My cats are assholes but not nearly this bad.
They are very habitual creatures too like lizards. Develop a routine where they pee in the same place every time and that could help. There's ways to do that I won't get into. It is really time consuming.
Cats don't really have alphas. You're either dangerous or prey or part of the troop. Dominance doesn't work with them really. And if you aren't there they will do whatever they like to do. You can scare them a bit and make them more cautious. You can end up with quite a neurotic cat that way.
Mine respect me. Only if I get up and hisss tho. If stay laying down or sitting down "I'm not important enough to listen too". Big problem with them clawing shit. They do have a small vocabulary and it even includes "out" which means to go to their cat room. Which they will reluctantly follow if I herd them. They do listen and follow commands only when they feel like it.
I sprayed that funky celery smelling stuff everywhere and that did help a little. It was just as short term a solution.
Most effective way gently picking them up and moving them over and over. And providing them their own stuff to claw.
You could throw a shirt down nexto their litter and sit with them all day and if they go for the shirt pick him up put him in the litter and paw it. Do that over and over for a week and just maybe...
Also you can give him his own room and litter in there with some clothes and let him mark it up for awhile until he figures out its nicer to sleep in the clothes than pee on them. And instead pee in his own litter.
Out cats have a small mudroom plus outside cage. They do like their rooms cleaned occasionally too. When we clean in the house it's a race to get their scent on everything. Tho I don't have the peepeeepooo problem you have. Also I agree with Rob. Nextime he's on or near or investigating your "clean clothes" sponge some pee and move him to his litter. Pee is sterile. Anyways. You do have old clothes you don't care about? Maybe his environment just is too "boring" and he can't keep enough of his scent around.
Look up cat pee problems tho and find a guide. Mine was easy. My cat just needed insulin. Tho.
Maybe even easier just to squirtgun him and his every time he's about to pee or poop somewhere wrong. Then spray the "no go there cent (buy in pet store). Everytime. Should take like a month or so. He'll eventually get the idea.
He could just be having horrible anxiety attacks around you and your clean clothes so you don't want to escalate that to when there's no clean clothes.
I mean he just may need to spend more time with you and interact more so he feels safer and more comfy in "his home". You're probably an intruder to him and he doesn't know how to establish a report without peeepeepooopooo. Which in the wild they do when taking turns over shared territory. You need to hack that behavior. Leave a peed on shirt near his litter or something idk. Rly. I barely grasp basic cat. Pee is really important to them. For sure tho.
Hope this helps and gg. Cats are pretty weird.
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