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Saturday, late afternoon, I recieve a package slip in our mailbox; I have something waiting for me at the local postal outlet with 2.70 postage due or duty fees or something. I assume it's the BPAL swap I'm getting from Canada, think nothing of it, move on.

Today I get the BPAL swap coming from Canada in the regular mail (having had not enough energy to go to the post office, so the package of mystery is still there.)

WTF? Maybe one of my family sent Seaners a birthday gift or something? How unexpected.

Chris informs me that Sean tucked the little down throw over me while I was sleeping on the couch this afternoon. Aww. <3

In other news, our Large Stripey Cat has become COMPLETELY NEUROTIC and is pissing on our bed. Four times in five days, with the litter changed totally twice in that time. I have no clue why this is happening - as far as I know nothing's changed in the past week but this has GOT to stop. I'm sick of washing sheets... any ideas? I don't want to give him to the shelter, but if this doesn't stop, we may have to.

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Checked at the vet's? Sometimes inappropriate peeing can be going on because of plumbing issues. Also, have you used Nature's Miracle on the mattress and/or the sheets? Animals do have pretty good noses...

He's sharing space with an increasingly maturing, unnutered male kitten. Maybe it's making him territorial.

Also, adult cat+shelter = death sentence.

I'd vote for territory marking. It may not be fix-able, short of getting rid of the other cat.

Even neutered females will exhibit this behavior, as I discovered to my chagrin when I brought the current cat into the house as "company" for my older cat. I was too soft to get rid of either one, so I spent three years desperately trying to clean up and deodorize cat pee until the elder cat died of natural causes. And then throwing a whole bunch of stuff (including furniture) away, because no matter how much you get used to the smell, you can never entirely get rid of it.

Cats aren't pack animals by nature; they can be extremely territorial. And if they are, that's not something you''re likely to be able to change. )-:

check with your vet before you do anything else. Someone mentioned above that it might be plumbing issues - when my mother's cat had a kidney/liver infection she peed in the houseplants repeatedly.

And if the vet doesn't find anything, you may as well have him put down yourself. Taking him to the shelter will result in the same thing - he'll be euthanized or if it's a no kill shelter, he'll be miserable because he won't be with his people.

Hey--I second the ideas about 1) urinary issues or 2) territoriality.

Mosie pees in the bathtub whenever he has a urinary tract infection. I'm sorry your kitty picked your bed!!

If he's not acting unhappy about his pee-function (grooming his pee-pee a lot, for instance), I'd bet territoriality ... male cats have a tough time with each other, esp. when one isn't neutered (which I don't know for sure, am just inferring from another comment).

:( Let me know how it goes.

Here's a third on vet visit or fixing the kitten.

Make sure you soak the bedding in white vinegar before washing it. Its the only thing that gets rid of the smell to the cat. Washing it doesn't. Won't solve the underlaying cause but might stop the cat from doing it on the bedding and move to something easier to clean.

Yet another bid here for a vet visit and possibly neutering of the kitten. (This year and last our Leo had urinary blockages and that sometimes included small piddles in unusual places.)

I hope it gets resolved in a way that's helpful to you all and to your Large Stripey Cat.

1. I vacuumed a lot on Sunday. He hates the vacuum.
2. You need four catboxes if you have three cats. Yes, I know, it's- Stop. Stop screaming now. stop. you're hurting my ears. Ow.
3. Maybe the kitten needs to be snipped earlier than normal kittens, because he's had his mother's milk all to himself and he's had no competition for nutrients.
4. I would use a different kind of litter in each litterbox.
5. He needs a place to hang out where the kitten can't bother him.
6. Happy halloween!

Well, I put a second litterbox in our bedroom and now Mamacat and Babycat are hanging out in there and Large Stripeycat is hanging out in the living room. No incidents as yet, so maybe that helped? Here's hoping. I'm at a bit of a loss where to put the other litterboxes (litterboxen?) though.
Happy halloween! Did you get any trick or treaters? We got none, but I didn't figure we would, being in an apartment and all.

Yeah, we're always trying to figure out a better place to put the litter boxes and it never works. I wish I were a carpenter.
I turned out the porchlight so we wouldn't get any trick or treaters. Our door is hard to find, we're kind of the "mother-in-law" apartment behind the real apartment.
John is scaring himself watching "The Omen" with Julia Stiles and Mickey is scaring himself watching rats climb up and down the patio supports. I'm going to bed because I'm freezing and my back is cramping from shivering. Must...locate...electric...blankie...

I heart that show too! I haven't watched it in ages, but I have very fond memories of it.

I hope your cat stops leaving wet and nasty surprises on your bed. If it keeps up, I certainly wouldn't blame you for wanting to give him to a shelter.

Chris informs me that Sean tucked the little down throw over me while I was sleeping on the couch this afternoon. Aww. <3

*_* <-- meltyface
that's so cute!

Mickey went wee in a box of stuff in the computer room the minute I came home today.

Is he fortelling an earthquake?
Or just expressing his bad-kitty goth angst?

Tune in next week for more exciting* developments.

*irony

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Maybe we could build a spiral staircase up to the 3rd cat litter box

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