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Thankyou for your speedy reply boxtops. The thing was, when we got him home, we did the usual advised preparation and gave him 2 new beds to choose from (one in the lounge and one in the kitchen; in the kitchen, his food bowl was at one end, his litter tray at the other and his bed in the middle. Admittedly, it's not the biggest kitchen in the world but i think we had set it up correctly for him. Incidentally, he did actually use the litter tray for a number 2 not long after arriving,but he's never used it since. I forgot to mention the fact that we didn't have a chip-enabled cat flap until a fortnight after we had him