Cat weeing - not in litter

[febrezeme]

Hi so I have a 10 year old male cat owned since a kitten. For the last few weeks he has started wee ing outside of the litter tray - the litter trays are the same ones in the same location and same litter as the last 10 years. I have 3 young children and I had thought they were perhaps too noisy and boisterous for him and that was putting him off coming downstairs to use the litter and that's why he has been weeing (mainly on the twins beds!)
It's not every day. Maybe once per week or 10 days and seems to coincide with when the kids were home

But today it's just me home - house is quiet I've fixed the kids bed door so it shuts properly so he can't get in there to wee and washed all the beds, mattresses with special wee and febrezed the shit out of the room!

So he has wee'd on a pile of clothes that were on the floor in the bathroom

Admittedly he came downstairs for a bit and was clearly pissed that I didn't feed him - I was in a meeting - he could have used the litter but he has deliberately gone upstairs to do it??

I'm at a loss what to do and I'm worn down with constantly worrying about shutting doors and where he is and the constant washing of mattresses duvets and the bloody smell!!

Should I just put a small litter tray in the bathroom?

Slightly different issue to the OP, but hoping someone may have some advice or suggestions!
My 3 year old female cat poos outside the litter tray. She's been doing this on & off since we got her as a kitten.
She's poo'd in various different places. Bathroom, bedroom, back room, randomly on a stair... The litter can be brand new & she'll still go on the floor.
We've tried different litter, a number of litters, in different places.
Tried spot on calmers & plug in calmers.
She's been checked by the vet & is fine.
We have 2 cats, the problem one & her sister.
2 adults & 2 kids in the household.

Grateful for any help.

So update this morning and can't decide whether to silently congratulate myself 😂

Putting cat out after eating a couple of times a day has been successful the last couple of days - can't say he has been happy about it as he's a big lazy boy and is mostly an indoor cat these days

Today it's raining and miserable - put him out for 30 mins or so and let him back in

Come downstairs to find him perched over the kitchen sink - the little sink next to the big one whatever that is called - happily weeing

I have noticed that when he wees - inside or out - he's always preferred to perch on something - like on the sleepers which are a bit higher than the grass/flower beds

He also has a vet appointment tomorrow anyway to rule anything more serious out

I’d probably post your issue as a separate thread to get more replies but I’ve had two female cats do this. One, since she was a kitten (and didn’t come to live with me till she was 6) so no chance of changing her ways. The second started to copy her 🙄

First cat died, the second cat is now elderly and arthritic and has had a few peeing over the top of the litter tray accidents then a peeing on the floor incident. I was concerned that she was finding it hard to get into the litter tray so I’ve bought a large potting tray and put it down without any litter.

She is now happily using that for wees and poos so I think that she doesn’t like the litter under her paws when she is straining to poo or maybe she feels like she might slip?

I second PP's recommendations to have DCat checked by vet. Cats are crafty beggars and it's very difficult for us hoomans to know when they are poorly as they hide it so well.

@catname I did post separately recently but only had one reply. 🤷🏼‍♀️