This cat owner has a problem with her spraying Siamese. She’s tried all the products on the market but nothing will help. Glynne’s advice - its to do with food!

Question:

Hi Glynne,

I have a 6/7 year old Siamese who is on the point of driving us to complete distraction. He can’t seem to stop spraying all our dearly loved furniture/clothing/ sound equipment (anything that is vertical) - we have used every product on the market including importing goods from the UK (such as feliway diffusers), all pet repellant sprays, brought in the wisdom of a pet psychologist and nothing seems to work. It seems to be worse when we are at home - he appears to go on the rampage especially when we are asleep. We have a cat flap which is locked at night so no other cats can come in. My husband is extremely attached to the cat - so finding him a new home is not even an option. We are now contemplating have an op to change him into a female as we can not take it anymore. He was neutered at 5 months. He is highly attached to us and is at our side the whole time when we are home (so aside from the spraying) we love him to bits. PLEASE HELP!

Hi Cherrie-Anne
You are wasting your time with expensive sprays which you have now discovered is treating only the symptom, and which is seldom successful.

Your Spraying Siamese cat is quite simply hungry and leaving you Pmail on the curtains – if you understand Catlish he’s asking you to catch a wake up and give him some decent grub …you know, the type he likes, and lots of it too.
Feed him a varied smorgasbord of all his favourite foods, leave it down and freshen it up 24/7 and you should be home and dry.
By the way, technically speaking there is no such occupation as a Pet Psychologist – we are known as behaviour consultants … and we aren’t all the same either!
Good luck
Glynne