Hey, hey, hey, goodbye to the pee-couch

Well, ladies and gentlemen...THE NEW FUTON. After hours of driving around town, lugging things, getting snappy, assembling things, cleaning up... at 11:00 pm. I sat down to write my mom an email on my brand new, non-pee couch. At exactly 11:15 Klaus came up, snuggled beside me, then took a giant wizz right before my eyes. I won't really go into the details, but I will say that cleaning my brand new couch, was not the way I wanted to spend the last few minutes of my night.
Luckily, we thought ahead. We got a vinyl mattress cover to put under the actual cover, just, you know...in case. I cleaned it all up and immediately enacted the new plan. FOOD BOWLS. I read that a woman who had a similarly VERY BAD CAT....who tried everything, much as I have... finally found her solution when she started putting the cat's food on the couch. She only did it for a while, but the little dude seemed to get the point. SO, yes, those are cat bowls on the couch in the picture. Charming, but if it works... who friggin' cares.
He hadn't peed on it as of this morning (his favorite pee time), so we shall see. I'm knocking on the cheap, cheap wood of my futon.