Attn: Georgia cat lovers

[dragonchilde]

I'm looking for a home for my precious Minette. I don't have any pics available, atm, but I am trying to find someone who is willing to love this cat.

She's about 4 years old or so, and is very loving. She doesn't like being held, but she will make herself dizzy going back and forth.

PArt of her problem is that she urinates in the house, outside her litterbox, so she's been banned from the outside. The thing is, I live in a house where my mother let her dog go crazy. He would urinate EVERYWHERE. I honestly think that this is what is triggering her, because she never had this problem before we moved here.

I don't like her being outside all the time, because I just don't have time to love her like she deserves. I basically only see her when she's hungry, and honestly rarely even then.

She's a very sweet, if rather stupid, cat, and I'd like to see her go to someone who will be very patient with her, and even if she can't stay indoors all the time, she does very well for short spans wth supervision.

If you know someone who would like to give her a try, let me know. I'd really like to see her adopted to a loving family. Please email me at [email protected] (I don't check in here more than once every couple of weeks)

[PayItForward]

One are you willing to help her alter her behaviour, I know several PT's who have retrained weeing cats using drugs ?

If you just want to rehome her, I would try your local non-kill shelter but don't forget she'll be luckly to get a home in the middle of kitten session.

[moosmom]

Have you tried taking her to the vet to rule out a Urinary Tract Infection? Cats are very clean animals. If she's peeing outside the box, that is mostly likely an indication that she's sick. Before you go rehoming her, please, for her own good, rule of sickness!

[dragonchilde]

Trust me, she has no UTI. The problem isn't her...its the house. She's genuinely not intelligent enough to know better. The dog that lived here previously peed EVERYWHERE. She smells it, and it triggers her to urinate.

She's not sick. And there are no local no-kill shelters. I will keep her outside before I take her to the shelter, because she WILL die if she goes there. Here, she's happy, and while I'm not crazy about her being outdoors, she never wanders far, and is deathly afraid of cars.

She just deserves better.

[leslie flenner]

Irregardless of the urine smell throughout the house, cats are naturally clean creatures and abhor peeing in an area where they can't cover their urine and feces. When a female is not using the box, it doesn't mean she doesn't get it, it means she's physically uncomfortable. I encourage you to have her checked by the vet- a small price to pay as kidney and bladder problems can be deadly. The problem with cats sometimes is there is only one symptom or none- often they are diagnosed too late to treat because they don't complain- females with uri's don't cry like males (my experience anyway) so it is easy to pay no mind and just figure the cat is having a behavior problem! Call the vet!

[Uabassoon]

If you have taken her to the vet and are 100% percent sure that she isn't sick I would try to retrain her. Put her in the bathroom with a litter box, then if she is successful with that gradually make the space she is allowed to be in bigger. If you continues to use the litterbox with no problem then you can let her have free roam of the house again.

[emily_the_spoiled]

If your mother's dog pee'd everywhere are you planning on redoing the floors, i.e. replace carpets and underlay, etc? There are procedures to help get rid of the smell if it is embedded in the flooring.

Maybe this would help with Minette's problems????

[dragonchilde]

As I've said, I know it is not a UTI, because she HAS BEEN CHECKED BY A VETERINARIAN. Regardless, part of the reason I want to find her a new home is because I can't afford vet care for four animals anymore.

As for the house, we can't afford to completely re-do the entire house.

<<When a female is not using the box, it doesn't mean she doesn't get it, it means she's physically uncomfortable. >>

Trust me, you don't know this cat. She is honestly that dumb. I love her to death, but she is NOT smart. The thing is that she will use the litterbox, and does, she just can't be trusted not to pee elsewhere, as well.

These problems didn't start until we moved from our apartment house to my mom's house. She's been checked by a vet, no UTI. She still uses the litterbox, just not consistently. She has never defecated outside the litterbox...just peed. It could be a territory thing, even though she's been spayed.

Besides all that the entire point of this post was to see if anyone is looking for, or could help me find someone looking for, a cat who is very loving. She's a wonderful girl...if I can't find a good home, I will keep her. I owe her that. I just wish she could be an indoor kitty again.