As some of you know Jasmine started spraying in the house recently (she's about 2.5 years old now) and initially I thought it was due to Meg kitten (who is now coming up a year) but after getting a behaviourist in we've actually realised that she's spraying due to other cats on the block. She only sprays at night and it's only after she sights another cat out the front of the house (from looking out of the lounge window).
Last night I saw her in full action. You can tell when she spots an 'intruder' cat as she runs manically from window to window and last night I spotted a white cat on the driveway opposite and she dashed into the conservatory and sprayed up the window. We never see another cat outside during the day it's always at night
We've got things down now to her regularly spraying twice a week on average and it's usually on windowsills on windows at the front of the house.
The last couple of week's she's been harder and harder to get in at night and last week for the first time ever we heard 2 cat fights out the front about 10pm and both times she came in shortly afterwards with a scratch across her nose
She wears an identitag so lately we've been having to track her down at night and pick her up and bring her home as she wants to stay out 'patrolling' but we want her in at night.
On the plus side her and Meg are getting along fairly well and she seems happy at home. I'm pleased I know why she's spraying at that it's nothing to do with Meg but I don't know what we can do to try and deal with the spraying now.
We've got 3 litter trays around the house, feliway plug ins, I use feliway spray each night on the spray sites, numerous feeding/watering stations around the house, lots of interactive toys and recently we bought a huuuuuge activity centre which she likes.
Would just welcome any suggestions at all really.
My latest plan is that we adopt the huuuugest male kitten from a rescue litter and he can grow up to protect the house for her and be her bodyguard
Only joking of course!!!