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@Bandit's Mom @smorgasbord putting the pee update here haha.

The vet said that they did find some bacteria in the sample, but it wasn’t a lot at all so it wasn’t clearly indicative of an infection…they said it could have just been from bringing a non-sterile sample. So they said that I could either bring him in for sedation and a sterile sample or just continue to monitor him at home and only bring him in if he continues to pee outside of the box or have any other signs of infection.
 
Is there anything that could be stressing him out? Am wondering about other reasons besides an infection that could affect LB habits.

My civvie Budge does a strange thing. We keep the litterbox near a wall. When she faces the wall, she pees okay, but when she pees with her back to the wall, she stands mid-way through the pee and pees outside the box. I've no idea why she does that!
 
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Bandit's Mom said:
Is there anything that could be stressing him out? Am wondering about other reasons besides an infection that could affect LB habits.

My civvie Budge does a strange thing. We keep the litterbox near a wall. When she faces the wall, she pees okay, but when she pees with her back to the wall, she stands mid-way through the pees and pees outside the box. I've no idea why she does that!
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Mocha also sometimes does that. She always pees against the front or back of the box instead of the middle lime all my others. I’m trying to figure out what type of box would eliminate that as it’s hard to clean the grout and wet litter scatter. Tiffany did that when sick every time so I had to buy pee pee pads to put under her box.

Is any urine getting in the box with George? Perhaps he’s doing the same.
 
What a day we’ve had…George burnt his tail on a candle! Luckily it was just the fur but I felt soooooo bad :( poor kitty seems like he can’t catch a break sometimes. We had guests over so everyone was kind of distracted and he jumped up to see one of them and flicked his tail through the flame. Ugh. No more candles on anything he can reach around here. He’s acting completely fine now and playing though, which is good.

The two times George peed outside of the box recently he actually went in a completely different room than the litter box…both times on the bathroom rug :rolleyes: I sprayed it with urine destroyer before washing it both times, so hopefully he doesn’t think it’s now an appropriate place to go. I’m thinking I’ll just monitor the rest of the week to see how he is and if he does it again.

I’m hoping the new vial of insulin I ordered helps with his numbers too, but marks marine is having shipping delays so I’m not sure when that will be in.
 
Poor guy!

Yeah the bathroom rug seems either behavioral or not feeling well vs lazy/weird LB habits. When I first brought Mr Kitty in for peeing outside the box, the vet said behavioral. Anything from another cat nearby/outside the window, something in the house moved location, a tap dripping, new sounds in the house, all sorts of random stuff I'd never have thought of. Had us try feliway but it made him a little weird and territorial actually

Turned out to be the 'beetus of course

Any chance legs or back are bothering him? Paw pads ok?
 
Yeah, if sedation is a must, I’d rule out behavior first, eek.
I feel like bathroom mats are a go-to second box choice. Like if he were being naughty, he’d go at the base of a plant, or in a corner.
Temp decided bathroom mats were litter boxes in the past, but it was because his box was unavailable running (CatGenie) so maybe George is seeming it not clean enough/suitable for whatever cat reason that we can’t tell?

Oh my gosh that must have been terrifying. Did he actually lose fur on his tail, or just scare the crap out of you?
 
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