Hi, you may not remember me but its good to see a few old familiar faces around.
I used to post ages ago and had a silver queen called Lyra. I got really busy, we moved, we were offline for ages and I kind of got out of the habit of posting.
OK - here is the plea for help/advice
We successfully bred Lyra to a lovely brown spotted bengal and got a really nice litter - 7 kittens. We found homes for 5 of them (one of them was given to a friend with post natal depression and I am almost certain the kitten was instrumental in her near instant uplift in mood
) and we kept 2 girls - a silver and a brown. They are now just over a year old.
They all litter trained w no trouble at all but the brown came into call and started spraying. She cycled in and out of call a lot and sprayed and then just peed on the carpets. I had the vet give them all that contraceptive injection as i am not sure if we will breed again but I want a year to think about it and not shut the door on the option for ever by spaying them. We will be moving to a larger house in the spring and it might be more do-able.
Anyway, the brown just continues to pee in several specific areas of the hall (notably, one of the major areas is by the front door) and living room carpet though she does poo in the litter tray. I have 3 litter trays and they are kept super-clean. I have tried putting noxious things or furniture where she likes to pee but then she just moves her pee spot. I clean the pee spots very thoroughly with detergent, not bleach or vinigar.
I am at my wits end. I think I am doing everything right but its beginning to make the house irreperably grody. We are very very very fond of this cat and dont want to sell her off to an outdoor situation, but dont have the facilities to have her in an outdoor situation where we will be moving to - we are going to be in a large house attached to a hotel that we are taking over and so we cannot have the smell of cat pee wafting through the building.
Any suggestions? A couple of other things that may be clues to you are:
the cats are a bit overcrowded for now and are having small conflicts
The brown seems quite dominant
She also seems "wilder" than the other two - silvers
When she gets the chance, she likes to do her number twos in the poor dog's water bowl!!