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We've a cat, nearly 18 months old. He is a male!!! Anyway, he has been neutered, a year ago, but he keeps marking his territory! He is a house cat, mainly because he was a rescue cat and he is still a little wild in his ways, but that is probably his age as well.

We have 2 other cats, both neutered, a girl (19 yo) and a boy (8 yo), who don't mark or anything like that.

He mainly marks the living room curtains, can't tell you how many times they've been washed. Have sprayed them with a herbal spray that is meant to make him stop, have also tried orange oil. He seems to be doing it less and less frequently, but I thought that once neutered that would be that! Or could it be that it is his 1st spring since the op? So trying to get rid of those urges?

Help!! I do have other washing to do!

Any suggestions welcome.... within reason :P)

Janner France

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Janner
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Have never had a cat spray inside, but our last cats did in the garden probably as the result of a neighbours cat who sprayed our garden a lot (if must have been overwhelming for a cat nose!).

Our cats were a male and a female, both neutered (as was the neighbour's cat). Neutering does not stop the need to mark territory.

With 3 cats we get very few other cats in our garden, and I have not actually seen any of ours spraying - perhaps they don't feel their territory is threatened.

Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~ (uk)

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We've a cat, nearly 18 months old. He is a male!!! Anyway, he has been

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Sally Swindells

Sounds like a stress thing---you might try Feliway (ask yer vet about it). It's a pheromone that helps relax puddy tats. That said, there are some cats who never stop spraying entirely---just what you didn't want to know

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Neeji

This is one of the big reasons I don't have kitties. My sisters are both cat people and both are always battling the spray in the house problem with at least one of their pets. When I stayed with my sis three years ago after she had been in the hospital, one of her kitties decided I was an interloper or something and chronically sprayed my legs.

Sorry you're running into this. I'd definitely talk to the vet and get kitty some kind of chemical help.

Sunny

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Sunny

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jennellh

I agree with this, as a possibility. We have three neutered boy cats. They get on fine, but had started to use the floor rather than the litter box (well, one of them had - we don't know who!). I asked for advice and someone said get another box. So, we have three boys and three boxes in their night-time room. As Jenn says, they all use whichever box they fancy; but the inappropriate use of floor has more or less stopped.

Were they introduced well, Janner? It's difficult to know whether or not they are 'getting on'; but if there is a problem of that sort, Feliway should help. . In message , jennellh writes

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Patti

Yes, it's not that uncommon, and the fact that it's curtains he's hitting make me think he's seeing another cat outside that he's marking his territory against. There's quite a bit on spraying behaviors in the old usenet faqs for rec.pets.cats (try the "problem behaviors" faq), and there is also Feliway, a synthetic cat "happiness pheromone" that was designed for reducing spraying and anxiety. I know it's available in the UK, not sure about France.

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Kay Lancaster

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