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Hi all,
my boy Jose has been with me in my apartment for the last 4 years. He is free range all day but is closed into the laundry at night where his litter tray, food, water & bed are, the only reason he is shut away is because he scratches on our doors at night constantly or if the door is open jumps on the bed and wakes us up.
Jose is an only child since his bonded mate Abbey passed about 2 years ago, we have tried out 3 new friends with him in the past, all of which Jose turned on so since then he has been happy to bond to me and my partner (who works from home so there is always someone to give him attention on top of his 10000 toys which I rotate out)
Up until about 6 months ago Jose was very much an independent bun who would come and have a good pat session when he wanted but then would run off and retreat to under the dining room table with his toys and watch the tv. After a bit of a nasty eye infection he has had to have 3 times daily eyedrops and has had his tear ducts flushed also. During this time he became quite needy (adorably so) where he follows you around constantly, will sit in your lap whereever you are, if he cant get on your lap he will try squeeze his head under your foot or if that fails will just flop down next to your foot.
Thankfully he is now fighting fit and eye issue has cleared up and he has still kept up his attachment to my boyfriend and I, except now he has stopped using the litter tray occasionally and is constantly doing droppings on our rug and has twice urinated whilst sitting next to one of us on the lounge (and on my boyfriends lap last night). I’m thinking this may be a dominance thing even though his attitude towards us has been quite placid (though he obviously thinks he is the alpha in our house because he is constantly pushing for us to groom him in some way)
Does anyone have any suggestions on ways I could lead him back to his perfect litter trained days because our house is carpet and we are renting so if he continues to urinate on the carpet and furniture I’m going to have to restrict him to the tiled laundry permanently which I desperately dont want to do
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Hi Rach, welcome
* waves! Some quick things that come to my mind,.. esp since hes been so good, for 4 yrs… 1 – perhaps its medical? .. it really could be,.. worth a shot, of checking it out… and 2 – use a pet enzyme cleaner,, on all of the places that he has ” marked ” or used toilet on,.. heck, even if its plain vinegar and water – remove the scent markers, that he has laid down.. enzyme removers, do just that.
I’m sorry, but, that’s really the best I can say, for now… I hope your bun bun gets back to normal soon!
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