As you know from reading the information on the Feliway page (its located in the green box, upper right corner) the presence of outdoor cats is what usually sets a cat off and causes the indoor cat to spray urine. The indoor cats do this as their attempt to protect their home from the intruders. Our indoor cats see, hear, and SMELL the urine of outdoor cats.
Let’s take this one step further - literally - we are going to talk about your shoes!
When we walk our city streets we step on all sort of gross things. We’ll spare you the the tummy turning examples, but you can certainly imagine what you’ve walked on. Ths would include cat urine or flakes of feces. YUCK!
If you wear those same shoes in the house you are bringing the those threatening scents into the house, and spreading it everywhere you walk.
Here’s something you can do for the sanity of your cats, and to keep your home sparkling clean and free of disease - regularly clean the soles of your shoes.
Its easy! A basin of soapy water and an old tooth brush, plus a towel for drying is all you need. For really soiled shoes soak them in a 1/8 to 1/4 inch of soapy water to loosen the crud, then finish with your old toothbrush.
You might have all household members wear only slippers in the house, and keep shoes by the front door like the Japanese do. Its sanitary, its rather elegant, and its possibly going to solve your cat’s spraying problem.
Here’s a bit of fun trivia - Diana Vreeland to legendary editor of Vogue magazine had her maid clean her shoes. She was known to admonish Vogue staff members for wearing dirty shoes to the office!
