Posted: 1/20/2026 8:21:05 AM EDT
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We adopted two littermates about a year old. Good cats. The female was spayed last month. The male has taken to pissing here and there. Large clean litterbox. Would fixing him prevent this? Not sure what's going on. Thanks |
| Yeah, it might help. But you should have 2 litter boxes minimum for 2 cats. We had 3 when we had 2 cats, now we have 4 with the addition of the new gas station kitten. Just added a small one. All of our cats only go in the litter box, and the kitten hasn't been spayed yet, too young. |
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| In addition, do not place food bowls in close proximity to litter boxes. Male cats in particular will piss when they are upset with something and having food close to litter boxes is a known trigger. Sometimes, just relocating food will trigger this type of response. |
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What others have said. Plus: Is your cat seeing other cats outside? Or maybe in an apt and there is a cat across/down the hall or something. They can start urinating in unapproved places if it's territorial or there's an unfixed female around. if you can temporarily keep the cat from noticing other cats, it might help stop the problem for the short term. Once they are adults, male cats don't have a lot of drawbacks to getting clipped. Other than the behavioral improvements, they don't have additional cancer risk or whatever. Clip them too young and they act more like females (and grow up looking like females) without the big male face. But if the cat is a year or more old it's time to get it done. |
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Originally Posted By RR_Broccoli: What others have said. Plus: Is your cat seeing other cats outside? Or maybe in an apt and there is a cat across/down the hall or something. They can start urinating in unapproved places if it's territorial or there's an unfixed female around. if you can temporarily keep the cat from noticing other cats, it might help stop the problem for the short term. Once they are adults, male cats don't have a lot of drawbacks to getting clipped. Other than the behavioral improvements, they don't have additional cancer risk or whatever. Clip them too young and they act more like females (and grow up looking like females) without the big male face. But if the cat is a year or more old it's time to get it done. |
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Originally Posted By Cooper1: Thanks. We have another litterbox I should set up. I keep seeing litter advertising that it's great for multiple cats. I guess that's bullshit. How do I assign the boxes?  |
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OP add two more litter boxes and don't hide-hide them, put them in different rooms. Get a UV light used for spotting cat urine, then at night or with the rooms dark you can check for where thie marking is going on. Some cats, esp male cats, will spray to mark territory, and this can be due to social dynamics. "This is mine, keep out" or "KEEP AWAY YOU SCARE ME" or other such things, and you may be able to stop that by finding out what the social situation is and resolving it. As soon as you see something has been marked or pee'd on, you want to use *enzymatic* urine removers on them. They are the only thing that will remove the urine crystals by chemically "eating" them. Not even bleach will remove those crystals. People will tell you getting them spayed stops them from marking - my experience is - don't count on it. You get them spayed for other reasons. Eta: if your female is not clipped the outside strays will know and they will all act like insane little demon monkeys trying to get some. Get her clipped if she isn't. |