Oi... How old is this guy? Anything new going on in the house beside his behavior?
I don't know how attached she is to the cat, but I had a friend who had a very large, two level "cage" built for one of thier cats who had this same problem. Can't say it is a perfect solution, but they wanted to keep the cat badly enough...
This cat has issues, he was an orphan and was really aggressive as a kitten and young adult, and will still haul off and bite you hard enough to draw blood if he feels like it. Not to mention that he walks around the house howling for no reason.
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Good luck Jennifer. This sounds like an exact repeat of a cat my wife and I had years ago. We tried everything, even some type of valium for cats. Nothing worked.
I had a cat like that when I was a teen. It would literally poop next to my pillow as I slept. (I know ! :sick It was one that had wandered up to my house even had a nickname "Screwball". Did the same agressive stuff, but it was the first cat my mom let me keep and I loved her so I just cleaned it up. Only happend about 3 times. She ended up dying mid run, just fell over dead. We thought it was some type of aneurism. Mine sometimes hang over the box and miss. A canopy or covered box might help (I have the freshstep hence the canopy). Maybe you can learn it's schedule as far as feeding and elimination times and try to confine it until it goes. Cats are really tough nuts to crack sometimes. Good luck
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One of my Persians has similar issues (without marking). Vet did not find anything. Sometimes he would sit next to the litter box and meow. I open the cover, pick him up, place him there and wait till he's done. It always works. Sometimes he asks to go do it outside. I think he prefers clean open spaces. Sometimes hairballs cause him discomfort and he makes a pile in the corridor. Brushing him out and giving him hairball treatment helps with that. And sometimes he just hates everything and makes a mess in protest. I am trying to keep him happy and clean up
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It's a long shot, but worth a check (unless it's already been ruled out). My boyfriend's step mom bred Ragdoll cats for some time and only had one experience with a cat acting this way. The family actually brought him back because he was so out of control. Turns out, he was cryptorchid. They never knew because the vet charged her to neuter four kittens, but actually only did three. Somewhere someone forgot that they hadn't done one of them. So she sold the kitten to a pet home and later on in life he started acting this way out of nowhere. I forget exactly how they figured out he was cryptorchid, but I know she took the cat to a different vet to rule out any sort of UTI etc. I want to say they did an ultrasound but I'm not 100%.
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It was one that had wandered up to my house even had a nickname "Screwball". Did the same agressive stuff, but it was the first cat my mom let me keep and I loved her so I just cleaned it up. Only happend about 3 times. She ended up dying mid run, just fell over dead. We thought it was some type of aneurism. Mine sometimes hang over the box and miss. A canopy or covered box might help (I have the freshstep hence the canopy). Maybe you can learn it's schedule as far as feeding and elimination times and try to confine it until it goes. Cats are really tough nuts to crack sometimes. Good luck
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