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I'm sorry, I couldn't think of a better title. haha And also I apologize, because this post is going to probably be very long.
My mom lives out in the middle of nowhere and animals are always getting dropped off near her road, she being an animal lover they must sense this and always come to her house. Anyway, this approx 4 month old kitten showed up about a month ago. I had lost my darling baby to old age in March and was lonely, she some how convinced me to take this white kitty. We have named him Scooter.
Now, we have 7 cats (Scooter is #7). Three stay outside, one all the time (she refuses to come inside, we make her when it rains) two stay out there only during the day. Another one stays outside on the covered porch and sleeps on the hot tub all day (and night lol). One is 16yo and sleeps all day in her spot in the bedroom. The other one is pretty active and runs around the house. And then Scooter is just a normal, playful, sweet, rambunctious kitten.
All of my litterboxes (6 boxes) are outside on a covered and screened in porch (where the hot tub is). I clean them once a day.
The day after we brought him home their was a HUGE pile of poop and pee on the futon. Eeek! We said. We thought is was one of the other cats, thinking they were mad. It was surely way too big to be a kitten. Next day it happened again. Okay, now we are getting mad. Our cats have never done this. Next day, we catch him peeing on the futon. It was Scooter the whole time! Big huge cat poops from a teeny cat. ugh.
So, now we knew who it was, and I started blocking him off onto the porch. (The porch has one of those cat doors and I can lock the door) I scoop them after every cat so I can make sure he goes outside. I go outside every so often and feel his bladder. It gets bigger and bigger... Then about 10pm when the pee/poop magically appears, I waited and watched him closely.. He didn't go. I felt his bladder, can now feel big turd (and BIG bladder). He still wouldn't go! I was getting tired, and as a last resort I put a litterbox in the bathroom with some water and a bed. I shut him in there for the night. In the morning, I checked the box, and he did use it. I thought for sure he would go on the pillow. I clean out this box constantly, I can't stand the smell inside the house.
A few days go by and we decide to let him out of the bathroom for all day..he goes back to peeing and pooping on the futon!!! I don't understand why he won't use the boxes outside, and won't use the box in the bathroom unless he is shut in there and can't go anywhere else.
Why does he continue to go on the futon?!
I can't stick him outside because he's solid white (green eyes, not deaf, he's got black guard hairs on his ear), he'll get skin cancer.
I really don't want to get rid of him, he is just too sweet. And I'm also afraid of what will happen to him when someone else realizes he likes to go on furniture.
TL;DR: cat poops and pees on futon, why won't he stop?! Please help, I don't know what to do!
My mom lives out in the middle of nowhere and animals are always getting dropped off near her road, she being an animal lover they must sense this and always come to her house. Anyway, this approx 4 month old kitten showed up about a month ago. I had lost my darling baby to old age in March and was lonely, she some how convinced me to take this white kitty. We have named him Scooter.
Now, we have 7 cats (Scooter is #7). Three stay outside, one all the time (she refuses to come inside, we make her when it rains) two stay out there only during the day. Another one stays outside on the covered porch and sleeps on the hot tub all day (and night lol). One is 16yo and sleeps all day in her spot in the bedroom. The other one is pretty active and runs around the house. And then Scooter is just a normal, playful, sweet, rambunctious kitten.
All of my litterboxes (6 boxes) are outside on a covered and screened in porch (where the hot tub is). I clean them once a day.
The day after we brought him home their was a HUGE pile of poop and pee on the futon. Eeek! We said. We thought is was one of the other cats, thinking they were mad. It was surely way too big to be a kitten. Next day it happened again. Okay, now we are getting mad. Our cats have never done this. Next day, we catch him peeing on the futon. It was Scooter the whole time! Big huge cat poops from a teeny cat. ugh.
So, now we knew who it was, and I started blocking him off onto the porch. (The porch has one of those cat doors and I can lock the door) I scoop them after every cat so I can make sure he goes outside. I go outside every so often and feel his bladder. It gets bigger and bigger... Then about 10pm when the pee/poop magically appears, I waited and watched him closely.. He didn't go. I felt his bladder, can now feel big turd (and BIG bladder). He still wouldn't go! I was getting tired, and as a last resort I put a litterbox in the bathroom with some water and a bed. I shut him in there for the night. In the morning, I checked the box, and he did use it. I thought for sure he would go on the pillow. I clean out this box constantly, I can't stand the smell inside the house.
A few days go by and we decide to let him out of the bathroom for all day..he goes back to peeing and pooping on the futon!!! I don't understand why he won't use the boxes outside, and won't use the box in the bathroom unless he is shut in there and can't go anywhere else.
Why does he continue to go on the futon?!
I can't stick him outside because he's solid white (green eyes, not deaf, he's got black guard hairs on his ear), he'll get skin cancer.
I really don't want to get rid of him, he is just too sweet. And I'm also afraid of what will happen to him when someone else realizes he likes to go on furniture.
TL;DR: cat poops and pees on futon, why won't he stop?! Please help, I don't know what to do!
