Not to rain on your parade, but I bought this (Dr. Elsey's) by accident a few months ago, and my cat was PISSED... gave me the dirtiest look, like "Ewww! What kind of nasty crap is THIS???"

Accident... pissed... crap... I crack myself up LOL!

 

I had a cat that also taken from her mother too soon and did pee outside of the litterbox on occasion. I bought this litter hoping it would help. It did not help at all. She started peeing on my couch after this and even when I switched back to the old litter she continued to do it. I ended up giving the cat to a family member that could handle it better than me.

 

Throwing this out there with the disclaimer that I don't have cats -
For the ferrets, they lack the instinct to use a litter box so I actually reinforce good litterbox usage with treats. Could training by you like that possibly help replace the instruction she would have gotten from Momma?

 

It's worth a try. I've used it before with some success. More successfully, we treated the cat with the problems with amitryptylene - a form of kitty anti-anxiety drugs. That worked fantastically. One of my other solutions was to buy a mat (specifically this one, which is the only one that worked: Grreat Choice&#153 Large Litter Mat - Scoops & Mats - Litter Boxes & Accessories - PetSmart). My cat would always go in a particular place. I put this mat down, and she still peed on it but it won't soak through to the floor. I had three of them and would just clean the dirty one every few days.

I've also had success "re-training" a kitty by putting them in a crate with just their box and clip on food/water dishes. Starting with no bed or anything, so they basically have to use the box so they won't be sitting in pee. Once they are 100% reliable, add in a bed. Then, give them one room to be in and see if they can handle that.

If you have multiple cats you may need a LOT of boxes. We have 6 cats, and we have 6 litter boxes, one of which is automatic and ALWAYS clean (I highly recommend this - worth the price: Automatic Self Cleaning Litter Box Litter-Robot. None of the other auto boxes worked for very long in our house. This one is 5 years old and going strong.) Some cats need a clean box literally every time, which is why we have the auto box. Some want a separate place to pee and to poop. Some won't use a box another cat has used. The more boxes you have, the better your chances that the problem cat will use it.

Believe me, I feel your pain. Our behaviorally challenged kitty did that for about 8 years.

 

Anti-Anxiety Meds

More successfully, we treated the cat with the problems with amitryptylene - a form of kitty anti-anxiety drugs. That worked fantastically.

I have not tried anti-anxeity meds. I did try Feliway and didn't notice any improvement.

 

It's worth a try. I tried it once. But I'm impatient and as usual I did a few things at once so don't know what worked. Thankfully the one cat that occasionally doesn't use the box will use the tub (which is easy to clean). In her case, I found moving the boxes around to give her more privacy from the other cat seemed to work. I did this the same time I added the cat attract litter though. So not sure which one really resolved it.

 

Privacy

In her case, I found moving the boxes around to give her more privacy from the other cat seemed to work. I did this the same time I added the cat attract litter though. So not sure which one really resolved it.

In the past my one male cat would hide and pounce on her when she'd leave the litterbox, which had hoods on them at the time. She stopped using the litterbox. I took the hoods off, the male stopped pouncing, and she seemed to start using the litterboxes again. But of course this was short lived - as has been everything else I've tried.

I would love to give her a private section of the house by herself with her own litterbox, but the area I'm living in in the basement of my parents' house is one big open space, so I can't segregate her. I'm not allowed to take over another room in their part of the house to try this experiment, so it's going to have to wait until I buy my own place this time next year.

 

It might be worth it to try the Litter Robot for you. We tried almost every auto box on the market and they were always failures. They all basically used a "rake" to scoop clumps and they always broke. The Litter Robot works totally differently and has held up to six cats for 5 years. It is cleaned after every use, unless a cat re-enters within 10 minutes. But if that's the kitty's problem it might really help for you.

 

I only have the one cat, but I've been told that there should be one more litter box than there are cats. I think that could be a challenge in your limited space, but I'd sure give it a try if I were in your situation with the kitty.

We ended up making Phat Cat a larger litter box (cuz he's a big cat and sometimes...well...um...overshoots his goal, so to speak) as shown if you scroll down on this page: The Litter Box From Your Cat's Point of View by Lisa A. Pierson, DVM :: Litter box management, types of cat litter, feline house soiling, inappropriate elimination

 

I can't offer a solution to this one but a friend has a cat with a similar problem. This cat perches on a giant litter box (described as big enough for Elsa the lioness) but always misses and pees on the floor

 

The problem continues. I did seem to have success by confining her to an xpen for a while and then letting her loose. However, with this latest attempt she is even peeing outside the litter box in the xpen. She's never done that before. Between the pee and near constant screaming, I can't take it anymore. I'll take her to the vet, but I don't know that they'll have any solution.

 

I would consider anxiety medication for the cat at this point. That can be a solution in this sort of situation, and, since it seems like you've tried a lot of things and are reaching the end of your tolerance, it may be worth trying.

 

I freaking LOVE Cat Attract. It worked for my cats. Their litterbox behaviors weren't terrible, but a few years ago I went on vacation for a week and my husband "forgot" to clean the litterboxes.... and all of a sudden the cats were peeing where they shouldn't have been peeing.

One bag of Cat Attract fixed it.