Quote Originally Posted by rosethecopycat View Post
In my opinion, it's better not to really clean the area. Let it dissipate on it's own. The action of us cleaning up is what actually makes the cat re-spray.
The cat visits the place where he's marked and doesn't find his scent, so what does he do? He marks it again. Make any sense?

Your cat's hormones will gradually go down over the next few weeks.
I suppose if it works for you then keep on doin' it, but in my experiences if you don't get it cleaned up it certainly doesn't go away... one of my parents' older male cats I was taking to the vet and he was not neutered, he sprayed all over the backseat of my car! We of course tried cleaning it and we thought it would go away, and the smell did for awhile, but every now and then on a warm day you would get into the car and WOOOOH the smell was almost over powering!!!

I eventually sold the car and feel sorry for the person who has to deal with that on a nice summer day, lol.

Other experiences are if you didn't clean it up right away not only would that cat keep returning to the area and use the same spot, OTHER cats would start using that spot, too, especially if you had more than one unneutered male in the house, and it would get so out of hand.