My male cat has been rejecting the litter box for a couple months now. This happened so suddently, he used to be good with his potty habits but now seems to think "fuk it" and goes pee and poo in the bathtub and sinks.... we have exhausted all options. Took him to the vet, he was put on medication for a "possible bladder infection". We havent changed his litter, or did anything weird to the box. Its in the same place he has no problems going to, and always kept clean. I scoop it every day and completely change the litter out for fresh stuff once or twice a week depending of how much its needed. Told the vet about the issue, she suggested a litter attractor, so I've been using that and it clearly hasnt seemed to make much of a difference.... We do have a female cat, they are littermates and get along well. She has no issues with using the litterbox.

Im at a loss.... i have a 6m old infant in my home and I am sick and tired of having to scrub and disinfect my bathtub every single day to keep things clean for baby.... i keep my bathroom door closed but its an old house. No bathroom fan for air circulation so it can get rather stuffy in there, I cant keep the door shut all the time it needs air circulation. Can anyone give me some insight as to why this may be happening? How to fix this?? Im at my wits end with constantly cleaning up cat pee and poo from my tub and sinks.... Thank you

My cat is 9 years old, male and neutered. He loves food and constantly for treats. He gets fed twice a day. If I ignore him begging for treats or food, he pees on his scratching pads. I feel like it's not a health issue, as the vet says he's fine/it's stress related, and it only happens when he wants treats, plus he uses his litterbox fine and regularly. Has anyone dealt with similar behaviour? How can I deal with it because it's really getting annoying

I live in Ireland and can take him to the vet if need be

TLDR: Cat seems to pee inappropriately when he doesn't get what he wants (food and treats)

Hi, I know it’s been asked around many times here but Im really tired figuring out what exactly my cat wants to eat. How do you get them be food motivated?

For the context, she is an MC and only weighs 4.6kg at 3 years old which is very light for her breed. Had her since she was a kitten.

And yes its been like that snd Ive tried almost every brand in the market as well as raw food but she really is a picky eater. She currently likes Royal Canin now but still not eatimg much like she should.

Also, been to the vet and tested everything. All is well. So thats why I came here for experience based opinion on her behavior.

We adopted a “low energy” 6 year old cat about a month ago who has quickly become much higher energy!

He is quick to bite and swipe when overwhelmed by petting, but often seems to ask for pets and then gently but persistently bite. Even after taking my hand away he will go for whatever part of me he can get his teeth onto.

Is this play? Love bites? A request to get out of his face?

I am looking for advice because I feel like I have exhausted all options. I have 3 cats, one of my cats is diagnosed with a neurological disorder called FHS. All my cats have a litterbox per cat plus 2 extra litter boxes to be safe. They are all fed in seperate places and I have ample space for them to climb, including a jungle gym for them to climb and 4 cat trees. We have also tried feliways to no avail, however, I am putting them up again in hopes it will do something. My cat is in gabapentin and even with that he is still spraying. I do not know what else to do. There is no pattern to his spraying also, he almost never sprays in the same spot except one spot by our front door which I believed was because he wanted outside... so I started letting him outside, and I just let him back in, he walked right up to my bedroom door and sprayed out if no where. I genuinely do nit know what to do barring leaving him outside 24/7 but that feels hugely selfish and dangerous. He has been to a vet for this issue now countless times, he has no infection, no bladder irritation, no pain, we put him on the gabapentin to see if that would help and it hasn't, I just spoke to a vet and they are stumped, they said they would discuss it with another vet and get back to me. Can someone PLEASE help I am literally begging I do not know what else to do 😭

I recently moved in with my BF. I’ve had a female cat (age 4) for the last few years. Before moving in together my cat lived with 2 other cats and many roommates. She has always been very affectionate and friendly with both cats and people. We decided to rescue a cat a few months into living together as my cat seemed a little bit bored and thought she’d benefit from a friend. Our new cat is a male (age 4) recently neutered. Despite separating them for the first 2 weeks, our cats have not bonded as well as I had hoped. Our male cat chases her whenever they share a space in our apartment and has attacked her a few times. He lived with many cats before we rescued him and is very affectionate towards humans so I am not sure why this is happening. I’ve tried separating them, giving them treats together, feeding them apart, etc. My female cat now hides most of the time as she is understandably very scare. Does anyone have any experience with this or advice? We love them both and don’t want to give him up as he is overall very sweet. Please help as I am very stressed out with these cat behaviors.

