I might be, or he's total a-hole. But it's more complicated than this. He's 8, spent one year in shelter since everytime someone entered room he was hiding, so no one took him. He "exercises" daily, got full vet checkup, bloodwork has better than I do (kidney problems might lead to urinating all over the place), I've bought Feliway electric dispenser, checked 6 kinds of kitty litter and testing 7th, he was nutred in shelter. What I meant, this is very variable species when it comes to behavioral "diversity", and people are simply not counting it in when thinking about having cat. Especially that whole internet is (for lack of better word) saturated with cute cat pictures. I know it's just animal, and this particular specimen, very particular, still I had to throw away 2 beds, sofa, chair, mattress, 5 pairs of shoes, some clothes and pillows.

> He's 8, spent one year in shelter since everytime someone entered room he was hiding, so no one took him.

Yeah. As you're obviously aware, this cat will require extensive and persistent training. Older animals that are surrendered to a shelter are not-infrequently difficult to train or deal with.

People who are -for whatever reason- unable to properly train their animal will often surrender their poorly-socialized and poorly-trained creature to a shelter, where it becomes someone else's problem. It kinda sounds like you ended up with one of those kitties.

Anyway. Do you have a cat tree or similar carpeted furniture that is -explicitly- for the cat to claw, chew, and otherwise demolish? If you don't, you definitely should get one or more such items. They're kinda pricey, but:

1) Cats with claws are going to scratch things. It's what they do, it's impossible to stop, and it pleases them to scratch things.

2) Cat trees/furniture are almost always less expensive than nice human furniture. :)

For our cats, occasionally spreading catnip on new cat furniture and encouraging them when they scratched it rather than the human furniture was quite enough to make them stop scratching couches and the like. (You might go so far as to scratch the cat furniture with your hands in view of your cat while making whatever noises of approval you make when the cat does something good.)

Once a cat gets it into its head that that cat furniture is its furniture, you don't need to go to great lengths to convince the cat to scratch on the new furniture when it inevitably becomes time to replace the worn-out stuff.

Cat vomit is an unavoidable part of cat ownership. If the cat vomit doesn't nearly always contain a hairball, it's entirely possible that the cat's food doesn't agree with its digestive system. As our cats aged, food that was once perfectly acceptable started to disagree with them, and we went through a multi-month search to find foods that agreed with them.

Sadly, I have no advice for the out-of-litterbox shitting and pissing. I've never had to box train an old cat. :( If a cat is unhappy or angry, it may choose to fail to use its litterbox. So, the problem could be more than just the wrong type of litter. But -really- I have no freaking clue. :(

Best of luck with your cat. I do hope that you can figure out what he needs to be happy, comfortable, and keep all his shit contained in his shitbox. :)

Thanks for concern, appreciated. He has scratching post (well two) and furiously scratching them. But chair is chair, you know, forbidden fruit. Vomit is not that often or shitting, pissing is where I've got problem to solve. I've consult animal behaviorist which is also vet in clinic we're going, and she said that if cat gets neutered after adolescence it might become habit to mark territory either way. Plus he might got into concept that since in shelter everything is "toilet" then why not at my place. Well, we'll see, so far Mattias is winning pissing contest :)

    > I think you may be a bad
    > cat _owner_ from the
    > sound of it

Why are people always so quick to victim blame?

It's an animal, you should be able to outsmart and train it.

And if the cat was treated poorly and dumped at a shelter, it's the victim.

It's extremely reasonable to conclude that the cat's owner(s) are the problem. It just happened to be caused by a previous owner in this case, which was key missing context.

Probably that parasite that cats transmit: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/01/220113-sneak... You should check cat fancier forums posts about cats destroying household. It's like people in abusive relationships rationalazing "I was beaten, but it's my fault, I shouldn't talk so loud" or sth like this.