Adult male cat refuses to use the litter box, urinates on the floors and holds in waste, concerned about his health, please help!!
Tldd - my adult male cat prefers to shit on hard floor and is impossible to teach (tried training for 5 years at least). Now he's holding in urine and waste, urinates once a day on the floor despite positive environment training for both cat box and bath tub
I have a 8 year old male cat, we got him at around 2 years, he was a stray. So the issue is that for as long as we've had him hes almost refused litter boxes, he was an outdoor cat so there wasn't much issue besides waking up one morning and seeing piss or cat shit on the concrete of my basement floor. Not too big of deal just the basement right? So we've tried to litter train him since we got him but kinda gave up, he just never wanted to? Recently we moved to a house with hard flooring and no basement. 311
We used to have 3 huge cement mixing trays that we used unstead of flimsy small cat boxes, but cus of moving into a way smaller house with no basement we downgraded to 1, stupid 700$ electric cat box cus its 2023, it filters cat rocks with an unimpressive spin. It was a bitch training the other 3 to use it but they all learned and dont have a problem. With the smaller house, we've been getting accidents every day on the floors in the corner. We guessed he doesn't like the texture of the litter but we dont have the money to change that, he's watched the other cats use the litter box, we know he understands what its foor and refuses every box we've tried giving him. He wont do anything besides on flat tile and its way more concerning cus as my mood-swing family scares the hell out of him, he doesn't use the catbox or even bathtub (we've done the whole safe environment and encouragement, doesn't work.) Hes now only urinating once a day and holding in any waste.
Since theres a lot here im gonna give a list of everything we've done to train him that didn't work - small cat boxes - huge cat boxes - unscented litter - open topped cat boxes - closed topped cat boxes - electric cat boxes - the fucking bathtub without litter - positive calm training - seeing other cats use the catbox - having other cats scent - having no other cats scent - hormone spray
We need him to at least use the bathtub, im worried because he's holding in waste and i dont want my home ruined 311