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Originally posted by TexLex
Did we have this discussion before? It sounds familiar.
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We just may have. This has been happening since the very beginning of 2003. It started when kitty noticed the smell of baby pee on the twin bed in baby's room (where I changed her) but he didn't "spray" or mark this "territory" . Rather, he FULLY EMPTIED HIS BLADDER on the bed fully several times and it was awful. I simply kept the door to the nursery shut. Problem solved.
But then he smelled the pee pee on the upholstered furniture downstairs (I guess from when the baby climbed on the furniture) and started peeing on those pieces. And so began a long stinky journey which included (1) endless Internet purchases of Odormute; (2) living in a house that smelled worse than a phone booth in the bad part of town; (3) curling up with my kid to watch cartoons on the couch and then realizing she was sitting in a pool of cat piss; and (4) crazy episodes of me, outside in my pajamas in the winter at 2 am, with the baby monitor strapped to me, trying to slowly drag various pieces of now-urine-drenched antiques (from my long gone Grandmother) out onto the street in the cover of darkness, hoping someone would take them or the town remove them, but needing to get them out so when Vietbabe woke up she didn't come down and climb on them and I had no more clean towels to throw over the hideous things.
When we finally had NO SEATING AT ALL in the home, I got rid of the cat and that was just recently. So, yes, we've probably talked about this. Now that he is still doing it at the new owner's home, and he doesn't have a UTI (checked with vet 3 times) and is on special food already for urinary tract, and all behavior stuff has failed, he is either going to have to be "made an outdoor cat" or put to sleep. But he's declawed and spayed and scared of the outdoors. If the meds don't work I'm going to have to put him to sleep. If I take him to a cat shelter, the whole cycle will begin at a new home and another move would really agonize him. Does it seem cruel to put a cat down under these circumstances?
