Lovely morning chit chat thread - April 2026

Hiya Stella, what a relief for Lilly and Faith . His new photo is very regal. He truly is a beautiful cat, no wonder you love him so much. 

Hope all of you on this thread will have a peaceful and nice Bank Holiday Weekend. Love and a hug from 

Angie and Lilly xxx 

Winston was supposed to be a show cat but he is too clingy to cope to be in a room on his own. He is a very sweet boy and quite cuddly too. If only he stops peeing on the sofa! 

Have a good week everyone x

Winston is a beautiful boy.  I wonder why he pees on the sofa.  I inherited a cat once , he was left behind when the people moved.  He always peed down the plughole of the bath?

Lee x

Some cats pee on things when they are stressed or anxious. I suspect Winston is one of those cats. It's annoying to be sure. 

 Stella2020 my first surgery left me with 2 ostomies and I was super paranoid about leaking on the bed or furniture. I found some large cloth pads on Amazon (set of 5) like they use in hospitals. These can be laid out to protect the sofa and simply washed if they become soiled. It might help you. 

Hi Susan and Lee

I think Winston is quite a sensitive cat and prone to anxiety. Luckily he seems to only pee on the leather sofa so not too difficult to clean up. He also pees on soft fabrics such as laundry baskets and duvet covers . One Christmas Day morning, he peed on the bed so we have to wash and dry the whole bedding include the duvet! 

I wasn’t going to read this post nor reply but we have a curiously weird cat with a magnificent problem, not a nasty smelly one.

This particular trait is hard to believe but after plucking up courage to read the post, I realise I could have the opposite issue and have a good cat.

He’s a feisty bugger and was called Stormy when we saved him from the cats protection, Stormy, a very apt name. He would scratch  you as soon as look at you. But you get these cats and live with them whatever their faults.

The first time it happened we thought it was odd. The second third and each time from them has confirmed this trait.

Accidentally, on the first occasion, we went out and locked him in the house. He has cat flaps to let him into the double garage and the conservatory, but not the house.

It was winter and no windows were open but we certainly needed them open when we got home because of the smell. Oh crap! He’s crapped in the house somewhere. We both had a quick look around the hallway kitchen and lounge but nothing was found, till we looked in the loo. The downstairs loo had a patch of smelly disgusting diarrhoea on the floor tiles beside the toilet pan. It was easy to clean and in effect, just the right place to have a crap. Good cat we thought.

We thought no more of it till it happened again, and again. We have a very strange cat. Upstairs or downstairs he has used the bathroom or toilet tiled floor each time, never on the carpets upstairs nor the wooden floor downstairs.

So after hearing all about your horror cats, I’ve decided to rename our cat Saint Stormy because of his kindness towards us humans cleaning up his mess and not damaging any soft furniture in the home.

Hooray for St Stormy.