Early spay and nuter is a must! Even females will spray!
It will take a while for the hormones to get out of his system after you fix him. fixing a male will most always fix the problem, even in established studs who have sprayed and been bred for years! they often can be fixed and placed as loving pets who don't spray.
Fixed males can live amoung females and not spray because they lack the hormones or "mojo" that would trigger the need or desire to mark. Some call it de-sexing, because thats exactly what your doing to the cat, your taking the sex away, the hormones. when done at an early age the makes tend to stay smaller and not devlop the typical "male" issues, and the females also don't devlope the typical "female" issues... cysts, attitude's that come with ther hormones, infections in the uterus, incessent cat calling! LOL
You really have to examin what your cat is doing... is he spraying/marking or simply peeing??
Have you seen him do this???
Peeing outside the box is a big red flag that something is wrong... it can be a UTI which males are very prone to, especially if they eat an only dry food diet! Or it could be a s igh of something else... your vet can test the urin and find out, its simple.
If its marking and the spay dosent stop it... Prozac will curb it... you don't need it forever... its used with studs quite often... and the transistion from stud to pet... using the prozac can stop the spraying and once its stopped for a while discontinue the prozac and the spraying shouldn't return as you will have stoped the cycle and the hormones will be long gone from the system.
Keep us posted on how it goes!!!
But seriously, check for a UTI... if its just peeing.
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