You read that right! On December 3, 2019, Sookie straight up peed on the hardwood floor in our den with Graham and me sitting right there. Sookie, the cat Graham always called “the perfect cat,” peed on the floor. It was not just a little pee. It was a giant puddle of hot piss.
My first instinct was to call the vet the next morning. I picked up the kit for collecting a urine sample and locked Sookie away in the bathroom. From a USB camera, I watched her actions. She avoided the litter box with a spattering of non-absorbable litter. She cried and cried and cried and cried.
I checked the camera feed frequently. Nothing. I even checked the camera every two hours through the night. Nothing. The next morning I went in the bathroom. I swished the blanket where she slept aside. Ugh! It was soaked in urine! I let Sookie out of the bathroom and threw the blanket in the washing machine. I was defeated! I called the vet’s office and arranged for the vet to collect the urine.
Of course, the urinalysis came back fine. Ugh! I really was hoping for an obvious reason for Sookie to pee outside the litter box. The vet said she had a small amount of protein in her urine which could indicate inflammation. I was given the option to administer a week-long course of antibiotics. Grasping at hope, I took the antibiotic option, but all it did was give Sookie diarrhea.
A week after the initial incident, Sookie was freely peeing on the kitchen floor (tile) and the front hall floor (wood). That was bad enough, but the real horror was when we discovered that other cats had started spraying all over the downstairs of the house. A black light revealed all the devastation. Nothing was off-limits…washer, dryer, refrigerator, windows, doors, furniture, etc.
We started keeping a spreadsheet called “Kitty Pee Pee Log.” Each night we combed the house with a black light, logged the incidents by location, and cleaned with Nature’s Miracle Urine Destroyer. It was not how we wanted to spend the holiday season, but we had no choice.
FYI, don’t ever call a cat “the perfect cat.” That’s just asking for trouble.
Note: I’m not paid to say anything about Nature’s Miracle Urine Destroyer. It’s just the product we have used for a few years.
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