My husband and I adopted a kitten from a local shelter a week and a half ago. The shelter estimated that he was around 8 weeks old at the time and told us that he had been brought in with some other kittens found without a mother. We initially kept him locked in our bathroom with his litterbox and used Fresh Scoop litter. He used his litterbox perfectly, however, several times we caught him eating the litter and because of the chemicals we had to switch it. We then tried a pine based pellet litter and he wouldn't even get in the box. Obviously that didn't work. So, I went back to the store and bought a safe wheat based litter. At first he didn't love it, but he's slowly come around to it. He uses it 100% of the time for p**p, but is hit or miss with urinating. He definitely knows where to go and we direct him back to the box whenever we suspect he may need to go (after naps, meals, and sometimes when he meows while we're playing). Gradually we've been bringing him out of the bathroom to play in our room and then our living room and on more than one occasion we have taken him to the box and he has deliberately chosen not to go in the box, but walked straight out and squatted by a wall. Tonight he chose to pee on a towel instead. It appears to me that because he uses his box most of the time for both pee and p**p that he knows where to go, but is choosing not to use his litterbox when he doesn't want to. We keep is litterbox clean (I scoop it in the morning and my husband checks it later in the day and either one of us cleans it out at night). What can I do to help him make the right choice? I've read several post, but nothing seems to be working for him. Thanks for the advice.
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