Am I going to regret this - Litter tray related

[areyoumad]

Ok so my Dcat has been with us three years now, she has a litter tray but is amazingly clean in the house and has used it twice in the whole time she has lived with us.
I am fed up of tripping over the darn thing in the spare room (only viable place for it) and knocking bits out when she doesn't use it.
We have a cat flap and we lock it shut so she's in once it gets to around tea time, so around 4 - 6 pm is.
Very rarely (I'm talking like five times since we've had her) she decides at a stupid early hour she needs to loo, as she doesn't like using the litter tray she meows, over and over and over until we give up and let her out (putting the cat flap to in only so when she returns shes locked back in IFSWIM). Once I stuck her out and she meowed for 2 hours before using the damn thing and then because she'd got an upset tummy and it was vile I ended up getting up and cleaning it out anyway.
I have now removed the damn thing, and shoved it in the garage, thinking that I need it because she ends up in for any reason then I can use it then.
Am I going to regret it? Are there any negatives to me doing this - I can't sleep through her meowing as she's so loud and walks all over you to doubly make sure that she's got your attention.
Thanks for reading

[bonzo77]

Sorry I don't understand. Is the cat going to be locked in or locked out at night, or free to come and go?

My cat is also too precious to be allowed out at night. She also yowls all night and wakes us up. So she is shut in the kitchen with the tray. She also doesn't use it except once or twice when she had diarrhoea. Best solution for us.

[bonzo77]

Oh, during the day I shove the tray into the downstairs toilet. Saves me tripping on it and DS from playing in the special indoors sand pit

[girlywhirly]

If you have an internal door to the garage you could have a catflap installed and keep the tray in the garage ready for use.

We have a litter tray wedged between our downstairs loo pan and the wall. Our cat prefers to go outside but has used it when desperate or she has sniffed a more dominant cat has passed through our garden.

[ragged]

I would try it (tray gone forever), but don't complain if you find a mess in odd place!

[areyoumad]

Hi bonzo she's in at night, she has no road sense and hate her out at night.
I think I'm going to try it and accept if I get an odd mess it's my fault :)

[bonzo77]

areyou I think if you put the tray away you'll find she will hold it in till morning. I swear they use the tray because it's an easy option. I caught mine trying to use hers rather than go out in the snow! I put it on a high shelf in our downstairs loo during the day and I went in to use the toilet and she was squatting about to go having got onto the shelf. Obviously I sent her out.

[areyoumad]

She's the other way around, she will not use it unless she has absolutely no choice ever, she wakes us all up to get us to open the catflap rather than use the tray ever. It's now removed and so far so good :)