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I've been through this before. (Even posted a thread on it about 3 years ago or so and got blasted for even considering putting the cat asleep.) It's not a biological issue. It's a behavioral issue.

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Originally Posted by john70t (Post 6967440)

I've got a small tool box which I bought at the San Jose flea market about 15 years ago. Someone puked in it. It's been washed and baked in the sun several times. Still smells like puke every time I open it.

Is it then some sort of keepsake?
Chuck it!!!!

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Originally Posted by jgreen (Post 6966926)

Some years ago we faced the same problem. We had two cats that we loved (my wife slightly more than I) and discovered that one was using everything but the litter box.
We knew it was the older of the two so I packed her up for a vist the Vet. I went alone as I had a premonition the results wouldn't be good and my wife wouldn't handle it very well.
As expected, the Vet, after a thorough examination, declared that nothing could be done other than putting her down. I chose right then and there to get it over with so I agreed and the Vet took the cat. He asked if I wanted to take a paw print or memento home with me but I declined. Going home without the cat was to be bad enough.
After many tears at home we agreed it was the best thing to do as living with a cat peeing everywhere was unacceptable.

Two days later I discovered it was the other cat! Couldn't go back to the same Vet and admit mistake so I went to a different one with same story. Now we have just a very nervous Retriever that refuses to go for a ride in the car with me.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1347304645.jpg

i cant stop laughing at this, i need to see a shrink

Always interesting to me as a cat person that any thread dealing with cat behavior is 100% guaranteed to produce "kill the cat" posts. Doesn't happen in dog misbehavior threads.

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Originally Posted by techweenie (Post 6968681)

Always interesting to me as a cat person that any thread dealing with cat behavior is 100% guaranteed to produce "kill the cat" posts. Doesn't happen in dog misbehavior threads.

must.......resist.......cat.....jokes.......

However, you are correct, sir.

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Originally Posted by techweenie (Post 6968681)

Always interesting to me as a cat person that any thread dealing with cat behavior is 100% guaranteed to produce "kill the cat" posts. Doesn't happen in dog misbehavior threads.

They were probably abused during childhood.. prolly by their overlord cat

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Originally Posted by nostatic (Post 6960174)

My cats are awesome, especially my tabby. She knows the sound of my car and goes to the window when I come home. If I'm on the couch she's normally on my chest head butting me. When I go into the studio to practice she follows me and sits on the keyboard bench and sleeps while I play. When I'm done she follows me out of the room. When we're eating dinner she will usually go to her dish and eat as well.

Not every cat I've had has been like that, but a number of them have.

Every cat I have had has been like that. Just lucky, I guess.

Just a quick update. We were gone for a little over a week, so we put towels down in the most popular problem area, and she consistently piddled on them. This Monday we took her in and had her bad teeth pulled and had her nose fixed - they do something with frickin' laser beams to open up her sinuses or something.

So far, so good - I'm probably jinxing it, but she hasn't violated the floor yet.

we finally got a guy moved out of our apts next door to my house. everyone complained about his cats outside stinking up the place with many of them living behind my house and pissing up my porch. I had counted at least 8 outside his door one afternnoon. well.. after having to get a judge to order him out, animal control had to be called to remove the 40 cats he left inside. there's still 3-4 hiding in my back yard. the windows and door were left open to air the apt out and I can smell the oder de pisse de chat from my door 75ft away. probably have to rip out flooring and cabinets to get rid of the smell

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Originally Posted by widebody911 (Post 7001210)

Best of luck. This would be a fantastic outcome to your original problem.

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Originally Posted by oddjob uno (Post 6960215)

once upon a time...............we had a kat up in evergreen colorado named poco(big mtn kat). He was a he and he sprayed everywhere anything.

One day much to poco's demise................he sprayed my buddies pillow. I am howling laughing, buddy is pissed big time.

Well he grabbed poco and ran into bathroom, stuffed poco's fat azz into the toilet,slammed the lid down, and proceeded to sit on toilet while flushing over and over and over and over .................................and over!

I was in hysterics!

When he finally lifted toilet seat poco bolted like a saturn 5 rocket tied to his azz.

Never evar to spray in the house evar again!

True story!

And to this day................thats what we call the "butt -whirlies!"

lol

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Originally Posted by widebody911 (Post 7001210)

good luck!!

unofficially i have renamed my two cats..to "second to last cat" and "last cat ever"

i am done.."Second to last cat" got some bladder infection and flooded my bowcase. nuclear, toxic pee!! cats are not less work than dogs.

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Originally Posted by widebody911 (Post 7001210)

...something with frickin' laser beams to open up her sinuses or something.

