This Space for Rent

Not exactly what we were expecting

Our oldest cat, for reasons that are hidden inside her furry brainless head, has taken to peeing into the radiator in the dining room. After several months of trying to coax her into using one of the catboxes upstairs, we got a recommendation to use some sort of "confort zone" cat pheromone atomizer that's supposed to act as if it was kitty quaaludes and make the cat less likely to be nervous and peeing where it shouldn't.

The instructions were to plug it in and let it work for a couple of weeks, so we did that. And rapidly discovered that the "cat pheromones" in question are the same cat pheromones that give catpee its alluring aroma.

So how we've got a cat pee atomizer running in the dining room. And, despite the strong cat pee smell which is now slowly permiating every permiatable item in the house, it still hasn't stopped the cat from peeing on the floor. Oh, joy.

I think if everyone ever recommends a "cat pheromone paste" that we can apply to things that the cat pees on, we'll just say "that's nice" and move, rapidly, to the next subject (Like whether to use nuclear weapons to clear the lot for our next chateau-du-cat-pee, because it's probably going to take US$75,000 worth of cleaning to apropriately disinfect the existing structure.)

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The cause might be that she isn’t allowed to eat by the new BIG cat. Maybe he doesn’t let her pee in the appropriate place either.

Grandma Fri Oct 27 11:32:09 2006

You know, I lived in rural areas for a long time. Every time I told one of my neigbours about an expensive problem I’d had with my pets, their answer was always “a bullet only costs 25 cents”.

Paul Tomblin Fri Oct 27 12:01:15 2006

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