It started about 3 weeks ago. She decided to find some alternatives to the litter box. First it was dirty clothes on the floor, so I made sure to keep those picked up. Then she decided to broaden her horizons to my bed. I assure you, doing laundry at 4am when you want to be sleeping is not fun, especially when they just jacked up the price on the washers and dryers to $1.25, which just so happened to be $.25 more than I had in quarters, and of course there were no change machines. But I digress. The next day she did it again. The day after, I watched her like a hawk. When she went in the bedroom, I went in the bedroom and used my laptop, otherwise I watched her from my desktop. Any time I left the house, I shut her in the bathroom. That night I plopped into my bed confident that there was no way she could have possibly peed on it, and my thought process pretty much went like, "OH, YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME." Late night laundry again. She's a freaking urine ninja. One night she even escaped her bathroom imprisonment and left her mark by the cover of darkness.
Aside from her newly developed stealth urinating abilities, she's also learned to meow at the top of her lungs. And the bottom of her lungs. And well beyond the lung capacity you could possibly fathom an 8 pound cat containing. All at the same time. Sometimes it's a low mrow. Sometimes it's a loud shriek like you might expect to hear from a kid being run over by a drunk icecream truck driver. Sometimes it sounds like a bullfrog swallowed a goose. It's always loud. So, after my long overdue slumber is postponed another two hours for the bed cleaning ritual, I'm still not allowed to sleep because an air raid siren makes less noise than this cat. I actually have a recording that I might be able to post. She goes nuts when I play it back, running around looking for the source.
On top of all that, I can't pet anywhere near her hind end without that half of her body losing control. She basically flattens down, sticks her tail up in the air, and does this funny waddle thing. It's kind of funny because she can't walk away from it even if she wants to. She has to waddle her way out of your reach, and even once she's free, she looks like she's part of the Ministry of Silly Walks, or perhaps rode one of those spinning rides at the amusement park for the first time. She's also been extremely "rubby". She's rubbing up against anything and everything -- considerably more so than cats normally do.
The catch is, she was already spayed a year ago. I took her into the vet, but the people there steadfastly denied the possibility that she could be in heat after being spayed. Naturally she was so freaked out by the whole vet visit that she didn't exhibit any of her normal abnormal behaviors, so that whole trip ended up being a waste of time, money, and skin.
I'm kind of at a loss as to what to do here, but I need to do something. Do I try to get her spayed again (at a different vet)? She actually went through this one other time a few months ago and eventually returned to "normal". She never peed on my bed, though, and it seems to be lasting longer this time.
Edit: Changed "nuts" to "crazy" because the non-sexual use of the word "nuts" is apparently foreign to some people.
Aside from her newly developed stealth urinating abilities, she's also learned to meow at the top of her lungs. And the bottom of her lungs. And well beyond the lung capacity you could possibly fathom an 8 pound cat containing. All at the same time. Sometimes it's a low mrow. Sometimes it's a loud shriek like you might expect to hear from a kid being run over by a drunk icecream truck driver. Sometimes it sounds like a bullfrog swallowed a goose. It's always loud. So, after my long overdue slumber is postponed another two hours for the bed cleaning ritual, I'm still not allowed to sleep because an air raid siren makes less noise than this cat. I actually have a recording that I might be able to post. She goes nuts when I play it back, running around looking for the source.
On top of all that, I can't pet anywhere near her hind end without that half of her body losing control. She basically flattens down, sticks her tail up in the air, and does this funny waddle thing. It's kind of funny because she can't walk away from it even if she wants to. She has to waddle her way out of your reach, and even once she's free, she looks like she's part of the Ministry of Silly Walks, or perhaps rode one of those spinning rides at the amusement park for the first time. She's also been extremely "rubby". She's rubbing up against anything and everything -- considerably more so than cats normally do.
The catch is, she was already spayed a year ago. I took her into the vet, but the people there steadfastly denied the possibility that she could be in heat after being spayed. Naturally she was so freaked out by the whole vet visit that she didn't exhibit any of her normal abnormal behaviors, so that whole trip ended up being a waste of time, money, and skin.
I'm kind of at a loss as to what to do here, but I need to do something. Do I try to get her spayed again (at a different vet)? She actually went through this one other time a few months ago and eventually returned to "normal". She never peed on my bed, though, and it seems to be lasting longer this time.
Edit: Changed "nuts" to "crazy" because the non-sexual use of the word "nuts" is apparently foreign to some people.