Amanda Morgan
Savannah Teenager
Hello fellow Savannah Cat Chatters...
I have a 3 year old s5 boy named Zephyr who just recently started a new bathroom habit...
Not too long ago we introduced him to a new buddy that he didn't take too well to... they were together for a good 8 months or longer and I had some bathroom issues with him (peeing outside of the box etc.) During that time I turned an old storage box into their new bathroom. The walls of the box were way too high from him to pee outside of. That seemed to solve the problem. In the beginning of the introduction stage, he was very stressed and seemed to only tolerate his new friend. After time passed they would play together and sometimes during the night even cuddle up to one another, so everything seemed to be getting better. During the course of that introduction he came down with what seemed like some type of bladder infection... he couldn't stop urinating, and there were even traces of blood in his urine. We rushed him to the vet and he was put on medicine for about a week. He got better right away and the two of them continued to grow together.
In a recent relationship split, I kept Zephyr. Since the separation he is doing worlds better. His old personality has come back and he seems to be so much happier. His eating habits have improved, his mood, friendliness, and just about every aspect of his old personality has found him again. He was truly meant to be a one man show!
He is still doing strange things he never used to do when it comes to the bathroom though. He starts his urination squatting down like normal and mid urination he lifts his butt up and twitches his tail very rapidly, peeing all over the sides of his box. Has he gotten lazy in his older age? Use to "marking his territory," within his litter box (they used to share) or is this something lingering from his bladder infection where he could be in some kind of pain?
I have trained him to sit down on command, and so when I see him start to do this, I ask him to sit down like I normally would, and he looks like he is thinking about doing it, but the twitching of his tail and the raising up of his butt still continues. Maybe I should work on his with the clicker again when it comes to bathroom etiquette?
Does anyone have any ideas or seen this behavior before? Thanks so much!
-Amanda & Zephyr
I have a 3 year old s5 boy named Zephyr who just recently started a new bathroom habit...
Not too long ago we introduced him to a new buddy that he didn't take too well to... they were together for a good 8 months or longer and I had some bathroom issues with him (peeing outside of the box etc.) During that time I turned an old storage box into their new bathroom. The walls of the box were way too high from him to pee outside of. That seemed to solve the problem. In the beginning of the introduction stage, he was very stressed and seemed to only tolerate his new friend. After time passed they would play together and sometimes during the night even cuddle up to one another, so everything seemed to be getting better. During the course of that introduction he came down with what seemed like some type of bladder infection... he couldn't stop urinating, and there were even traces of blood in his urine. We rushed him to the vet and he was put on medicine for about a week. He got better right away and the two of them continued to grow together.
In a recent relationship split, I kept Zephyr. Since the separation he is doing worlds better. His old personality has come back and he seems to be so much happier. His eating habits have improved, his mood, friendliness, and just about every aspect of his old personality has found him again. He was truly meant to be a one man show!
He is still doing strange things he never used to do when it comes to the bathroom though. He starts his urination squatting down like normal and mid urination he lifts his butt up and twitches his tail very rapidly, peeing all over the sides of his box. Has he gotten lazy in his older age? Use to "marking his territory," within his litter box (they used to share) or is this something lingering from his bladder infection where he could be in some kind of pain?
I have trained him to sit down on command, and so when I see him start to do this, I ask him to sit down like I normally would, and he looks like he is thinking about doing it, but the twitching of his tail and the raising up of his butt still continues. Maybe I should work on his with the clicker again when it comes to bathroom etiquette?
Does anyone have any ideas or seen this behavior before? Thanks so much!
-Amanda & Zephyr
