My parents' cat is an indoor female 12 y/o fixed Himalayan Sealpoint. They've had her for about ten years now and she's quite people-shy, especially of children, though recently she has even begun to aproach my 6y/o son (who, I promise, is quiet and gentle with her!) for attention. Which is unusual enough in itself.
Recently she has been urinating in innapropriate places, especially in the spare room where her litterbox is. My parents have taken to covering the spare bed with a shower curtain liner to protect the bed. She has been treated multiple times in the last few months for urinary tract infections and was just in to the vet last week for her shots and a clean bill of health.
My parents changed her brand of litter to the Arm & Hammer one last week and she seems to love it. So much so that she will sleep in the litterbox and urinate on the plastic covered bed more often. She was urinating on the bed before, so really this new litter has just provided her with a new place to nap. She isn't sleeping on her own feces or anything as this is a clumpable and my parents always scoop as soon as she's used it. But still, the same box.
There have been male cats hanging around outside my parents' trailer and they are worried that might be upsetting her.
We're at a loss as to what is actually wrong with her. Has anyone else had the same sort of problem?