...

were sharks involved?

congrats tho!

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Originally Posted by widebody911 (Post 7001210)

When we were going through this, it took about a week to be sure, but we noticed an immediate "personality transplant" with the cat. We are now 9 years later and only one "accident". :D

Always wondered why dogs would scoot around on their butt and neurotically chase their tail.

This may be related: Anal gland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"In cats, these glands may become impacted, causing the cat to defecate outside the litter box, almost anywhere in the house"

I should have posted an update, but I've been slackin':

The fat lady has not yet sung. The cat is still peeing where she's not supposed to, She never stopped, she just found new places to do it. Originally she was constantly peeing on the expen$sive runner in the hall, until my wife got tired of cleaning it and rolled it up and put it in the garage.

My wife didn't think it was that big of a deal when the little &^!@% peed in my laptop case, but you better believe her closet is locked up like Fort Knox now.

Lately the cat has been peeing in my wife's bathroom, on the rug in front of the toilet and shower. Every. Single. Day. And usually more than once. The routine now is for my wife to throw the rug in the wash when she gets home from work. Every. Single. Day. The damn cat will look my wife right in the eye while she does it, too.

Here's an update on the various hypothesis that have been tested and failed:

Maybe it's a medical issue? Nope - several tests resulted in nothing more than an annoyed cat and a vet who's slightly richer for the experience.
Maybe it's a medical issue #2? Nope - some psyc meds for the cat resulted in a stoned cat - which still peed on the floor - and the vet's kid got braces.
Maybe it's the food? Nope - tried a couple of different types of prescription food, one of which gave the cat explosive diarrhea, but she thankfully she managed to land that in the litter box. The vet is now shopping for a new sports car.
Maybe she's not getting enough attention? My wife spent $50 on cat toys an tried dedicating a day to play with the cat, which the cat loves for the first 10 minutes or so, and then she's "done"
Maybe it's litter box contention? Nope - she's added two litter boxes; one never gets used by any of the cats, the other is ~ 2' away from the new favorite pee spot
Maybe it's stress? Nope. She blew $50 on some special air freshener plug in that humans can't smell, of course. Some guy at PetsMart lost a bet on that one. "Dude, I can not believe someone actually bought one of those! (*sigh*) Here's your $20."
Maybe it's because the other cat chases/stalks her on the way to the litter box? Nope; she'll pee on the floor with the other cat asleep on the couch. And she she poops in the litter box just fine.
Maybe it's the litter? Tried different scented/unscented/organic litters, no change. And she she poops in the litter box just fine.

For a short while, the cat was peeing in the tub, which my wife thought was acceptable, but that reprieve only lasted a few days.

The next thing she wants to try is to train the cat to use the actual toilet, but if she's not peeing in the litter box that's right there she's not going to climb up onto the toilet.

Another hypothesis she wants to test is "Maybe the cats need more territory," so she wants to open the guest room back up, but she wants me to to install doors on the closet, since she keeps clothes and shoes in there. There's also another bedroom that I use for parts storage that she wants to open up to the cats, and put a litter box in there.

At the end of the day, I think it's a defective cat. My semi-educated guess is this thing was the runt of the litter from some backyard breeder. It wasn't properly socialized and trained; it was just a "crop" to be harvested and sold. The rescue gave us a touching tear-jerker of back story which I think was BS.

The longer this goes on, the harder it will be for my wife to come to a rational decision.

BTW, can't anyone recommend one of those blacklight things to find cat pee? I bought one @ ACE Hardware, but it didn't work for squat, even when pointing at places where in normal light I could she she had peed.

some put cats on prozac to stop this kind of stuff
don't ask me about dosages , check with the vet, maybe he can confirm and dose or deny

We didn't have a problem with a cat pissing all over the house. But, we did have a problem with one of them pissing outside of the litter boxes. We tried every thing from adding additional boxes to changing litter. The problem remained.

Then I thought about our cats are getting older. Maybe one of them was having trouble getting into the litter box. So, we bought one with lower sides and that worked for a while. Eventually, I bought a couple of boot trays that have a lip of about one inch. That has rectified the problem.

Not sure if it will address your issue. But, I thought I would throw it out there.

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Originally Posted by svandamme (Post 7100384)

some put cats on prozac to stop this kind of stuff
don't ask me about dosages , check with the vet, maybe he can confirm and dose or deny

The meds thet prescribed (don't know the med or dosage) make her loopy and she sleeps all day.

OTOH, the question I put to my wife was "Do you really want to have to buy this stuff and give it to the cat every single day for the next 10 years or so?"