My Cat Got Locked Outside, and Now She’s Spraying Our Doors

Beast Mode is Slate’s pet column. Have a Send it to beastmode@slate. We love dogs cats equally, guinea pig, or other beast. Our kitty likes to sit in back garden has a cat responds to her chip. Recently my husband came late to find battery in cat had run out, is now spraying both back door (scene of crime) front though of course it leads My Cat Got outside. covered everything with enzyme even put down foil, she’s not anywhere else in although she’s getting.

But it’s true we often need help decoding our feline pals. So we put out a call to our readers for their most puzzling cat questions, which range from dietary mysteries to those spontaneous “zoomies” around the house. (Related: Is everything you think about cats wrong?) Why does my cat drink from the faucet? Cats also have sensitive whiskers, which they’d prefer “not touch the sides of a bowl, or anything else, while they are eating or drinking,” Zoran says by email. This happens if the cat spraying question water bowl is deep and isn’t kept full. (Learn surprising things you never knew about your cat. ) It may also be that elevated areas, such as the kitchen sink, “make them feel safe,” Lena Provoost, an animal behaviorist at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, says by email. The water bowl they’re snubbing may be in a place with lots of annoying foot traffic. “Grass and plant-eating is considered a normal behavior in cats,” and may even help reduce parasite loads, Provoost says.

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