Moving litter tray on a night time?

[cakey877]

Hi all

I have a 12 week old kitten he's been with us since 8 weeks and so far (fingers crossed) has been a dream with his tray only one accident on the first day where he peed all over me and the sofa 🤦🏽‍♀️. Anyway we keep him in our small box room with all his kitty toys, food, scratch post, litter tray etc we need to keep the door shut as DH is such a light sleeper he wouldn't cope with him in our bedroom he even wears ear plugs every night as the slightest noise wakes him.

Kitten has become a nightmare on a morning meowing extremely loudly from 6am, I want to move him to the kitchen at night but I don't want his tray in there permanently for obvious reasons (house is small kitchen/dinner and only space for tray is next to kitchen table) can I keep his tray in the downstairs loo daily then move it to kitchen on a night so we can shut him in there?

Thank you 😊

I don’t see why not so long as you show him a few times it’s now in the downstairs loo. This is what we are planning to do with ours - at the moment it’s in the kitchen where they are shut overnight but during the day I’d like it to be in the downstairs loo. I guess try it and see!

@Mincepiesallyearround

I don’t see why not so long as you show him a few times it’s now in the downstairs loo. This is what we are planning to do with ours - at the moment it’s in the kitchen where they are shut overnight but during the day I’d like it to be in the downstairs loo. I guess try it and see!

Thanks mincepie I just wasn't sure if this was a big no no (first time cat owner so just learning 🤣) I'll give it a go and see how he gets on...I really need a sleep in 🤦🏽‍♀️

You get used to 6am starts eventually.

We have a covered corner litter tray with a lid and flappy door in the kitchen- they are in there overnight. It doesn't really get too stinky (as they prefer to poo in our other larger litter tray). I thought about putting it in the downstairs loo but we often shut the door so i wasn't sure it would work. I was also a bit eurgh about it in the kitchen but I'm over that now....lol.

I do move the trays around a bit e.g. sometimes we put it in the living room and shut the door if we don't want them escaping through the front door. They jist use the tray wherever it is. So I'm sure you'll be fine.

Is your kitten waking because she's hungry? (Could you give her some extra.food at bed time?) Is she cold?

@Mumdiva99

We have a covered corner litter tray with a lid and flappy door in the kitchen- they are in there overnight. It doesn't really get too stinky (as they prefer to poo in our other larger litter tray). I thought about putting it in the downstairs loo but we often shut the door so i wasn't sure it would work. I was also a bit eurgh about it in the kitchen but I'm over that now....lol.

I do move the trays around a bit e.g. sometimes we put it in the living room and shut the door if we don't want them escaping through the front door. They jist use the tray wherever it is. So I'm sure you'll be fine.

Is your kitten waking because she's hungry? (Could you give her some extra.food at bed time?) Is she cold?

Thank you mumdiva we actually moved him downstairs last night as he wouldn't settle then me and DH had a big argument over it as he was worried about not sleeping 🙄 he seemed calmer downstairs not sure if it's with the kitchen being bigger so he has done exploring space for when he wakes up!

I've had a look at those corner trays and think I'm going to go for one of those and leave in the kitchen it did feel really icky this morning having his uncovered litter tray in there (even though it's clean) He has a hooded self heating bed and I leave plenty of toys, I wonder if we do need to feed him more he has Ava kibbles and 2 wet pouches a day split into 4 meals. Does this sound too little?

Glad it was a bit better last night. The food sounds about right.....I just gunge it that if they've finished everything by about 9pm then I give them some extra biscuits - my kittens tend to have a mad hour from 9-10 (just when you want to watch TV quietly) so I know they work up more appetite.

Gauge not gunge. Sorry.