We don't know what to do and need advice please.
Last December we rescued an 11 year old male cat that has spent all of its time outside-except when a neighbor would let it in their apartment sometimes at night. Unfortunately this family had mental problems and they NEVER cleaned their apartment. (I will explain why this might be important shortly). This cat has been fixed for as long as we have known about it, which is almost 10 years. We have two female cats that get along very well with the male. All cats are strictly indoor cats. This poor male has done little else but eat and drink water for the last six months. I suspect that he still doesn’t trust that the bowls will be full again tomorrow.
Here is the BIG problem:
He sprayed everywhere at first-but seems to have stopped that. Our problem now is that he pees everywhere-and I mean everywhere. We have two large litter boxes that we clean twice daily and he had been using them for the poops-but he feels that he can just jump up anywhere and pee. I caught him in the act once and clapped my hands and yelled “NO” but it only seemed to scare him. I worry that because he lived part-time in a house where no one cared if there was pee he might have gotten the idea that it is OK to do this. We had him checked out at the Vet because when we first brought him inside he did have bladder problems (frequent urinations with blood) but we were successful in clearing that up three months ago.
We are close to having him destroyed because we couldn’t (and I don’t think he could) bear to be put back outside. We need help fast!
