I’m enjoying Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey Maturin series of books and I am finding, though much about sailing I don’t understand and just gloss over, it is the little things that make me wonder. Such as, how was animal poop dealt with on the ship? I assume larger animals would have stalls with hay which is easy enough to scoop out. But what about cats? Cats to catch rats. Where would they poop/pee on the ship? I assume they had the run of the ship? Did they have litter/sand boxes back then?