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Transition from litter box to doing business outdoors (slrpnk.net)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/cat@lemmy.world

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We've got one cat 6months and the other 3months old, currently both using the litterbox. However we're going to move to a new house soon, and eventually try to transition them to getting used to doing their business outdoors instead of the litterbox. Does anyone have any tips or best practices for this transition?

Edit: I dont live in the US, I live in Scandinavia - huge garden and away from traffic. The cats are fine being outside - most cats here are in fact outside. We have norwegian forest cats and they're meant to be both indoors and outdoors - even during winter!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Forest_cat

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[–] lud@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I agree that cats should probably be inside for environmental reasons, but I don't care if cats live somewhat shorter lives if they are outside, because they are obviously very happy when they can go outside.

Our cat is pretty depressed during the winter months because she can't go outside (well, she can if she wants but she rarely is because it's very cold and often snowy), so she just goes around meowing at shit because she is bored. During summer she is outside a lot and is noticeably happier.

The same applies to humans.

And it's not like we live next to a highway like seemingly all Americans are, we have lots of outside cats in the neighborhood and they have been doing absolutely fine for many many years.