My 10 month male kitty has developed a litter box problem. I have him for 3 weeks now and the first few days I locked him in the bathroom during the night with food, water and bed and his litter box to make sure he uses the litter box. Everything went fine and because of excesive miawing, we decided to stop locking him in the bathroom during the nights. He then continued using his litter box normally.
Then, after a week he urinated on our bed. We immiadetely decided to not let him in the bedroom again (because we thought that it was a territorial soiling since we were letting him sleeping with us or something). 5-6 days after that he urinated on the couch. By then we realised that he does that because he has allready defecated in the litter box and because we were sleeping we didn't have the chance to scoop it right a way. The same thing had happened when he urinated on the bed.
Then he did it again and urinated on the couch but without having allready defacated in the litter box. So, we decided to lock him in the bathroom during the night to re-train him. The first night he defacated in the litter box and urinated in the litter box and in his basket bed(with which he is not very familiar, not used it many times). The second night he was really crazy and miawing the whole night, and especially in the morning when I woke up because I heard a big noise of something falling down, and I saw that the kitty had managed to open the door and he had thrown the litter box down (it is not placed in the ground level) in which he had defecated and urinated.
We decided to not lock him in again. The next time he urinated, it was in his litterbox and the next time he defacated was on the couch.
I don't know why he is doing this. He sometimes uses the litterbox and sometimes not and now that he used the couch 3 times he has associated the couch with urinating and soiling. we have tried our best to clean it and put plastic under the couch sheets so that his urine doesn't go in the couch etc.
What should we do? We have thought of some solutions but probably some of you epxerts can help me out with this and advise me to what the best solution might be. We thought of putting his bowl with food on the couch so that he eats there and doesn't use it for urinating and defacating. The other we though is to place another liter box on the couch and gradually move it.
We also realised that he does this when we are not with him. I think that he uses the litter box when we sit in the living room. But when we are sleeping and he is staying in the living room it is more convinient for him to use the couch...

Also, I went to the vet a week ago for a general check up and she didn't say anything about something being wrong with my kitty...should I go again? Other then this problem, he seems perfectly fine.
Some help would be really nice to have from anyone!! So, any advise???
Myrto

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