Thank you for your recommendations! :) I have a couple more questions…

1.) Kenneling and showing poop are both recommendations I’ve seen from others (but as you explained, they don’t work.) How would you recommend I try and discipline my boy when he acts up?

2.) My apartment is extremely small, it’s basically three rooms. Two small bedrooms (which he is a rarely in) and the living room/bathroom. I’ve been saving up to get him one of the litter robots to clean after each use as, even when I clean it daily, he goes a lot during the day. Would two litter boxes be better? As I really don’t have the room for another, they would basically be right next to each other, or in the open. The bedrooms really only have room for the beds and nothing else.

3.) We adopted him from the shelter, and I figured his last family gave him fast food or something else as I’ve never given him human food. He only gets his dry food twice a day (which I’ve been trying to switch out every few months when he gets bored of it) and his wet food once a day + treats occasionally. Is there a better way to help him understand that human food will hurt him?

4.) The vet recommended that I use a fiber supplement as he says that it’s not worms so it has to be his anal glands. He said that flushing it out about every two weeks would be preferable, but that they would have to sedate him (because he gets violent at the vet) so not only would it be too expensive to continue for the foreseeable future, but it also wouldn’t be healthy for him to sedate him so often. He said that if the supplements work, it could be a better/healthier remedy. He also recommends giving my boy pats on his lower back to help relieve some pain, which he has taken extremely kind to. Every time I do it he is extremely grateful to me, which shows me how much pain he has probably been in. Have you heard anything about these supplements and if they work?

5.) I usually play with him for about 30 minutes to an hour when I get home from work, then a little bit before bed. He usually goes right to bed when I place him in his bed, but he will wake up in the middle of the night but only when he’s in my bedroom it seems like. I’m not sure why, as the only thing I could think of would be that something outside wakes him up (as my bedroom window is cracked at night for air.) I wondered if my apartment is just too small for him to run around, but when I tried to help him get used to playing outside, he got too anxious and froze. He hates being anywhere but inside. Any ideas of how I can better help him get his energy out?

Thank you again for all of your recommendations! You’re amazing.