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My cat (7 year old male) had been training for a couple months with the Litter Kwitter and he was doing awesome. When we got to the green stage (he did the fully closed red insert and amber colored inserts one with a small hole and the second with slightly bigger hole wonderfully) he refused to use it. After a couple days of never using the green one once, he finally went poop but on the downstairs large area rug, we then lifted the rug up to check underneath it only to see he had 3 different spots on it that he was urinating at. I cut away the affected areas on the underneath pad as that would be difficult to truly clean and cleaned the area rug thoroughly with an enzyme cleaner and used it on the hardwood (then mopped). I ended up giving him his cat box back. He went back to using his box for several days with no problem but just caught him pooping on the rug again (in a different spot), despite his box being kept clean. In the 7 years we have had him we've never had an accident and while thats to be expected during this training process, I would think having a familiar cat box available would have corrected this behavior. I'm willing to work with him some but I know my husband is less forgiving on this matter. He even said "if he's got an available litter box there's no excuse". I haven't told him about today's incident yet but if this problem persists I'm not sure we can keep him. I'm not one to just get rid of a family member but with small kids in the house and a new baby on the way I can't worry about them getting into urine or feces let alone the smell and cleanliness issue in general. Looking for advice, my kids and I would be devastated if we had to get rid of our loving cat!