why do cats smell so good and dogs smell so bad?

[renaeden]

They do mount eachother and bite the necks. The two oldest ones. The youngest one tries to avoid getting raped, but sometimes he isn't fast enough.

Interesting. I say that because both our cats are sterilised yet Liam still tries to mount Molly and he bites (well tries to) her on the neck. She has no clue about what he is doing and they usually end up smacking each other around a bit.

["couldbecousin"]

They do mount eachother and bite the necks. The two oldest ones. The youngest one tries to avoid getting raped, but sometimes he isn't fast enough.

Interesting. I say that because both our cats are sterilised yet Liam still tries to mount Molly and he bites (well tries to) her on the neck. She has no clue about what he is doing and they usually end up smacking each other around a bit.

  My former landlady said the mounting stuff is often just intended to establish an alpha.


   She also had a very large dog, neutered, who would still try to mate with female dogs
   because he remembered how. 

[renaeden]

Well Liam was a tom for the first two years of his life (his owner was slack and didn't sterilise him) so I think he got a fair bit of action. He looked awful when he came to us - dirty, chunks of fur missing and very thin. That changed within a few months and I couldn't blame him for choosing to stay with us.

[Charlotte Quin]

One of my cats smells ok and the other one smells terrible. He's not toilet trained enough so he gets pee on his backside fur.

[renaeden]

Usually the mother cat teaches the kittens.

[Charlotte Quin]

Yeah I dunno what's going on. He was 10 weeks old when I got him and he was in a family of cats (3 adults and 7 kittens) so he should have learned.
Whenever I clean his litter tray the crystals are still glowing white, meaning he doesn't pee in there (he does poos in there though). He pees on the laundry tiles beside the tray, which I constantly have to mop up with enzyme detergent. Frankly I'm ashamed of owning him sometimes 

[renaeden]

It is similar with Molly who is now 11. In an open litter tray she hangs her bum over the edge of it and poos on the floor. Every time. Peeing, she's fine. So we bought a covered tray. Liam will go in it (as well as the bath) but Molly won't, most likely because Liam's smell is in there. So she has to go outside. It's the only solution. Luckily we have sand in the backyard.

Maybe you can catch him peeing and quickly drop him into the tray?

['andersom']

Maybe a top entry litterbox will help.

[renaeden]

Maybe a top entry litterbox will help.

I want to get one of those so Liam doesn't spray the wall next to the litter tray. Really, I would rather he just peed in the bath like he does sometimes because that's so easy to clean afterwards, just run the water.

And now we have a new girl kitten. Kayleigh named her Kira. At first she was pooing in the lounge room on the mat (it's a big mat that almost covers the whole lounge room) and it made me gag to clean it up. We got sick of getting up to that every morning so Kayleigh came up with blocking the gap between the lounge room and the dining room with her large storage crates every night. So far this has worked.