my local shelter got a call about a month ago from a woman who has a 3 year old neutered male meezer and he was peeing in all the wrong places.
They gave her my name/number cause I'm their Siamese Rescue contact person. Even though they are no-kill they understand the personality of meezers and how poorly they do in shelters - so they pass them to me. This lady didn't necessarily want to give up her cat - she needed help. so I posted in the rescue foster board and got her some really good advice.
Didn't work
So she emailed me earlier this week as she'd made her decision she simply couldn't cope w/his peeing habits. She also has 2 dogs, an older cat and a younger cat. Problem started last summer when her college son came home w/a kitten. I think her meezer got jealous and once he started exhibiting his behavior he didn't know how to shut the faucet off. The other cats he had lived with for some time even set him off.
So we got her meezer on what is called the SiamList. Rescue wouldn't take him cause his peeing behavior had gone on much too long - he would have been tough to foster out and cats with long-term bad litterbox behaviors are tough to adopt out (we are honest about why a cat is given up).
I offered to be her go-between on the SiamList as she spends a lot of time caring for her infirm mother and didn't think she could deal with the aspect of giving of her cat.
Her last resort has been the possibility of having him put down. She knew he would waste away in a shelter - even a no-kill where he could wait months to be adopted or be brought back. No rescue is going to take him as he is considered a tough to adopt.
To the rescue, hopefully, a couple with no cats only a dog. And this particular cat adores dogs - even puts his front paws up on her dogs so he can give them headbutts.
The potential new person has been told about his peeing issues and they have had siamese for years and their past one passed away 2 years ago.
I gave them some hints to help the cat adjust (hope they work).
Please keep your fingers crossed. I'm so excited about maybe being able to help out this lady and keep her from having to do something she truly doesn't want to do - and hopefully her cat will be able to live in a less stessful (for him) environment and keep his pee confined to a litterbox.