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I initially thought maybe UTI or worse, but then I realized that where she peed at, she had to make a conscious effort to get there and pee. She just didn't do it on the way to her box. My cat has two boxes in the same closet(walk-in closet). One is covered, and one is not. I noticed that the older she got(she is 17 now), she started missing her box. So I put a border on the one without the cover, so that she had to jump into it. If she just walked into it, once she put her nose in the litter, she started peeing. Ever since I put the border up, she stopped doing that and only went inside the box(without the cover)because she had to jump in from the outside of it to get in.. The box with the dome cover, I have to keep the dome on it because of that behavior. She is a pretty large cat, 16 lbs, and can't fit comfortable in that box, but she still squeezes in there and does her business...usually in the same spot every time because of not being able to turn around comfortably because of the dome. Just the other day, I noticed on the side of that dome covered box, she peed. But she had to make a conscious effort to jump over the side of the dome just to go pee there. The only thing I can think of is she did it because there is litter spilt back there from when I clean that box. And she had peed there on the floor when she was a kitten, because she had struvite crystals. Maybe she can still smell the remanence of it, IDK? There was definitely a big enough space for her to jump back there and do it, but she had to decide to jump back there, because of the dome cover, just to pee. I have since put an old box back there so she cannot jump back there,unless she wants to squeeze into a tiny space where she can't move at all. Do you think it is because of past pees there when she was a kitten and/or the litter that was spilt back there?