"Amy" wrote in message
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For the past few months, it seems that periodically, one of my cats would
urinate right outside of the litter box. I managed to catch this happening
once - she would go inside the litter box, and stand right by the edge and
urinate, resulting in puddles right outside of the box.

My cat does the same thing. It drives me absolutely nuts. This is a litany
of some of the solutions I've tried, but none work for long. We tried
uncovering his covered box. Nope. We tried putting a second open litter box
right in front of his regular covered box. Works sometimes, but he pees in
one and poops in the covered box, and still pees outside the box fairly
regularly.Change the boxes every single time he uses them, sometimes 4 or 5
times a day. Still doesn't care...he pees out of the box. Tried Simple
Solution, Feliway, and Natures Miracle. All sort of work, but not really.
The only thing that has reliably worked is to put tin foil down in front of
the litter boxes where he pees. He will not walk on tin foil, so he HAS to
get his butt into the litter box. Looks horrible, but with Feliway and 2
litter boxes in a row, and a mixture of S'WheatScoop and TidyCat (he likes
the mixture but doesn't like either alone and won't use the box at all) he
is pretty reliable and will only have an 'accident' if he's feeling
particularly miffed at us.

I have NO clue as to why my cat does this, and I've tried literally
everything anyone has ever suggested (obviously) and he still does it. I
don't get why he doesn't understand that if he puts his tushy outside the
box, he's not peeing in it, but he doesn't. And he digs and digs and digs
trying to bury it in the tile floor. He's not that bright, poor thing.

Marjorie