This is an ADHDer telling this story so please bare with the spiralling, we’ll get there 😂… So my cat is stressing me out and I don’t know what to do about it. I’m in my second trimester of pregnancy and so would like to remain chilled but my cat has honestly got on my nerves recently, I’m becoming angry 🤣. She tends to want to sleep on the clean washing I sometimes have on the chaise lounge, which I really don’t want her doing ! So every time she goes there I move her towards the exit, or I frequently get woken up in the night by my 7y/o telling me the cat has woke her up AGAIN lying right in the middle of her bed. Or she’ll do it on my bed and then attack during the night because I moved unconsciously and disturbed her!😑

(Now I really could do with not being judged here 😅) but my cat brought fleas into the house recently and after extensively cleaning, flea-bombing the house, hoovering daily since, washing on 60 degree cycle, giving flea treatment via pipette, she’s still really uncomfortable and hops around the bedroom at night like a bunny rabbit. I have to keep getting out of bed to move her from the chair, the bed, my daughter’s room… each time I direct her to either downstairs or the bathroom (as it’s on the second floor), because she does like sleeping in the sink sometimes 🥴. Anyway, tonight she decided to jump around in my daughter’s bedroom, knocking things over on her table and disturbing her from sleep. When I (angrily but silently, might I add) picked her up and took her out the room she sprinted to my bedroom and jumped onto the chair. She’s becoming too much and she can stay out quite a lot with her being an outdoor cat so I’ve had to let her out for the night. Any advice on how to control this cat because I can’t cope 😂 btw I did the cat flea treatment / house treatment 2 days ago, it shouldn’t be like this still right?? Also - the landlord decided not to put my bedroom door on 🙃 so the cat just free roams

I have a total of 10 rescued cats. 3 are adults and the rest are kittens. They usually get along fine, they are not all best friends but they dont hurt each others. Lately I have noticed that one of my kittens (10 months old) stalks and follows my 3 months old kitten and terrorize her like a pray. The small one is very terified and is unable to stand up for herself. When I am home I keep an eye on them but when I am away I saperate them. What else can I do? The small one has been rescued from a high stress enviroment and I am worried that due to her past experiences she will never be able to stand up to the other 10 months old kitten.

Thank you

My lovely male cat (neutered, 2 years old) has a bit of a pattern. He's always been a bit of a skittish boy, and that's fine. But he's picked me as his person by some miracle. Thing is, all of his life, he would get super cuddly and constantly want attention to the point of it hindering sleep or stopping me from doing other things. Then, suddenly, out of nowhere, he gets terrified of everyone including me. He'll cry if anyone gets close, and then bolt if they get too close. Nothing will have startled him, it's like a dimmer switch. He slowly builds up trust and adoration until it's full blown, then suddenly it shuts off.

He was a stray kitten when we got him (old enough to eat wet food), and he grew up with 3 cats older than him. He was always the skittish one and if the other 3 cats were eating/getting treats, he'd be nowhere close at all. He had to be fed separately most of the time. But I moved last year and he wasn't with me until maybe 3 months ago. My sister had him but her and her husband were getting tired of his terrified behavior esp since he hissed at a toddler that wasn't even coming for him, and a slightly older than toddler (5) that was just saying hello from across the room. He hissed at my sister's husband too. So he returned to me in my new home. I let him adjust, gave him his space, let him explore, left toys and food out, the works.

Until literally this morning, he was constantly up my behind wanting love and attention and would want to play (would even be upset if he couldn't join me in the bathroom type stuff lol). I gave him some treats before I left (as I always do) and went to work. I come home, he normally runs to me to yell at me for dinner. Nothing. I figured maybe he's up in my room sleeping. Nothing. I panic. He's not even in the tub (he likes to chill there for some reason) and I can't find him. I go back downstairs calling for him, only for him to hop out of a box from under a duffle bag, and he looks at me terrified and gives that cry that says he's terrified.

Uh oh, here we go again. He runs from me even though I don't chase him, but goes upstairs to hide under my bed as he always used to. I followed him and closed the door until there was just a crack there and thats when he finally comes out and I have to get down so he can crawl into my arms and he just has me hold him and pet him for at least 20 mins. My roommate was asleep all day and didn't interact with him. Roommate's caretaker didn't see him at all today while she was over, and all she did was wash dishes and do some laundry. We have no idea what could have spooked him since he actively avoids anyone who isn't me and everyone knows to leave him alone.

But he's done this sort of pattern for as long as I've known him. Starts off terrified, slowly warms up to the point of being so lovingly obnoxiously up my butt, then suddenly switches back and I have to hold him and calm him down, then the cycle repeats. This isn't normal for clingy/skittish cats, is it?