I am so frustrated. I have 2 cats who are 16 months old, so adolescents. They are sweet, generally good cats but they also go on streaks of misbehavior that I do not understand. In 2 days they've pooped on my couch cover twice and peed in my laundry basket. They also scratch things like my wall. Days go by without problems but when they are bad they are very, very bad.

I don't know which cat is doing what, except for the scratching. They have 3 clean litter pans in the basement and scratching posts in both rooms of my house.

They are due for vaccines so I'm going to see what the vet suggests but I feel like I'm a failure in teaching them to behave. My previous cats never did this kind of thing aside from incontinence at a very old (20 years) age and that was from a physical problem.

I love them but this stuff makes me feel like I have no bond with them and never will. Not true but I just don't get it. I'm so embarrassed about it; I am mortified to tell the vet that I have failed in training them apparently.

Anxiety soaring.