One of our cats is 13 this year and has arthritis in his back legs. His knee joints are now totally shot and he has been started on Metacam this week which he will need for life. He is still mobile if not a bit unsteady if he's been sitting/lying for a while and obv not as spry as he used to be. This week he has started pooing either on the lawn or on the strip of large pebbles which edges the lawn. Our lawn is fake grass so it's a bit of a pain to clean cat poo off. He's lived in this house his entire life and we've had fake lawn for 4 years. The only possible cat toilet is our flowerbed which has been a chicken run for the past 18 months. So he's been pooing elsewhere his entire life and something has changed. He spends a lot of time in the neighbours gardens (so that's probably where he poos) and is still going over there as normal although obv less in this cold/wet weather. No fences to jump over or any other complicated access to the other gardens which his painful legs might limit. Only other factor is the new alpha male cat on the block but we've been dealing with him for a few months and the lawn pooing is new. Husband assured me he mentioned lawn pooing at vet visit on Thurs but says she was more concerned about treating his pain and didn't say anything about the pooing. Any ideas what we can do? We could get a covered litter tray outside (no room inside) but I think our other two lazy cats would use it. And prob every other cat in the area. Any advice please?
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