How do you know you are ignoring him? If you play on, does he leave? Maybe he WAS asking for more.... Presumably such a well trained pet as yourself could interpret whether he was going to crap in the case or not, in which case, I think you have it sussed.Now all you have to do is stop buying food in cans he can't manage, and your job is done..... : )
PS Max the broken cat is on the mend - and crafty as all getout... he was trotting round the garden on 3 good legs and one slightly wobbly, until he spotted me looking out the window at him, when he immediately became tripod cat with 3 wobbly legs and one that resembled a sock full of custard. There go his privileges! And to think I was feeding him biccies on the sofa and carrying him out to the food bowls! Little bugger!
LTS