I have a burmese cat 9 years old, male neuter who I have just adopted a couple of weeks ago. He uses his litter tray fine (although he explores outside he comes in to use the toilet.) He seems to have settled really well and seems very happy.

One thing though - he pees in my bed but no where else. Edit: to make this clear -no where else= no other 'wrong' places in the flat; he's happy to use his litter tray the rest of the time. (I am single). He loves being in bed with me and snuggles up under the covers purring etc so it is a happy place. But he pees on top of the sheet under the covers at some point. I'm not sure if this is when I am asleep or at another point during the day but not when I am looking and I only discovered it for the first time on Monday. When I put clean bed linen on I sprayed feliway all over the mattress and sheets. I also fed him there too. This worked for one night but I've found it's happened today too.

I guess I could lock him out of the bedroom but I don't think he'd be very happy with that. Is there another solution you can think of?

Thanks

Sounds like hes marking his scent over yours to me, you could try a litter tray in the bedroom

He may be marking his territory and, as cruel as it sounds, you need to break the habit by not allowing him access to the area in which he is spraying.

There are quite a few useful threads on here about this sort of thing so I am sure you can get some good advice.

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Thanks all. I'll have a look through some more threads too. One thing I know is that it isn't a health problem. I adopted him because he was spraying in another house!! But this was a totally different problem there. It was because he was in a house with a load of other pets that he was scared of. However he was thoroughly checked out for physical health problems.

I would say the bed is his favourite place really - at least with me in it anyway so I'm thinking he must be keen to mark this particular territory. He does use his litter tray all the rest of the time.

I shall think about keeping him out/ or putting a litter tray in the bedroom and also search through some more threads.

I had a general google and think I might have stumbled across the answer from advice from an animal behaviourist on this site

Pets' Corner : Advice: Dogs

I think in this particular case I probably need to heed this advice

so I need to keep him shut out of my bedroom. I've only had him two weeks but she was also recommending this for a kitten some people had had for only a few days. I guess I need to grit my teeth and lock him out the room and wait for the howling. I'm glad the flat above me is empty at the moment!!

It may seem cruel but it really is a case of training him into the kind of behaviour that you want. One of our neutered moggies used to spray in our conservatory but he hasn't done it for ages so fingers crossed that has sorted itself out!

Hope you get it sorted

........thanks

this is the main page of that site with a list of questions incase it's useful for anyone.

Pets' Corner : Advice: Pets behaving badly