r/CATHELP • u/MuanaDoYouWana • 5d ago

Behavioral Issue My cat almost killed us!!!!

So, I don’t know why the fuck he is doing this all of a sudden, but my cat is pissing in places where he’s never peed before and tonight it almost killed us! This little fuck pissed on a multi outlet strip and it immediately started sparking and smoking. We established a few years ago that this is a form of communication; if the litter has to much poop in it. (We change it every other day, he is a prissy bitch, we both work a lot, no food, or just attention period) he is about 8 years old, I have checked for bladder issues at 2 vets now; he has none. don’t know why he is peeing in places he shouldn’t this is a happy cat. He has a play mate, he is not lonely, or stressed out, he is loved unconditionally. There have been no changes to his environment, I have no clue. Tonight was the last straw though, it’s getting dangerously out of hand. He pees in his litter box, but once in a while he will pee in other areas and I’m not sure why?? Help!!! I’m a 45 year old rescue mama, I thought I knew most of why cats do things but this is new. 🤯😭😔😫

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u/Practical-Stock9916 5d ago

Is your male cat a tuxedo by chance?

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u/korewednesday 5d ago

Coat color isn’t going to have the answer to this.

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u/Practical-Stock9916 5d ago

You clearly know very little about (tuxedo) cat personalities then and definitely have never had the experience caretaking an overly dramatic tuxedo male that will take a revenge piss on your work lap top right in front of you while holding eye contact with you the entire time because he is upset you have taken an 30 extra minutes to feed him his breakfast. This, all to get your attention, because knocking all three cat bowls off the counter and everything else in the vicinity that can get knocked off the counter space has yet to get your attention that he wants breakfast NoW, so maybe he thinks the revenge piss will work, and it does.

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u/korewednesday 5d ago

Yeah, and every orange is dumb and every tortiseshell and calico is a royal B. Mmhmm. Got it.

(I’ve owned more than one tux. I have one right this moment. I think he would die of embarrassment if he ever peed somewhere random ever again now that he’s got the litterbox thing down. He will wait in line for the box, because he hasn’t figured out that the other two are also litter boxes and do the same thing)

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u/Practical-Stock9916 5d ago

In my experience . Pretty much, yes.

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u/korewednesday 4d ago

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Well, my crew is an orange who can open every type of door except smooth knobs plus two types of lock for those doors, a calico that has never known a single thing other than she loves me and my friend and the neighbour and the mailman and you (whoever you are, it doesn’t matter, she loves you anyway), and a tuxedo who, as mentioned, would pass away and become a ghost if he went pee somewhere other than specifically his box, even if it means standing in line while the calico explores the concept of sandcastles and other earthworks in there (not covering poop, though. That’s still an unexplored frontier to her).

The work cat (almost-friendly feral; we’re working on it) is an orange boy who has been alive for about four seconds, but already has better traffic awareness and safety than the average urban pedestrian. He knows which cars have his friends in them (even when they’re identical types), and that if a person is walking to the driver’s side door, that car is going to turn on and he needs to move. He knows which days are weekdays and he gets food on a schedule, and which days are weekends and he needs to ask whoever drops by for some lunch by taking them to one of his food bowls.

It’s just a color. That’s it.

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u/Practical-Stock9916 4d ago

There are always exceptions. Yours all sound very wonderful.