This cat is probably between 1 1/2 and 2 1/2 years old. She can get up on the kitchen counter in a single hop, so I don't think the 3" lip on the littler box is a problem. And like I mentioned before, she gets in it just fine to poop.

My outdoor dogs used to have run of my garage (via a doggy door) as a place to get out of the rain/cold/heat. After a while one of them started peeing and pooing on the concrete floor in various places around the garage while we were not home. I would come home from work, clean up the mess, and then hose the whole floor down with Clorox Outdoor Cleaner. The next day, the process would repeat itself.

These were dogs, so maybe they are completely different, but for me, the solution turned out to be to confine them down to an area about 8x10 (enclosed by wire kennel panels), that contained their bed and gave them access to the doggy door.

This solution worked 100%. They simply would not use an area that they had to live in to go to the bathroom. They would go out that doggy door and go outside, even in the pouring rain!

For me, I think you just have to give animals limits. Without limits, they don't KNOW what the expected behavior is. In your case, I would confine them to a particular room. Close it off somehow (more difficult with cats due to their vertical leaping capabilities). Put a climbing post, scratching post, toys, their beds, etc... in there. And put a litter box in the corner of that space. This way they will have to choose from either using their living area as a bathroom, or keeping it contained in the litter box.

Maybe not the idea pet environment that you envisioned, but it's either that or living in a zoo yourself!!

JA

you need to find a vet with a specialty in behavioral medicine

I've thought about that, but I'm apprehensive about throwing more money down this stinky, hairy hole.

thom..you are officially a better man than me.

Given thom's sometimes callousness towards the other type of puzzy, his patience with this is remarkable.

I realize that will make everyone bust out laughing... But seriously, they make diapers for cats.

They are completely ridiculous, but about 900 million times better than cat urine in your house/laptop case, etc...

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angela

How many cats do you have again at the moment? (no fair using the calculator)
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1353366922.jpg

3 indoor cats:

• Kerouac, tabby, 18 y/o, sleeps all day, just running out the clock
• Emma, siamese, 2 y/o
• Ghia, persian, 2 y/o? <--- problem child, newest of the bunch

There's also 5 outdoor cats (aka "strays") that we feed on a regular basis. They don't come into the house except for 2 of them that will bumrush the front door when one of us gets home from work, and then run straight to the door to the garage, because they know that's where the food is.

Amen!
 

Amen!!

Two is enough for me:
"Feed me, open the door for me, play with me, run the sink for a while so i can play with the water, open the door for me, hang me upside down and scratch the belly and make me purr, open the door for me, stop whatever you're doing and pay attention etc, etc."

Not to delve too much personally, but you've got a lot on the plate.
New spouse, new house, rebuilding, job, plus side projects=A lot of changes.
BTDT. It sucked.
You both are busy, and driven, and need to stay focused.

Lose the broken anchor.
Get a carpet cleaner and start fresh.

somebody use photoshop to take out 'free' and put in 'to pee'

It's not medical issue, it's a behavioral one. Had cats all my life, if that happened here it would be a permanent outdoor cat or back to the shelter.

Just an update: things are getting interesting. My wife has spent hours researching cat behavior on the web and tried various things, to no avail. The cat now not only pees on the bathroom carpet, but poops in the tub as well, which I'd consider a regression.

My wife seems to have accepted the fact that the cat is broken and needs to be dealt with. I stopped cleaning up the messes, basically telling her that I clean things up when my cars leak oil, so...

My wife's #1 theory right now is that the other slightly older cat is 'terrorizing' the problem cat when she tries to get to the litter box. This is true to some extent - she loves to stalk the other cats on the way to the box. The older cat doesn't GAFF and ignores her, while the problem cat will turn tail and run when she realizes she's being followed. On a couple of occasions I've seen her then pee on the rug or poop in the tub, so there seems to be some correlation.

But that's not even the interesting part. She's retained the services of a "cat behaviorist" - @ $175 a hour. I don't know that human therapists charge that much; mine charges me by the pint.

That sucks. If you get rid of the "problem" cat, the terrorist wins.

True and very funny.

I've heard there should be a litter box for each cat. The other may be attacking it because house rules are getting broken.
Mine would rather drink bird fountain water than use the slobbery dog dish. They are fickle about their "own space".

Maybe isolate it in a room for a while and train it to use that one.