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:-(   OMG!  There are organizations that take cats like this. I'm so sad.  [/quote]

Name one. Post a list with links. [/quote]

What hick town is this being beamed down from exactly? No vet in the actual Washington DC area would euthanize a 3 year old cat for peeing.
Help us pick out an organization for you by saying where you're actually from.[/quote]

Actually, or wonderful very did it,  after watching us struggle for nearly 2 years wirh this.  We adopted him from a shelter at 18 months of age,  he'd been given up because he peed around. I thought,  with all kinds of hubris, that as a very experienced cat owner, I could solve this, and he'd been in and out of foster homes because he kept getting sick at the shelter  and had not peed at the foster homes. (he was listed as hard to adopt because he'd been they're for 6 months and he peed)

Within 1 week he'd peed the first time.  And so it went.  He was a very anxious cat except when he wasn't.  Tried feliway, prozac, a cocktail of 2 drugs, added so many litter boxes we liked like a factory,  put litter boxes on all floors of the house,  saw a cat behaviorist  (biggest waste of $400 of my life) and still it continued.  Could have returned him to shelter,  where he's have lived his life at the shelter,  getting sick constantly. That's no way to live.  He's in a better place now,  if you believe in that.  Or, he's out of stress now.  Believe me, I agonized over this decision. But we had PTSD from his weekly and daily peeing. 
And you can't replace your sofa monthly,  nor mattresses. And he didn't just squirt a few drops,  he peed a gallon every time.

I now know I'm not invincible, despite the 20 to 30 cats I've had on my lifetime.

One idea:,  we had a very elderly cat who couldn't get into the litter box uie to arthritis and we put a pee pad down. You know like they train puppies with? It was great,  she could walk on it, pee, and keep going.  She was no longer sitting to pee at this point.  I've also had another elderly cat with high blood pressure and hyper thyroid whom we medicated for 2 or more years,  who in her last 18 months lived in a special bedroom with a heated bed, etc. She had a heart specialist who saw her every 6 months for 2 years. She died at 19 years old.  Believe me,  I know cats, and I've bent over for them,  but this guy wasn't rehome-able and we couldn't get him to stop peeing everywhere. 
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