Stressed/territorial cat - peeing outside litter box

[Kim & Buster]

I'm full of cat-mom guilt today. My diabetic kitty Buster has peed/sprayed on the kitchen floor every night for the last 3 nights. I think he's stressed out with my other younger cat wanting to play and he just wants to sleep and chill, lol. My current space really isn't big enough for the two of them to have their own "territory" and I carry a lot of guilt about that - I wonder how much of Buster's high glucose levels and now the peeing is due to chronic stress. I'm moving into a much bigger place July 1st and it can't come soon enough. I hate feeling like my cats aren't happy where they are right now. I'm going to try restarting Buster on fluoxetine (he was on it for a while pre-diagnosis for similar peeing outside the litter box issues) and I wonder if that'll also help his glucose go down a bit if it is stress. In the meantime I'm just counting down the days until we move and begging Buster to hang in there until then.

 

[Bron and Sheba (GA)]

Sorry you are having this issue. Is there any place you can put Buster for a few hours a day so he can relax and sleep….or out the other kitty?

 

[Kim & Buster]

Sorry you are having this issue. Is there any place you can put Buster for a few hours a day so he can relax and sleep….or out the other kitty?

Not really, aside from the bathroom, which would just piss off the trapped kitty. Busters gotten good at finding his hiding spots or going into his little beds where he’s left alone, but I think at night the younger cat gets more active and that’s where the trouble starts. It doesn’t seem like they’re on top of each other during the day but overnight I hear them “playing”/fighting and wake up to pee on the floor.

 

[Melinda and Kitkat]

Hiya Kim, sorry to hear this about Buster,
I know you said you have a small place, but is there any chance of setting up a second litter box so that there is less chance of Buster smelling the other cats' fresh business when he needs to go ? I know it might be a silly question, just wanna offer some help. Just wondering if it's more a territorial thing rather than their late night shennanigans?

 

[Kim & Buster]

Hiya Kim, sorry to hear this about Buster,
I know you said you have a small place, but is there any chance of setting up a second litter box so that there is less chance of Buster smelling the other cats' fresh business when he needs to go ? I know it might be a silly question, just wanna offer some help. Just wondering if it's more a territorial thing rather than their late night shennanigans?

Thanks Melinda We do currently have 2 litter boxes. They both use one of them pretty often, but the second one is mainly Buster. We don’t have room for a third anywhere else for now

 

[Melinda and Kitkat]

Yikes, so much for that, I'm sure if you have 2, then 3 litter boxes wont change that.... so maybe something else, stress as you say, are these 2 kitties new to eachother? aka the younger one a recent addition? If they've been roommates for awhile now, maybe it's just a short phase and will come right again ??? I know the feeling of cat-mom-guilt, and it can sometimes make ya crazy with worry, looking deeper into any behavioral change than it warrants? I do hope it resolves itself very soon.

 

[Sienne and Gabby (GA)]

How about setting up several Feliway diffusers? That may help to lower Buster's stress and may help to calm down the younger kitty.