Cat sh*tting on floor

[Mr MXT]

We've had Barry 18 months, from a kitten. For the first 12 months we lived in a London flat so he was a house cat, happily doing his business in his litter tray with no accidents.

We moved house 6 months ago and for the last few months he has been roaming outside a little, but TBH isn't that interested and only goes out for an hour or so at a time. He still has a litter tray and prefers to do his biz in that rather than go outside. Fine by us. There have been one or two errant poos, completely our fault when we have failed to keep his litter tray as clean as his royal highness would like.

We went away last week and the cat sitter failed to keep his litter tray clean. When we got back I found two sh*ts in the tray and, very annoyingly, two sh*ts on the carpet that the sitter had not seen and / or failed to clean up. Grim.

Now we are back, the tray is obviously kept clean, but darling Bazza is continuing to drop a deuce on our very expensive lounge carpet, in the exact same spot.

FWIW - he's still weeing in the tray.

Ideas how I can fix this problem please???!

[Mr MXT]

Thanks both - didn't realise you could get a spray so have ordered some. Will try that then if he persists, I'll start moving the litter tray.

[Mr MXT]

Liberal use of the spray, he didn't go for48 hours but now he's back using the tray