Once in a blue moon, for some reason Zeus wees in his bed or on his bedding. It is not because we have changed his litter type of have not cleaned it out often enough, so why does he do this? We let them sleep on our bed once and Zeus decided to wee then as well, for no reason. I was not impressed having to wash ALL the bedding, believe me and am reluctant to let them sleep in our room now incase he does it again. Hestia never does anything like this. Anyone got any ideas on how to try to stop him doing this. Is it at all possible?

Zeus is still a BABY in many respects. I have had that happen with me, with Dagger ONCE... but he's been sleeping with me regularly.

Consider yourself lucky, if he wasn't laying against YOU when he did it (grin) Dagger was sleeping slammed against me so when I felt the <span style='color:blue'>"warm wet"</span> -- he was still doing that little paws twitching dream sleep. He had actually done it IN HIS SLEEP. So NO way could I even be angry, even though I had to change the sheets, matress pad AND my jammies

I think they MAY be a little like "human" children, and that sometimes if they drink a lot, before they go to sleep - they do it in their sleep, much the same as a toddler would.

I can't remember exactly how old Zeus is -- but that would be my FIRST inclination.

MY first "attempt" to correct the behavior would be to take the water bowl up, a little while before bedtime... that way, he wouldn't be "drinking" close to bedtime, the same as you would restrict how much a child would drink before bedtime, if they were "wetting the bed". I can't do that, because I have an OLDER cat, who I need to have water down for at all times. So I resorted to a "waterproof matress cover, and since I bought that, he hasn't done it, again :rolleyes:

Just a suggestion.

I know it's like "punishing" Hestia, too -- but if they get into a "pattern" that the water isn't available after a certain time, at night --- it MIGHT help.

The only other thing I can think of, is if Zeus is old enough to be beginning to get his "mature" hormones... he might be in the early stages of "marking" what is his. If that is the case, having his "surgery" may correct it, with NO action from you. Just make sure anything he has "weed" on has been cleaned with something that neutralized the odor - or he will continue to go to those spots.

Hopefully someone with more experience with bengals than me, might have some other suggestions.

Good Luck !!!
LaVon

He could be doing it in his sleep on some occasions, but once we definitely saw him squat and do it, so that was no accident - makes me think he is making some sort of protest?

The time you SAW HIM DO IT... was it in a place he had "done it" before?

If he "weed" on it, in his sleep, and the odor was NOT neutralized COMPLETELY - he could go back to the same spot, again) in fact, it would be natural for him to return to a spot he had wet on, before.

Or, am I hearing that he's possibly PROTESTING something??? (grin)
Have you done something to earn his "dis-favor"???
LOL

I'm hoping you find a resolution to this soon. It can be a very frustrating thing to deal with. :unsure:

Again, Good Luck!

Nope, this was a new place, I'm sure he's trying to tell us something when he does it, but we're not quite sure what, he's only done it a few times, so it's not a major problem, long as it doesn't get more regular!