Like Jinxy from Meet the Parents? Can your cat flush? 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcUTrC6nuaQ
@CottonTales I remember as far back as 1990 trying and failing to get a cat to use the toilet. Maybe I rescued kitties that were stupid, but it NEVER worked, and I tried SO hard.
I was even willing to flush for them, but none of them wanted anything to do with using the human toilet. The male cat was especially put out by the whole thing, and I ended up having to tear out the vanity and replace it because the urine had soaked into it from where he’d missed when he was trying to use the toilet.
The idea of a 20 pound cat and a litter box grosses me out. Anything that big should be doing their business outside.
Hmmm… I’d rather scoop the box that has almost no smell (use the good litter, like EverClean) than pick up warm, stinky, slimy dog doo. 
All my childhood cats went outside like dogs. No litter box. Is that not done anymore, even in less urban areas?
- Birds. Hate to see them killed.
- Where do they go? Neighbors garden.
- Coyotes. Lost one cat who slipped outside to a hungry beast.
Well, we did have many acres so no neighbors gardens to worry about. Ours never killed birds but field mice, chipmunks, and even rabbits were no match for them. There was always the occasional gift of a small creature dropped at our feet, sometimes just playing possum, often most definitely dead.
Riffing off of a FB joke a few friends made, your kitty probably hates chocolate.
Especially considering everyone knows bunny rabbits are the source for all those chocolate easter eggs… 
We have a colony of feral cats in our neighborhood. I like having them around because they keep the rodent population down ( mice and moles ) and I noticed that we didn’t see many black snakes last summer . Rock on kitties !
I’d rather keep my cats in and have been successful to some extent. H is opposed because he doesn’t like the stinkiness of the food and the litter. He wants them to eat and poop outside. We compromised and put the food and litter on a screened in back porch with a cat door to give them access. Everything was working fine until one cat learned how to push through the screen. The opening was so small we didn’t notice, We just saw the cats were somehow outside.
We are still figuring out what to do, but in the meantime the cats can go out during the day, but have to be in at night to be safe from the coyotes, etc. They cooperate pretty well, coming when I call them in the evening. The biggest problem is they bring in presents through the cat door. I don’t mind finding a lizard, still alive, in the bathroom, but am less thrilled about the snakes.
We have a kitty outhouse. The cats go out the cat door to a structure that holds their cat box. I still have to change it but it’s outside so no smell in the house. The cats can go past the cat box to an elevated catwalk that leads to a screened in catio in the back yard. So they are indoor cats with safe outside access.
My dog’s poop looks like and has the consistency of tootsie rolls. If your dog is making slimy poop, there’s something wrong with him. Add kefir to his diet…
In our neighborhood people that let their cats out get calls from the neighbors because they’re sitting (and shedding) on their front porch furniture or eating their birds that come to the feeders. It’s too high density here for people to let their cats roam without issues. Add to that the coyotes that have (sub)urbanized, and it’s not a good place for outdoor cats.
There are barn cats around here (horse country), but my god, those poor things are beyond scuzzy. 
I’m not sure how many mice they’re really dispatching…
Lol, MOD, no dogs here. You have no idea what happens to tootsie rolls that sit on the grass for a few hours here in Seattle - the rain turns them into mush. So when the pooch was still alive, if he left a present in the yard while we were not home, and it rained… Man. I don’t think kefir would have helped me. More like a glass of wine. 
Whether it’s scooping out a litter box or picking up dog poop in our yard or on our walks, the icky part of pet ownership just goes with the territory. Outside cats don’t live long, and many neighborhoods just can’t accommodate them.
“The cats can go past the cat box to an elevated catwalk that leads to a screened in catio in the back yard. So they are indoor cats with safe outside access.”
If I get reincarnated into a cat, I want to live at @Wellspring’s house!
I know right? I told them when I adopted them at the shelter that they were on their way to cat heaven.
I just came home to our resident male feral being harassed by a flock of turkeys…I had to scare the birds off with my SUV so he could escape the cold and snow and hunker down in our shed
Love that catio idea…wish we had a bigger yard…
Cat box: in our unfinished basement…we installed a cat-flap door in the door to the basement stairs. The basement conveniently has an outside door near the garbage cans. Unfortunately, when thunder rolls our small dog thinks squeezing through the cat door and hiding in the litter box is a good idea. Too many post-storm baths!
I have never been very good about training our dogs or cats, but I have done a pretty good job training DH to clean the cat box, 8-> On the other hand, he rarely has to lift a finger in the garden so I guess we’re even.
Speaking of turkeys and cats, did you see this video last week? So odd.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/02/518200840/turkeys-circling-a-dead-cat-are-probably-wary-not-working-dark-magic
@lje62 poor kitty!