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Please help. We have two cats who are sisters and two years old. They have been indoor cats since they were born.
We have moved to the country so wanted to get them going to the toilet outside. One is responding well to the toilet training outside, the other is not, she is continuing to pee and poop inside including in beds, in the bath, the floors. She is becoming angry and hissing when we tell her off and I am at my absolute wits end.
I completely understand the move is stressful and adjusting to outdoors and new surroundings, but we seems to be going backwards not forwards.
Here is what we did:
For four weeks following the move we continued to use an indoor litter tray, the got used to the cat flap and began to go outside to look more and more.
We then moved the litter tray to the porch, it stayed here for a few days. Then a few days at the front door but outside, then a few days down the path at the edge of the garden. It was going well with only a few accidents inside from one of them, the other seems eager to please. I’ve been taking them to the tray outside quite often I.e. mornings, after work, and a couple of times in the evening. One will usually go and likes a treat and lots of praise after. One has been a couple of times but is very reluctant. We removed the litter tray, but added litter to the dry ditch area where we’d been taking them too, treating this like a big litter tray.
She began toileting everywhere inside so we put the litter tray back outside, she hasn’t used it.
When she toilets inside I take her to it, say ‘no’ and tap her nose, then put her out. She has however for the first time ever started hissing at me when I take her to toilet now.
Maybe telling her off is the wrong thing to do?
I really am at my wits end with it all and don’t know what else to do!
Any help or guidance or anything would be so greatly appreciated.
We have moved to the country so wanted to get them going to the toilet outside. One is responding well to the toilet training outside, the other is not, she is continuing to pee and poop inside including in beds, in the bath, the floors. She is becoming angry and hissing when we tell her off and I am at my absolute wits end.
I completely understand the move is stressful and adjusting to outdoors and new surroundings, but we seems to be going backwards not forwards.
Here is what we did:
For four weeks following the move we continued to use an indoor litter tray, the got used to the cat flap and began to go outside to look more and more.
We then moved the litter tray to the porch, it stayed here for a few days. Then a few days at the front door but outside, then a few days down the path at the edge of the garden. It was going well with only a few accidents inside from one of them, the other seems eager to please. I’ve been taking them to the tray outside quite often I.e. mornings, after work, and a couple of times in the evening. One will usually go and likes a treat and lots of praise after. One has been a couple of times but is very reluctant. We removed the litter tray, but added litter to the dry ditch area where we’d been taking them too, treating this like a big litter tray.
She began toileting everywhere inside so we put the litter tray back outside, she hasn’t used it.
When she toilets inside I take her to it, say ‘no’ and tap her nose, then put her out. She has however for the first time ever started hissing at me when I take her to toilet now.
Maybe telling her off is the wrong thing to do?
I really am at my wits end with it all and don’t know what else to do!
Any help or guidance or anything would be so greatly appreciated.