Sorry, no suggestions for the potty problem inside, but for the water bowl...have you tried to use a rabbit water bottle? The ones with the metal tip and ball that hangs upsidedown? I had a friend that bred "squshed faced kitties" and she used the rabbit water bottles. She also had a kitty door built into the wall connected to covered, enclosed dog run with pea (ha ha) gravel and sand. The kitties would "go" outside and she didnt have a litterbox inside.

I have no suggestions, just sympathy with you. One of our kitties has been using a puppy pad for years. Sometimes she will use the litter box, sometimes the puppy pad. Luckily, she only peas on the puppy pad so for. She is old and so darn sweet and loving, that we just deal with it. The grandkids adore this cat and wool her to pieces but she doesn't seem to mind. She even kind of grieves when our granddaughter leaves. Lexi and the kitty seem to have a special bond.

Oh gosh, what a dilemna. I feel for you. I have 3 indoor cats, 1 of them almost 16. She is having lots of problems now (health issues) which I have to constantly clean up. Its not fun. I deal with it by laying paper towels on the floor under the boxes, use the plastic box liners and then lay kleenexes draped over the sides of the boxes. That way I can just pick up the kleenex that is soaked with pee or poop. She can't seem to get it to go IN the box. I love my animals dearly, but I gotta admit...they just are NOT meant to live inside houses. Best of luck to you with your sweet girl.

Yes, animals are CERTAINLY a lot of work! I started the 'good reinforcement' last night with Boo. She was insisting on trying to jump up on our lap when we had snacks on the couch and we didn't let her, then deliberately went to a corner and I knew what she was up to. I scooped her up, took her to her room, and she peed & I gave her a treat. I feel like I'm playing mind games with this poor thing. I REALLY hope she gets it!

I agree with this one.....ironically, thankfully, our cats preferred the cheap brand!!!! It's hard when you've fallen in love with them and they start doing things like this. Good luck!

The vets will tell you it is probablya urinary tract infection or a bladder infection, I have a cat that stays out in warm weather but I bring her in when it gets cold, I have to put newspaper around the box because she will pooh in the box but goes pee on the paper, we had to put her outside because of bad habits but since we brought her in this winter she has contained it to aroun the box

We had a Persian stray who did this after using the litter box for years. We always thought she was a little "Off" in the head from having been a stray. Couldn't cure her bad habits, and had to put her down. It's a terrible choice to make, but sometimes the only alternative. Can she be an outside cat?

You have all my sympathy. We adopted a barn kitty from a friend. She was just an orange tabby we named Katisha. She bonded very well with our family which was surprising as we had three othe cats at the time. The other cats were used to gettnig new brothers or sisiters and didn't take offense at a new cat in the family. At two years old, Katisha started peeing all over the house including in front of us. And the other cats all just stayed out of her way. We had the vet check her out and found she had a heart condition where the inside of her heart was still growing but the outside stayed the same size (I forget what he called it). Vet said the blood flow was not consistant enought for her to get around. Katisha lived to be 5 years old and at the last could barely move to get around at the end. We had to put her to sleep in my arms. When we were house training her, I put hay and bits of dirt in the litter box so she would know where to go. May be this will help you also. Good luck, Boo sounds like a cutie.

My female, Emmy, likes to poop outside the box. Once in while she will poo in the box, but most of the time it's beside the box, on the kitchen run, or kitchen floor. The vet told me it's a behavior issue. Duh, I knew that, but how do I change her behavior. Recently I've tried unsented litter, the first day she went in her box and I got excited thinking that was the answer. Well, next day it's outside the box. I tried cleaning the box first thing in the morning and last thing at night. My next change is going to be a bigger, clear, plastic box. Reggie doesn't have any issues, he even buries Emmy's lumps.
My daughter has a male kitty that pees at random outside of his box usually when he thinks he's being ingored.

I love my kitty babies, but I don't want to be cleaning up poop for the rest of her life, she's 6.

Is she an indoor cat now? Perhaps she is mad because she likes being outside.