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So my husband and I just adopted a second cat yesterday. The one you see is our resident cat, Domino and he’s about 16 months. Our new kitty, Thalya, is 3 months old. Yesterday when we brought her home we had to give her a shower, poor thing threw up in the car and pooped in the carrier. After her shower, we showed Domino to her and they were sniffing each other’s noses. Then about a couple minutes in Domino and Thayla hissed at each other. This was the first time ever Domino hissed at anyone/anything. Then towards my bed time Domino was meowing like crazy and wanted into the room Thayla was in. We had let him in, more like he snuck in, and was sniffing Thayla’s stuff. No hissing until he saw her. So we separated them again and we went bed.

This morning when I woke up. I saw Domino sitting next to the door where Thayla is. There was no hissing. So I went into the bathroom there Thayla was all over me and sitting on my lap while I was taking a shit. When I went back and laid down I saw this (the video above) happen. My friend who has 7 cats said they’re just playing but Domino will every so often hiss at Thayla and I’m just worried they’re not getting along. Any advice is appreciate!

My partner and I just adopted my first cat about 3 months ago. She is my absolute world and I love her so much.

Since about a month in she has been peeing outside of her litter tray and on our beds (we have our bed and a spare bed). We took her to the vet and they said that she had cystitis which they thought was stress related due to having just been rehomed. We got her some pain medication and followed the vets advice with getting another litter tray, getting her more hydrated, and using feliway to help with her anxiety.

This seemed to help for a little while, but she then started peeing on our beds shortly after, to the point where we felt like we had to close our bedroom doors when we were out of the house as we couldn’t handle the amount of cleaning up and washing (and the expense in buying so much enzyme cleaner), which made me feel horrible. We did another urine sample and it came back completely normal, so it wasn’t a cystitis issue this time as far as we are aware.

I found online that if you feed cats treats etc on a bed, then they associate that area with eating and playing and so won’t pee on it. However, she’s peed on our bed tonight, and it feels like we’re back to square one again. I feel so hopeless with this and I’m worried something behavioural is going on and I want to help her.

Has this happened to anyone before? Does anyone have any advice for how it stopped?

Thank you so much for any help you can give.

are my cats getting along?

Cat peeing on the bed