"jamie" wrote in message
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Mary wrote:
Forgive the pun, but this is not a ****ing contest. It isn't "Rutherford
will win or Jimmy will win." Move the box and see what happens.
I think he has either an undiagnosed medical problem or
a behavioral problem caused by something else you are
doing. Cats that do this either have medical issues OR
they are trying to tell you something is making them
very uncomfortable. There is no mystery to it, and
there is no "being an asshole" about it. Cats don't think
like people.

This reminded me of a funny incident when I was a child. My
grandmother came for a visit for the weekend, and every time Taffy
came near her, she glared at him, and said, "I don't like cats."

With all due respect to grandmother, who was the asshole first?


That evening, she unpacked her small zippered suitcase, and put the
empty suitcase, with the zipper flap open, on the floor in front of
the dresser. Taffy strolled in, squatted in the suitcase while
staring at my grandmother, and peed.

That was the only time Taffy *ever* peed outside the litterbox
his whole life, and I'm pretty sure he was being an asshole,
in retaliation.

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I do agree that they send messages with inappropriate
elimination. But I don't think Jimmy's cat is all determined
to pee whereever he wants. There is a problem, and speaking
of assholes, it started with the assholes who declawed
Rutherford then gave him up.