I hate my cat

I cant even believe that I can type that. I am not the kind of person who would ever even think it, let alone say it but I am at my wits end.

My cat is about 12, been an indoor cat for at least a decade, fixed for even longer than that, its just me and him in an apt in a rural area, no other animals inside, no company over ever...... BECAUSE HE WILL NOT USE THE LITTER BOX. Scratch that, he might use it once a day. MIGHT. There is nothing physically wrong with him. No stress in his life...just mine. Because he pees every fucking where. I have done everything recommended to me, most of it twice. And nothing works. He did not use to be like this either. But this has been his determination for at least the last two years.

We even moved apartments about a month ago to a place pristine clean with brand new carpet (that I did not want and begged them not to put in). And he got two new litter boxes. And he did go in the box for one week exactly. Then it was off the rails again. I spend all day every day cleaning carpet, cleaning hard floor, cleaning laundry. The amount of money I spend on this is staggering and trust me, I do not have it to spend.

Thats when Im home. When I am at work I am stressed about how much I am going to have to clean up when I get home. I have no time to do anything else with my evenings after I get off work. I dont even have time to unpack my stuff from the move.

And I dont want to hear that the box must be smelly because cats dont like to potty where there are bad smells. That is bullshit. The litter box is the cleanest place in the whole apartment now BECAUSE HE DOESN'T USE IT. He would rather piss and poop all over the place and in the same spots, walk through it, lay on it, smell it ALL the time vs just do it in the box so I can scoop it out and the smell be gone.

And the thing is, he KNOWS he shouldn't do it. He will hold it as long as he fucking has to so that I am not awake or looking at him or at home because he knows if I am, I will make him go in the box. And he doesn't want to. Simple as that.

I am so fed up with it that I can’t even bear to look at or hear him right now. Haven't been able to for the last 24 hours actually.

People in my life would be stunned to hear this from me. Like literally couldn't believe it. But I am sliding into depression because I don't know what to do.

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