We got a rescue cat nearly a month ago and she has settled in really well. She is good at using the litter tray and we let her out for the first time last week. She has a cat flap which she is happy to use.
We now want her to go to the toilet when she is outside.
We tried putting the litter tray nearer to the door and then outside. Whilst she seemed to wee outside (although there may be wet patches in places we can't see!) she is not pooing outside. If the tray is outside she poos on the floor.
We have a very open plan house and it's really unpleasant. We have had a cat before and he always went to the toilet outside so we expected the same of this cat once she had settled.
Does anyone have any tips? I am quite sad at the thought we have to have a litter tray all of the time as there really is nowhere to put it without it being in a place where we eat or trip over it. I guess we may have been naive to think we wouldn't need one.
Has anyone had a similar experience or can offer advice?
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Help me get my cat to poo outside
BoysRule · 13/04/2016 17:42
And how are you going to ensure that it only shits in the gardens belonging to the neighbours who don't mind? 
Because we have one neighbour with a cat and nothing but fields for miles. 
Filling litter tray with soil from garden, then gradually moving it further outside worked for us.
Our litter tray is now half buried in a flowerbed in a discreet corner as his lordship still has to have climbed into a plastic tray before he can bring himself to go! Means I still have to clear it out every so often but at least my neighbours still like me (as far as I know 
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