Young cat partial to a box pee

[RatatatCat]

We rescued our male, neutered kitten in March, he is now around 9 months old. Very, very social, inquisitive and loves being around anyone in the house. He is an outdoor cat and can access the garden at all times, but still has a litter tray inside. We have 2 other cats (4yrs, male, neutered, unbothered by him)

However, since the beginning he has been a prolific pee’r, anything remotely square, boxes, shopping bags, washing baskets, baths etc. He uses his litter tray occasionally but also pee’s/poo’s outside and can alway access the garden. He has a clean bill of health from vets, eats well and is not seemly jumpy or scared of anything or the other cats.

I have dealt with it by just not leaving anything that looks like a litter tray anywhere but recently he has just been randomly peeing over places. For example he was on the bed attacking/playing with things, my DH got in and he zoomed off, only to come back 10 seconds later and promptly squat down and pee on the bed on my DH lap. This morning my DS was putting on his shoes on the bottom of stairs, cat comes up to him and pee’s next to him!

Can anyone help? He is the best most friendly guy and doesn’t seem to have any issues otherwise!

kitten tax as below!

When you clean up the pee use a neutralising enzyme spray. If he can still smell the pee(which you may not) he will try to mark again as it’s his territory.

my cat loves a box wee- quick on the mark to say no and move her.

One of mine is like this. It’s really hard but I love him so I just put up with it! I don’t have any advice I’m sorry; I’ve tried everything. Even got him on urinary supplements just in case but they’ve made no difference 💸

One of my Burmese cats would do this. No idea why, but he was awful dim, so I suppose he thought he’d poo in what he thought was the new litterbox left out for his exclusive use. Boxes, washing baskets complete with clean linen, plastic bags with shredded paper, all sorts. We got used to not leaving anything about that could be mistaken for the real thing. Odd really, because he loved to play hide and seek with his brother in un pooed boxes. Maybe some boxes smelled of something.

Do you clean up properly? How many litter trays do you have between all the cats?

The bags/boxes just get chucked and I spray an enzyme spray on the unchuckable items, he doesn’t have form for peeing in the same spot it’s just random. I’m finding comfort in the fact I’m not alone, it’s just the older 2 have never done it!

Using urine spray/chucking things

Only one litter tray, the other 2 have never been seen to use one and are out most of the day, but I could try another one?

This is weird because he actually has a cardboard box house from his cat food delivery which he never pee’s in and just plays with. The other day the exact box got delivered again I put it out and he pee’d in it in about an hour.

@RatatatCat ideally it’s meant to be one litter tray per cat plus an extra - if he’s using the tray to poo he probably doesn’t want to pee in the same place.