Reprieve

So I took the little cat in yesterday, amongst a deluge of family tears. The plan was that we were going to have to have him euthanized. Having both a serious behavioral problem is not enough, but the double whammy of being blind makes one think that no one is going to adopt him- and he would end up being put down anyways... But then he would be alone and confused and never know why we abandoned him to a life in a cage for a month... It was heart wrenching, and a decision we agonized over for a long time.

He is back home again. The doc pleaded me into giving the stray facility 2 weeks to find a place for him. The lady who runs said facility thinks she will be able to find a home for him, given his very sweet personality and the fact that is is great with kids. Ultimately, I would like to find a way to fix the behavioral problem, and keep him myself. She thinks that the behavioral problem might be minor, and if he is the lone cat in a home he might be okay. She would just have to make ultrasure it wouldn't be a family of shits who would let the little blind guy outside, or ignore his special needs- like walking loud, announcing your presence to him, paying lots of attention to him, or keeping the furniture in one place.

So, in the mean time I am back on the investigation trail of trial and error to find a fix for his litter-box aversion problem. Even the vet said, when I explained to her the things he does, that it is bizarre. He craps in the box like a normal cat- but pees in front of it. The sand is good enough to shit in but not piss in? And he doesn't do it all the time. If any cat owners happen by here and have suggestions, let me know...

What we have tried- Aversions- "keep off" spray, moving his food to the bad pee place, tin foil, citrus scents, scaring him out of the bad place...
I also spent oodles on this shit called "Cat attract"- it smells like hot feed for horses- the concept being it smells more like the natural stuff cats like to shit in.
He has a litter-maid box, a great big one, so it is always clean. We had several boxes in the house at one time, and he chose to pee in front of just the one, so we got rid of them. We have locked him in the room with his box and food, etc for days- and he would use the box until we let him out...

Usually cats with aversion do ALL their business outside the box, and all the time. Not him. He has to be a fucking weirdo and baffle the shit out of us... any ideas would be seriously considered... C'mon folks we are trying to save his life here.