Hi all. I have looked thru some past FMLs and still feel I need help. Some of you may remember that Finnegan, whom we adopted at five months old from a shelter, took us over two months to litter train outside his cage. However, we finally did it and he was 100% with his litter box even out of the cage (which they're hardly ever in anymore) for about 3 months. Now, after three perfect months, he has started pooping and peeing wherever he feels like it again. They have had the run of most of our apt. when we're home for some time and he was great with litterbox usage, so I don't know why he all of a sudden started doing this again. He knows he is wrong and knows where he's supposed to go, because often if I catch him, I'll say "no" and point to the box and he'll then run right to the litterbox. But it's just getting worse and worse. He will go to the litterbox and stop directly in front of it and go on the floor there! He has started going on the floor under my computer table again (in front of the litterbox and under my table are the most likely spots), but he'll also occasionally go in the hall, next to my bed, in the corner by the door. Putting down bedding and toys in those spots has not been a deterrant-he goes right on the bedding, even if Nic is sleeping there-nor has limiting his free roam time and parameters. Nicodemus has fortunately not picked up Finn's bad habit. We scoop out the box every day (not to the point where they can't figure that it's a box) and change it out completely every few days, so he's not doing it b/c it's too dirty. Time outs in the carrier do not help. Nature's Miracle, Bitter Apple use have not really helped other than to make it less stinky for us. I am really at a loss. I am going to buy a squirt gun and hope that helps, but I don't know what else to do or why he is doing it. He is perfectly healthy. It has been too hot for us to leave them in the cage for any time and there is not room for it in our only air-conditioned room, the bedroom, but I have limited him to that room. HELP! -April [Posted in FML issue 3508]