WELCOME TO PT!!! The BEST website around!!! Great friends, great pets, lots of good advice and support is what you'll find here.

Before you go dosing up a cat with drugs, try and Feliway. I've got a 3 year old cat, Bad A$$ Buddy. He is a wild man!!! I have never seen a a cat so eager to play. A friend of mine has a cat on Prozac and he's a zombie. I had a cat on those kinds of drugs years ago and did not like what it did to him. He WAS a loving kitty before. Then I took in a cat, Tucker, who came from the streets of NYC. He kept sabotaging Casey in the cat box. Poor Casey was cranky and lethargic on those drugs. I felt it best to rehome Tucker. What a difference. Tucker is living in a 3 story Victorian home with my two friends (Mike and Carolyn Kodas who climbed Everest) and living the life of Riley, in a garden filled with catnip.

In the beginning, BAB was peeing to mark his territory, as he wasn't sure where he belonged, having had 7 homes in the past year. The last home was with a cranky old man with no patience who complained about him jumping all over the place, knocking stuff off his shelves. After 6 months, the old man finally gave him up. I could tell by Buddy's reaction to me that this guy was overly squirting him with a water bottle, and probably swatting him with a newspaper. UGH!! The vet said it was behavioral and to try the Feliway spray. I have never seen anything work as good as Feliway. You just spray it about 8 feet in the air in every room (You can also get a Feliway defuser that is much more expensive) and you can see the look on the cat's face that the enzyme that only cats can smell, kicks in.

BAB has since stopped peeing and is happy and healthy. He's put on weight and is very comfortable here.

I hope you find a happy medium here. I know sometimes we have to make decisions (like I did with Tucker) that we don't want to make. Good luck.