Behavioral problems in cats

So I have this giant fat cat, lets call her Suki (cos thats her name) We have put her on a diet, she gets like half the food she used to get, twice a day. And when there is no food in her bowl, this beeyotch goes mad.

She stands in front of you, looks you straight in the eye, shakes her tail, and does a giant pis.s on the floor.

I am so sick of this and to be honest, I don't know how to discipline her and try to get her to stop doing this. I know with dogs you rub their face in the mess etc, but what do you do with cats???? Can anyone help me? This cat has to stop peeing in my house or I will have to turn her into an outside cat.

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I know nothing about cats but rubbing a dogs face is it is definately not the way to go. Maybe you can get a can of coins and shake them really loud when she does it so you can get her out of that frame of mind.. get her as soon as she starts to look at you (before she pee's) this might work!!!

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Hmmm is she neutered? The only experience we had of inappropriate cat pee was when Bolly kept peeing either in the bath/sink/shower - which although it is gross at least you can wash it away quickly, then she upgraded to peeing in DH's slippers which was rather unpleasant (for him anyway) last straw was once she peed on the bed - again on DH's side It was when he was out working a lot. Long story short I took her to the vet along with a pee sample so they could rule out infection and he diagnosed that is was behavioural (sp?) anyway she went on kitty prozac for a while and bingo no more soggy slippers! So I would take her to vet with a wee wee sample and see what they say.

Oh - she doesn't do it anymore and hasn't been on the prozac for about 2 years and didn't do it when we had Nathan or when we got the new kitten

Message edited 6/5/2008 7:13:00 PM.

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Before resorting to drugs, you can hire a behaviorist. The behaviorist may determine that your cat needs to be medicated, but you could try if you wanted. I don’t want to come across as a crazy cat lady, but I feel your pets are family. Family is work. One of my cats had behavior issues and I used a behaviorist to determine why. We did what she told us and the cat stopped the bad behavior. It took some time, and medicating her would have been the next step, but we didn’t need to do it.

This is who we used. She's in CA and I'm in NY, we just did phone consultations:
http://thecatcoach.com/
FM me if yo want more details & good luck!

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Thanks Kitty, but I probably live out of their call our zones. I don't think I could find one in the UK too easily...

She has just had a UTI, and she is now over that. Its just a sort of spiteful thing. She does it probably at least once a day, usually on the throw rug by her food. I don't necessarily think I would medicate a cat, thats a bit over the top. I know she needs some behavioural therapy....

I just have to find out what to do.