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* Provide additional resources around the home, including extra resting, feeding, drinking and latrine sites. These should be located so that each faction or individual cat has easy access to its own set of resources close to a location where it spends time.
* Provide additional resources around the home, including extra resting, feeding, drinking and latrine sites. These should be located so that each faction or individual cat has easy access to its own set of resources close to a location where it spends time.
* Soiled sites should be cleaned properly ''[see box and handout in the appendix]''.
* [[Urine Contamination of Property|Soiled sites should be cleaned properly.]]
* The cats should not be punished or threatened and chased when spraying, as this may increase stress or encourage the development of spraying to gain attention.
* The cats should not be punished or threatened and chased when spraying, as this may increase stress or encourage the development of spraying to gain attention.
* Strategically install F3 diffusers [Feliway]
* Strategically install F3 diffusers (Feliway)
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* Regularly clean doorways, paths and walls where non-resident cats are spray marking [scrub with a solution of biological washing powder and hose clean].
* Regularly clean doorways, paths and walls where non-resident cats are spray marking (scrub with a solution of biological washing powder and hose clean).
* Fit draft excluder around doors and frames to prevent odours from coming in, and install a weatherboard to the bottom of external doors so that urine marks do not run down the door and into the house.
* Fit draft excluder around doors and frames to prevent odours from coming in, and install a weatherboard to the bottom of external doors so that urine marks do not run down the door and into the house.
* Take off outdoor shoes and put them on a high shelf when entering the house.
* Take off outdoor shoes and put them on a high shelf when entering the house.
* Apply a squirt of F3 [Feliway, CEVA Animal Health] to bags when they are brought into the house.
* Apply a squirt of F3 (Feliway) to bags when they are brought into the house.
* Allow new furniture to air for several hours before allowing the cats access to it. This allows plastic and other odours, that may trigger spraying, to disperse. Apply F3 spray [Feliway] to the furniture regularly until cats are voluntarily face and flank marking it.
* Allow new furniture to air for several hours before allowing the cats access to it. This allows plastic and other odours, that may trigger spraying, to disperse. Apply F3 spray [Feliway] to the furniture regularly until cats are voluntarily face and flank marking it.
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