Originally posted by moosmom
Grabbing him by the scuff of the neck and yelling at him won't do any good. Is he neutered??? If not, he needs to be.
He doesn't need to be neutered, he isn't spraying. He is only 3 months old. I will neuter him in two or three months.

Originally posted by moosmom
I would also feed him nothing but cat food (no table scraps, no treats). His colitis is obviously bothering him and you getting angry at him for something HE has no control over isn't going to help. It's only going to make him feel worse.
No, no, he only had colitis for a few days. It wasn't making him pee on anything. All it did was make him have bloody diahhrea. I NEVER got mad at him for having blood in his diahhrea. I was very worried about him. His peeing has nothing to do with his colitis, nor any medical problem. He simply doesn't understand, which is what I have been trying to make him do. I don't give him table scraps. He got the colitis from the Tripett cat food, but since he has gotten used to it and it no longer irritates his colon.

I thought that grabbing him by the scruff would show that I am correcting him, like a mother would correct her kitten, and "bad cat" (I didn't yell it, just firmly said it) would be the phrase I use when he is doing something wrong, and that he would get used to hearing it and understand what he's doing is wrong.

Since I have been crating him, we've had no accidents, even though my mom keeps leaving the laundry room open. I haven't been letting him on my bed, nor in my room when I am not home, and he's been doing very well. He went in for another checkup the day before yesterday, and the vet said he is in top shape, and that his accidents should go away as long as I am consistent and punish him if he's caught in the act, like I've been doing. So hopefully this behaviour has gone away, but for the next few months he will be crated at night until I am sure.