Why Is My Cat Spraying All Over My House?

Your cat holds it tail high, most often from a standing position, and lets fly its most pungent substance. If your cat sprays, you'll find the evidence about a foot or so above the floor depending on how tall your cat is.

You may ask, "Why does my cat ruin my house?"

The answer is simple: Because your house is your cat's house.

Cats spray for one reason and one reason only-to mark their territory. Human beings aren't much different. We set boundaries on land to establish who owns what-only, for the most part anyway, we don't use piss as markers. Cats do, however, and they have done this for thousands of years so it's going to be an uphill battle to get yours to stop. But you are not helpless in your quest. Here are some things you can try.

1. Get your cat spayed or neutered

Both male and female cats spray, although males are most often blamed. Spraying is greatly reduced by getting your pet spayed or neutered. Un-spayed females will spray when they are in heat and looking for Mr. Right Now. Spaying greatly reduces this behavior in female cats.

Neutering male cats is almost as effective. Animal experts claim that neutering male cats eliminates spraying in 90% of studied cases. Those are pretty good odds. But don't dismay if your cat is among the 10% who continue to spray. There are more options.

2. Help your cat protect its territory

Since its 100% natural for a cat to mark its territory, the less threatened your cat feels the less marking will occur. Work with your cat's instincts rather than against them.

If you have only one cat, then the threat may be present outside your home. Check to see if stray cats or other animals that might be competing for territory near your house. If you let your cat outside, the scents of other animals are certain to be present. Spraying outside probably doesn't bother you, but your cat may spray inside your house just to make sure that everyone knows this is your cat's territory.

If you have multiple cats in your household who may compete for territory, then it will be a little more challenging for you to play the referee. One way to lessen tension between opponents is to clearly identify the territorial boundaries.

Too many cats live at my house (I will be the first to admit this) because a friend, my mom and I decided to move in together. We are all cat lovers so we combined three households of cats.

Cats die off but somehow we get new ones. Our cat population averages around 8 cats at any time. Needless to say, cat marking can be a real problem for us. We humans are clear about which cats belong where, and we do what we can to facilitate these territories.

Tru and Kate rule Carolyn's room. Sassy stays with my mom. Socrates roams the halls and can be found most often in my daughter's room. And I, alas, have Little Kitty, Sonny, Simone and Sierra in my bedroom. Sierra (female) and Sonny (male) are dominant cats. Both spray from time to time, but by working with our cats' needs rather than against them helps diminish the spraying considerably.

One way to strengthen a cat's sense of ownership is to provide each cat with its own litter box placed well within each cat's territory. This also helps to diminish urinating outside the litter boxes-more a sign of stress than dominance. The goal is to let our cats know they are loved by lavishing them with affection, and to decrease threats to their territory.

3. Never Punish Cats!

Yelling at or hitting your cats is not only mean, it will backfire on you. When you increase your cat's stress level, they will lift their tails more often, not less. While dogs associate their owners' displeasure with their own behavior, cats make no similar connection. If you holler or try to smack them, they assume you are the crazy one, not them. Cats, as you probably know, have never been fully domesticated. They merely give us the pleasure of meeting their needs and letting us stay in their homes.

Carmen is an avid cat lover and expert on cats...especially the naughty ones which is why she started Bad Kitty Solutions. To get download a copy of her fun and free article called A Tale of a Tail: Is Your Cat's Tail Trying to Tell You Something, go to http://www.carmenreneeberry.com/BK-Sign-Up.html

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Identify and prevent that cats spray urine in the House

You feel this issue spread as resolve is a losing battle? You wished you had a bird, dog or ferret? About the Internet go and try, you have still a cat in the House proposals syringes? Think you not alone, because each of us had a cat spraying has said yes, to the above questions. There are no easy or quick workaround for this problem.

If the cat has a physiological (organic) problem, then the veterinarian usually can take this and you are one of the few lucky. The rest of us are dealing with psychological issues that are complex and difficult to resolve more. Typically, the organic problems are fixed, by the urinary infections with antibiotics to treat running sterilization, to stop the problem. Rare opportunity (and myself), the cat is still spraying to set.

Here is a list of tips that will help in dealing with a cat, is the psychological problems.

• Spend at least a half hour, a day to play, massaging, combing and caress your cat. If your cat is personal syringes, then it's probably upset with you about something. I like the contact split to several times a day, but do what you can have some time with your cat.

· If the cat is fixed and random on walls, doors, speakers, and furniture is then it is likely upset about other things. Like other pets, maintenance, routine change box in the House, throw, change to furniture, changes in access to the rooms and even problems with companies for a week or two. Cats are strange changes, they accept not change, and fight them tooth and nail.

· If labelling is the cat of Windows, glass doors or screen doors, this is likely due to another animal on the property. This is the other occurs regularly with indoor cats, animals which potentially upset in their territory. An indoor and outdoor cat is likely to put a confrontation first, and if they lose, this could fear, and they start, syringes, doors and Windows.

· If the cat looks out as it tried to pee into the cat toilet but does nothing, and shortly afterwards elsewhere find a puddle this is a bio-problem, and the veterinarian must check your cat.

Here is a list of tips, you need to start, if you first notice that the cat in the Interior of the House is spraying.

·, You buy a strong (100 Watts or more) portable black light. UV light will fluoresce urine and most of the other organic things and be visible. The House should work for the black light in dark. Are there to identify the lights from using coins or painter band around the locations. Go everywhere and in every room including cabinets and counters and accessible Entertainment Center. Forget not the garage when your cat it access.

· Pre rinse all sites with water and a cloth. 50 / 50 Water and white vinegar in a spray bottle (for pre-rinse, you can use as well as and twice washing). After drying you you with spray can enzyme wash active as "Miracle of nature". Try the vinegar first and enzymes as a last resort. Cleaning carpet with vinegar and add vacuuming dry baking soda to the humid area and let air before.

The goal is to have a clean house free of cat urine, because cats are in the rule to spray the areas are marked when the fragrance begins to fade. So get your House clean one by one is a start.

· This tip, I have most of the complaints and arguments to get because so far you have cleaned the House. The litter box duty has improved, and spend time with your cat, but you have more authority to a change in behavior to show. When Kitty is still spraying, then must it "in fact" start of syringes. This means for a weekend or so a cat follows, which is not the exciting or productive thing to do, but need to start a change in behavior. You need to catch the cat in the Act of the aerial spraying. I would like to very loud clap and use a water spray bottle as an effective means to change their behavior.

Let your cat know you not satisfied with their bear, is a must. What should you cautiously be, no physical violence or extreme shouting. The last thing you do is the cat now has fear of you a condition to create. If possible to hide the cat with water spray quickly off if the bottle so that it is not sure that you have made it. Often, a loud thunderclap works, because the cat not sure this makes what for a noise.

Most people would leave or put down your cat because of the emotional syringes. This is not a simple problem to worry about and you have to be very strong and determined to change your cat behavior. I recommend the brave souls who are ready to take up the challenge. Most people don't bother.

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