Urgently need help with peeing cat
Hello all,
Long time, no post. I've got a problem and I'm not sure how to handle it. My heart cat, my dream come true kitty, soulmate kitty Minion, has started peeing on the carpet in my house. He has done this before, in 2 of my old houses, but my old houses were rentals, and once it was partly due to a UTI he had. I took him to the vet yesterday after seeing him empty his bladder on my living room carpet and they did find a small trace of blood in his urine so he's now on antibiotics.
If I didn't love Minion so much this wouldn't be such a problem, but I just adore that cat to no end. But I can't have a cat peeing on my floors and ruining my house. I just can't have it. I have had 'the big talk' with him, telling him that this is non negotable. If he feels the need to ruin yet another of my homes, he can't stay here anymore. I've had that talk with him, I've had him medically treated, I scoop the litter box every day, I don't know what to do about him.
For the longest time, I couldn't figure out how someone could dump a cat like Minion. He's just so precious. He's so much like a dog in so many ways, he ALWAYS greets me at the door, he sleeps by my side or by my face every night, he follows me around from room to room. He loves my husband and I. He seems so happy. He loves his sister, Mindy. No I realize this must have been why he was dumped. Why on earth does he feel the need to pee all over my houses?
One thing I hate is walking into a house that I visit and smelling cat pee. I refuse to have my house be that way to others. I am very tidy and clean, and not only did he ruin our carpet but the hardwood floors underneath are stained now. We were pulling the carpet out anyway, but now we'll have a perminent stain in our lovely hardwood floors from him emptying his bladder on it. He must have peed in that very spot several times before I realized it. I had smelled cat pee, but I couldn't see where until I cought him 'scratching the carpet' to burry his pee. In the last house we lived in, there were no carpets, so he peed on my guest bed twice. This bed is one of those real expensive Select Comfort Sleep Number beds. It cost $1200 for the matress alone.
I've given him a wonderful life. I don't know what else I could possibly give him to make him stop ruining our things. I even give him special food for urinary health.
The vet gave us a sample of this litter training aid called Cat Attract. The vet said that it sounds behavioral due to his frequency of doing it, possibly due to any cats in the neighborhood that he feels the need to mark for.
Now for the solution. If Minion keeps doing this, I will be forced to either humanely euthanize him (oh God I hope it doesn't come down to that), forcing him to become an outdoor cat and live in my privacy fenced in back yard (that he has no way of getting out of), or rehoming him with someone who doesn't mind cat pee all over the place. Of all the cats to fall in love with, I picked the one with some really bad behavorial problems. I will never get another cat because of this. It just makes me so angry and heart-broken. I've cried many, many tears over this problem and I don't see any improvement in that cat. He continues to pee in my houses. He continues to ruin things. He has peed his last innapropiate pee. If he does it one more time, he must go. I am done giving him chances and letting him do these horrible things to my houses/furniture.
Anyway, this is my last cry for help. Does anyone have anymore ideas/suggestions for me? Is this as common as the vets keep telling me it is? If Minion does have to go away, will my other cat, Miss Mindy, be able to handle being an only cat? They are really bonded and really adore each other. I'm just so sad and confused.
