To banish cat from the house?

[FeckingEll]

At night.

Have rehomed the bloody thing in the garage.

We haven't had a litter tray indoors for over a year. Had an outside one for a while which she didn't use so I removed it. For the last few weeks, when it's been wet outside, she has been shitting in her bed. Two mornings in a row now I've come down to it.

I don't want an indoor tray again so have locked her in the garage with tray and food where she will go every night over the winter from now on.

DC think IABU but they're not cleaning up the shit and having to do two boil washes, one for bed, one to clean machine!

One of my cats was a rescue. It had two litter trays, but would still wee in it's bed and poo on the floor. The vet said it was behavioural. It's not always because there is no litter tray or the cat is physically unwell. The vet also said that cats are fine to sleep outside in the winter if they've been given blankets and have a dry shelter. But obviously that only applied to cats who are used to being outside and have got their winter fur.

Why ask if you’re being unfair if you clearly don’t give a fuck.
You sound awful.
That poor cat deserves a better home than someone like you who can’t just put a cheap litter tray and litter inside your house ..
Great lesson for your kids

There are some very helpful books on cats' behavioural problems. Vicky Halls is a very experienced cats' behaviourist( her book 'The Cat Detective' is excellent, it has chapters on all aspects of cat behaviour, and not surprisingly there is a chapter looking into the reasons why cats might wee or poo in the wrong places.

Here are a couple of reasons you might not immediately think of, for example, is that cats don't like a dirty litter tray, they like it to be cleaned regularly. They also sometimes don't like to wee and poo in the same place. My cats wee in their litter trays but go outside to poo. (We have plenty of areas in our garden that they can and do use.)

It can also be that they're afraid to do their business outside because they're being bullied by neighbourhood cats (they're at their most vulnerable when weeing or pooing.)

I don't know whether you're interested in putting the work into this, OP, so I may be wasting my time here. One thing you really should try, though, is a Felliway plug-in. It reduces cat stress levels; we had a problem of indoor spraying earlier this year and this
product completely stopped it.

Depends on the garage I guess. Not in very cold weather. My parents insisted we put our pet mouse in the garage when we were little because it stank. Poor thing froze to death over winter, despite an abundance of warm bedding.

Could you put a litter tray indoors just for the night? She probably won't use it unless absolutely necessary. Ours hasn't used hers for months now, but it's there just in case. It does smell when cats poo in their trays, but just scoop, flush or bin (depending on litter choice) and spray air freshener and it's all better again.