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I am kinda getting at my wits end here. I love my cat to death, and it worries the h### out of me. Lately, the past week or so, whenever she goes pee, she just walks halfway into her box to where she can smell her litter, then she just pops a squat with her butt hanging on the edge...usually making a big mess. When she poops, she goes in the middle of the box, so no issue with pooping. She has two boxes, and I clean them both daily...sometimes twice a day. She is a 14 yo tabby calico named tabitha. I know she is getting up there in age,so is this natural that they will just 'miss' the box? I watched her do it twice in a row. I scrubbed and cleaned the area/side of the box where she peed over, so she hopefully won't smell it and go there again. I have recently changed boxes,the one she started peeing over the edge was a covered generic litter box. She is a pretty big cat, so it is a tight space in there for her. So I changed that to an open box which is much bigger. But I saw her do the same thing in that one-just walked over the edge and popped a squat half way in,making a mess outside the box. So I built a retaining wall around the area where she enters(the backside of the box is against the wall), so now she has to jump over the wall to enter the box. It has seemed to work so far, but it has only been a couple of days. Any insight would be greatly appreciated, thanks!