Cat using living room as toilet

[M22s]

This has been going on over 6 months and I am at the end of my tether, with my nostrils being burnt by ammonia even after using the carpet cleaner.

Cat is about 13 years old and for no apparent reason, stopped using the litter tray and poo’s and wee’s in the same part of the living room. It’s only at night as she is outside during the day but my wife thinks she is to old to be out at night (I disagree and chuck her out the window if I am last up).

So far we have tried:
- Vets - few different treatments ect and no change
- Feromone diffuser
- changing litter tray more often and different litter.
- litter tray in the place she goes.
- every night, putting down puppy pee pads (which she kicks out the way to do her business)

I am pretty sure the vet won’t put her down (which is what I would have done months ago) so it will either be rehoming or something.

Any suggestions from the PH massive before I get the shovel out the shed (joke)?

[jurbie]

Possibly another cat is coming into your garden and perhaps ambushing your cat whilst it's trying to go so your cat now just thinks it's safer to crap in the house.

We had the same problem and had to fence off a section of the garden to provide somewhere safe for him to go and it seemed to do the trick.

Everything was fine until we went on holiday for two weeks and he started all over again, and my sister who was coming over everyday to feed him, didn't have the heart to just lock him in the utility room so we think he just took advantage of her good nature. When we got back we had a couple of days of him going on the carpet until the missus caught him about to go and gave him a kick up the arse and chased him through the cat flap.

We've not had an issue since that, and sometimes you do just need to enforce a bit of discipline however hard it might be.