An idea forms...

As you know, Sassy has been on lockup at night for several weeks.  Carl scoops her up when he goes to bed and locks her in the laundry room.  She can't come out until she poops.  She's good with this.  She's in and out of the laundry room all day proving that the room doesn't bother her.  The last week, however, she's been pooping in the litter box and peeing on the floor.  Not every night but several times.  Frustrating.  Tuesday night I had a dream about litter boxes (I know, right?).  I dreamed that we put a puppy training pad in the bottom of one of the litter boxes and Sassy loved it.   So, we thoroughly cleaned a box (it isn't like we don't have a bunch of them), put a large puppy pad in it and locked her up with her regular box and the new one with the puppy pad.  She used the box with the puppy pad, both poop and pee.  Not a great leap forward, but encouraging.  If she uses it during the day we might have reason to celebrate.