a good boy and it's just the spraying. I also really don't want to neuture him as I've heard they can gain weight and just generally change and become less playful and themselves 😔 it's such a difficult position. I literally bought one of those feliway plug ins, I hope it works 🙏🏻

The feliway plug in is excellent, you need to give him another litter tray, regardless of whether hes good at using it, hes spraying to mark his territory so you need to show him that the whole flat is his territory by allowing him acceptable places to mark i.e extra litter tray, scratching posts cat tree, cat bed, blankets where he can use other forms of scent marking like scratching and rubbing. This will allow him to feel secure in his territory and stop him from overcompensating by marking with pee.

I need to get one of the plugs. Let me know if that helps your cat x

I will get him another litter tray! He’s got 3 covers around the house, 2 cardboard boxes, 2 scratching posts/cat trees, 4 cat tunnels and a basket full of toys! So I’ll get the plug and another tray to see if it helps x

do you mean another litter tray in a different room or the same place?

no I only have the one. But I will get another x

I’ll get him another and put it in another room. He’s only got one and it’s in the bathroom x

Only way to get him to stop is by fixing him.. However, I did read that you cannot fix him Maybe ask of that about medication??..

yes in a completely different part of the house,

Its best to have a litter tray in the room that they spend the most time, or the room that they show a desire to pee in most.

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