hi everyone, i've heard about a spray which cats hate the smell of, so they
don't wee inside. has anyone else heard of it?
if so is it safe ect

I don't know what the spray is that they hate the smell of, but weeing
inside - whether weeing or spraying - is commonly a behavioural problem and
can be stress-related, so a spray like that might make them more stressed.

I've used Feliway with good results - it's a spray based on cats' natural
facial pheromones, the idea being that they won't then do things they
shouldn't in places they can relate to the smell of.  The down side is that
it's horrendously expensive, about £13 for a 60ml bottle, and you need to
respray the likely places every other day or more.  I had to give up on
Feliway because of the cost, but I still have a bottle handy for spraying
cat baskets with for trips to the vet etc as it's good for calming down
nervous cats.

Sometimes you need to look further afield for the underlying cause.  I think
I've solved a problem with one of my cats spraying (it's early days yet) by
pestering my neighbour to have her adult tom castrated - my reckoning being
that the tom was spraying all over the place outside, so my Juno was coming
inside and marking his territory.  I've thrown out perfectly good electrical
goods because of it, and I've no enamel left on the bottom of my fridge
door.

One of my other cats was weeing, rather than spraying, on my hall carpet and
the best advice I was given was to wash the carpet throughly with a strong
solution of washing powder - it has to be biological, not non-bio, and other
household detergents contain amonia so only make the problem worse.

Hope some of this helps.

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