Kitty ping!
I wish I could figure out what the answer is - our old alpha cat Sabrina won't cut it out. Something about the living room carpet makes her want to pee on it.
She's been checked, and as mean 12-year-old cats go, is fine healthwise - the vet has finally just declared her contumacious.
Sounds a little odd--but explain to me ( and feel free to PM me here anytime--) Do the cats have access to the OUTSIDE?? Are they / he INDOOR cat(s) ?? or both?
I have had cats, dogs, racoons, you name it--we've had it.
When they are under one year..they can be trained GREAT!--by placing a kitty box with the litter somewhere--they will almost always use it to cover their tracks--that's ancestory with all animals.
When older--it is a little harder--but if you have another cat in the house who uses a box--the one who didn't before WILL start using it just to cover the OTHER cats' smell!
Is IZZY "nuetered"?--that makes a big difference.
Remember too--Cats and Dogs are just small stupid children--that won't grow up to ask to borrow your car keys one day!
They WILL do things on spite sometimes--like peeing where they KNOW you or the owner sleeps or has a favorite place.
We had a 1 year old male--use to pee on the bed and in the corner--we got a cat box--he did use it-but not all the time--then we got another cat ( they're not M&M's--you can't stop when you get just one!)--THAT cat use to LOVE making a big deal out of going in the box--and we ( wife ) use to make all these stupid baby sounding voices like " GOOOD boy!! "--the other cat saw this and NOW uses the box so as to NOT be left out of all the attention!!
Now he does pee sometimes--but rare --in a corner--but only normally when we have to yell at him for doing something he shouldn't--like make long distance calls or tape "Animal Planet" over our un-watched Wedding video.."
But I say--after 40 years of having them--give a cat a BOX--and filled DEEP with litter--( Old Kerry speeches ripped up normally would make anyone want to piss on them!) and a BOX that is BIG ENOUGH for them to manuver in--and not feel "Trapped"--remember-cats will ONLY get into something SMALL or enclosed if THEY want to--not because YOU tell them to do something! ( sounds like my fourth wife..but that's another story about being pee-d on!! LOL)
If all this doesn't work: --the encouragement--a big cat box--giving special cat treats when he DOES go in the box--try the last stand by--go to the fridge--bring out a hot dog and show it to Tabby and say," THIS is what happened to the Dog that USE to live here who didn't listen Either!!"
If that doesn't work--I am afraid you are lost!
Chris
p.s. please don't mind my spelling here--I am retarded..at least that is what I have been told here by others...