posted 07-08-2003 04:14 PM         

At first the female used the litter box, then my husband and I went on vacation for a month and the person who was supposed to take care of the cats (in our home) ended up locking them up in the bathroom for most of the day, aparently only letting them out to eat, and didn't clean the cat box but maybe once the whole time we were gone. When we came home the whole bathroom looked like one giant cat box, ever since then the female refuses to use the cat box (we even placed a spare one in the hall to no avail) she pees/poos in the hall just outside the cat box. We've tried cleaning it with all sorts of cleaners, from baking soda, viniger, alchol, and special "smell be gone" sprays. Nothing has worked. We are at our witts end she has been doing this for well over a year and previously we loved her enough to just keep cleaning up after her, but now we have a new baby and I can't have him be around that once he starts crawling, so its either get her to stop or put her to sleep .

As if that wasn't enough the 1yr old siamease/alley cat mix pees on any towels, sheets, comforters that are anywhere he can get to them, as well as the futon. If those things aren't around he uses the cat box, and he poos in the cat box always. We have tried the furniture spray thats supposed to keep them off... just made them jump up all the more and wander around sniffing. We used all the same cleaners we used in the hall and none worked. He has been fixed since we got him at 3-4 months of age, but according to all the packages we read he is not spraying because thats a small amount and he pees a huge amount. I can't have him doing that, he peed on my son's matress/sheets. We had to buy a whole new set which is costly.

The third cat uses the bathroom just fine, but we would have to get rid of him as well if we got rid of the other two because when we took the other two to the vet a while back the whole time they were gone the orange tabby meowed like someone was swinging him around by his tail and didnt shut up except for a few min here and there when he slept, he didn't even eat the whole day and 1/2 they were gone.