House stinks of cat ****! What's happening?

[garythesign]

bexVN said:

That could help but just need to be careful that shutting the cat out of rooms does not stress it further and incite more spraying.

Good point. Hadn't thought of that.

Ours doesn't have stress in his vocabulary

[telecat]

We have a Magnetic cat flap but Minnie is a three legged cat with a very active tail. The tail tends to flick the flap and hence the flap will not fully close and a friendly local does pop in to steal food every now and again.

[Fastchas]

My sister's cat has taken to peeing in the house. Downstairs loo floor, indoor plantpots, bath/sinks. Turns out there a new cat that's beating the hell out of her and she's too fearful to go outside.

[anonymous-user]

He has been brawling quite a lot with a little ginger cat that's been hanging around outside.

Maybe that's something to do with it.

I've tried throwing buckets of water over the ginger cat but it's very aggressive and keeps coming back.

[bexVN]

NinjaPower said:

He has been brawling quite a lot with a little ginger cat that's been hanging around outside.

Maybe that's something to do with it.

I've tried throwing buckets of water over the ginger cat but it's very aggressive and keeps coming back.

Sounds very likely.

Natural calming meds (not px drugs) such as Zylkene, Kalmaid may help your cat. Still need to check it is not medical, they can get cystitis with stress and both these products can be used to help with that as well so good to use either way.

[MOBB]

Your cat gets chased through the catflap at speed by a bully cat. Both get in.

Bully cat sprays your walls/floor to say "hah".

The only question mark, can bully cat get back out through the catflap?

Might have happened this way?

[anonymous-user]

anonymous said:

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No litter tray

He only used it briefly when he was a kitten and then just went outside after that.

[Old Tyke]

Your neighbour is growing a weed farm. Weed plants stink like tom cat piss.

[Old Tyke]

wombleh said:

Smoking Growing certain prohibited substances can smell very much like cat piss....

[Allanv]

My local has a fig tree and that stinks like cat piss when the weather is warm.

[Emanresu]

wombleh said:

I've read about cats tailgating through those flaps but it doesn't sound very likely.

Smoking certain prohibited substances can smell very much like cat piss....

What have you been smoking??? I've smoked a lot of stuff and none of it ever smelt like cat pee.

[Old Tyke]

Emanresu said:

What have you been smoking??? I've smoked a lot of stuff and none of it ever smelt like cat pee.

Weed plants before they're harvested and dried have a very similar strong stench to cat piss. If your immediate neighbour is growing weed it's very easy to tell from the smell.

[wombleh]

Not been smoking it myself (m'lud) but smack stinks of cat piss.

If it's the same staywell flap that we've got then it only stops incoming cats, no latch on the outside, so would be possible for a tailgater to escape.

[anonymous-user]

wombleh said:

If it's the same staywell flap that we've got then it only stops incoming cats, no latch on the outside, so would be possible for a tailgater to escape.

It's a Sureflap.

Staywell are utter, utter cheap garbage IMO. I went through two of their top end model catflaps in less than 12 months before throwing it in the bin and buying a Sureflap. Best thing I did.

[bexVN]

NinjaPower said:

wombleh said:

If it's the same staywell flap that we've got then it only stops incoming cats, no latch on the outside, so would be possible for a tailgater to escape.

It's a Sureflap.

Staywell are utter, utter cheap garbage IMO. I went through two of their top end model catflaps in less than 12 months before throwing it in the bin and buying a Sureflap. Best thing I did.

Sureflap are good, though I will say our Staywell lasted 10 years and the replacement is about 2yrs old and in excellent condition. The first one was used all day by 3 cats (the strong winds we get actually caused most of the damage in the end (and a toddler wrenching it the wrong way)

[Spydaman]

Modify your cat flap so it lets them in but not out again and see if you've got kitchen full of cats in the morning. I did this when we had problems with next door's cat coming in and eating our cat's food. When I caught it I persuaded it not to come in again by squirting it with the kids supersoaker.

[wombleh]

Ah sorry you did say that, I mixed them up. Ours is a sureflap too. Haven't been smoking anything, lack of sleep from toddler, honest!

[yellowjack]

Hmmm?

I don't have a cat, yet if I leave my garage open for even a minute while unattended I come back to find one of the neighbours' little scrotes has sprayed my big tool box, or my coveralls, FFS! Worse still, if the toolbox (it's a former US Air Force 'cabinet on wheels', really) is open the little st sprays the INSIDE of the box, meaning I have to take everything out to clean up a sticky gunk that looks like highly concentrated lucozade and stinks to high heaven.

I swear, if I ever manage to catch it, it's going on a long, long journey. Either that or I'll shut it in and suddenly find the urge to go on a nice holiday. Or I'll neuter the little fker myself, quite possibly with a 'mole' grips and a lump hammer...

[bexVN]

yellowjack said:

Hmmm?

I don't have a cat, yet if I leave my garage open for even a minute while unattended I come back to find one of the neighbours' little scrotes has sprayed my big tool box, or my coveralls, FFS! Worse still, if the toolbox (it's a former US Air Force 'cabinet on wheels', really) is open the little st sprays the INSIDE of the box, meaning I have to take everything out to clean up a sticky gunk that looks like highly concentrated lucozade and stinks to high heaven.

I swear, if I ever manage to catch it, it's going on a long, long journey. Either that or I'll shut it in and suddenly find the urge to go on a nice holiday. Or I'll neuter the little fker myself, quite possibly with a 'mole' grips and a lump hammer...

Lovely sentiments on an animal friendly forum.

[yellowjack]

bexVN said:

Lovely sentiments on an animal friendly forum.

It's either Basil, or Chutney. They belong to my neighbours, one each side. Beautiful cats, I've posted photos of Basil in the past doing his very best "finial on a summerhouse roof" impersonation. The last sentence/paragraph in my post was meant as a humorous exaggeration of my feelings when I find the spray on my tools.

I'm the exact opposite of an animal hating nutcase. FWIW when 'Blue', my lovely neighbour Irene's cat, went missing I went out down all the local alleyways, along the edge of the local brook, looking for him on my bike, as it meant I could cover more ground while she knocked on doors and asked people to check sheds/garages. Sadly, we've all but given up hope that Blue will be found alive. He wasn't even my cat, but I miss him sitting on my driveway plotting new and interesting ways to stalk the local Magpies. But you'd have to admit that it's intensely frustrating to reach for a socket set only to find some buggering furball has pissed all over it.

And again, for the avoidance of doubt. That bit of my post where I dreamed up inventive ways to punish a cat for doing something it doesn't even regard as 'wrong' because it knows no better? Yeah, I didn't actually mean that...