I have a question for any other cat people that may be here. I have a two year old male cat, unfixed, who I'm trying to train out of spraying in my apartment. I have pet odor removal stuff so the smell isn't so much of an issue. I've been using negative reinforcement, a squirtbottle and a firm "no" plus putting him in a dog crate when I sleep at night.

The reason I've chosen to keep him unfixed is a bit of a long story, but the short version is that his full brother, Red, was very special to myself and my brother. Red took off out the door at my old house in December of 2011 and never came back. He never turned up on craigslist, none of the neighbors ever saw him, and although my brother hiked all around the isolated property he never found a trace of his body. Two days after he took off we had horrible half sleet half snow falling for a day and a half, so either the coyotes, an eagle, or the weather ended Red. We missed Red a lot and felt bad we were never able to find him, so a couple of years later we adopted the cat I have now, Murry. We had two other cats at the time so we definitely weren't looking for a third cat, but Murry is Red's full brother and the last litter from their mother. So we brought home Murry and decided that we would keep him, not fix him and breed him later on down the road. Both Murry and Red came from an excellent line of hunters. Red dragged back a bushy tailed rock rat the size of a small rabbit, as well as small rabbits on a regular basis. Originally, my brother was going to keep Murry and I was going to move out with the other two cats. Circumstances have changed to where my brother has to move and can't take Murry, so I am now responsible for all three cats.

My other two cats are fixed, one is a 12 year old fixed male (Asher), the other a 3 year old fixed female(Aussie). My question is this; how do I get Murry to stop spraying? I've done a little research and as far as I can tell, even if we get him fixed now he might still spray.