My boyfriends mom and sister have the family cat at their house, and they're hardly ever home so she doesn't get the attention/maintanence a long haired cat should get. Needless to say, she's got a few mats on her. One under each ear, one right above her tail, and one on each side of her tail.

Now they don't really have enough money to get her shaved. (Don't ask me why they can't put aside $45 for her health, it's a mystery to me.) I'm to the point where I want to put out the money and time to go get her shaved and all taken care of. Hopefully I can do this soon, but in the meantime I have a couple questions.

She's been urinating on a couch that's set up in the spare bedroom, and quite alot. I've read that this is a sympton of kidney disease (I think). I tried telling them about this and how it is very dangerous for it to go untreated, and they haven't done anything. Maybe it's not the kidneys, is it possible that the dreads could be causing her to urinate in a place she knows she's not supposed to? I was thinking she's feeling so much pain from the dreads that some days it's not worth it to her to walk across the house. So she goes on the couch.

She's about 13 y/o, if that helps at all. Thanks for the help!