When Do Male Cats Start Spraying
Neutering your cat is the most important thing you can do to curb this behavior.
When do male cats start spraying. While cats in multiple cat households are often involved in spraying behaviors cats that are housed singly may spray as well. Most cat lovers are aware that un-neutered male cats will spray urine on walls furniture and elsewhere in a hormone-fueled effort to mark their territory. Cathy Lund of City Kitty a feline-only.
While urine spraying is normal behaviour that can be performed by any cat male or female neutered or not spraying indoors may be. A male cat due to start spraying will often start calling or yowling for a mate. In older cats roughly 87 will stop.
Male cats may start spraying at around six months of age when they reach full sexual maturity. Cats start Spraying around six months of age as cats reach puberty. In most cases getting the cat neutered will help with the spraying situation.
Most male kittens usually start spraying when they reach sexual maturity which is typically around 6 months. Neutering will change the odor and may reduce the cats motivation for spraying but approximately 10 of neutered males and 5 of spayed females will continue urine spraying and marking. Male cats may urinate outside their box and practice inappropriate elimination but when they pee vertically and not on the floor or other horizontal surfaces it is referred to as spraying or marking.
But neutering your pet is no guarantee that it would not Spray. Male cats start spraying as early as four or five months old when they start to reach sexual maturity. For most cats spraying tends to start when they are 6 to 7 months old although male cats can reach maturity between 4 to 5 months.
While cats in multiple cat households are often involved in spraying behaviors cats that are housed singly may spray as well. Ideally your cat should be neutered before any hormonal changes take effect. Around 5 of neutered cats still do Spray.