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Posted: 3/29/2013 8:12:58 AM EDT
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Where do you keep your litter boxes at?
The GF (no pics as i want to keep living) wants to get a cat and has asked me to think of where to put the litter box at. Any help is appreciated. |
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Downstairs half bathroom.
We bought one of those litter box shelters that look like a white piece of furniture like an end table and the plastic high side litter box is inside that. We keep the litter "fixins" in the hall closet across from it. Neither of us use the downstairs bathroom so it is more or less our cat's own personal shitter. And when the little bastard drops a real bomb we can use the bathroom vent fan to mitigate the gas attack while we remove the land mine. |
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laundry room +1 or anywhere else fairly isolated.
cat + tiny house or apartment = no go. it's worth investing several hundred dollars in an air purifier (i got a rabbit air model and selected an ODOR filter as one of the filter layers) if you care at all about what other people think of yer stink... |
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Downstairs half bathroom. We bought one of those litter box shelters that look like a white piece of furniture like an end table and the plastic high side litter box is inside that. We keep the litter "fixins" in the hall closet across from it. Neither of us use the downstairs bathroom so it is more or less our cat's own personal shitter. And when the little bastard drops a real bomb we can use the bathroom vent fan to mitigate the gas attack while we remove the land mine. This. Ours is also in the guest half bathroom. |
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Cat box is in the cellar, by the washer.Cut a little cat door in the cellar door so the lady cats can have a girly wizz in private.
Use Cedarific cat litter. Light easy to carry and not as messy .Part of me realizes that I am paying $8.00 for a big bag of sawdust but that's another story. |
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In the pet room. We have 2 dogs and 3 cats so the small spare bedroom is a pet room.
If you feed a cat only dry food and keep the litter box scooped out (think of it as flushing the toilet after use), there should be little to no bad litter box smell. Knew a guy who claimed he could always tell if a house had a cat by the bad smell. I didn't tell him I had a cat, invited him over and enjoyed the look of shock on his face when my big tom strolled out. |
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Non carpeted floor. Away from the noise and bustle of the household. In a place where you can police all the doors and make sure cat has constant access (that might mean kitty doors in people doors if you have kids or a person that can't remember to leave the door cracked). Basement, laundry room, or get a cat door for the garage / house door and put it out there. You need to expect 20 feet of tracked litter, less if it transitions to carpet. If the area gets pitch black at night, put a night light in it. I put mine in the basement.
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First problem: cats don't have owners, they have staff. 
We built a room especially for pets in the lower level and put in a pet door to the outside. BAD IDEA! Who know that racoons and skunks love litter boxes, and love to roam the house. That door is now closed permanently. As others have said, have hard floors in a separate, quiet area of the house if possible. Also, if you have multiple cats, plan on the doorway being an ambush point. |
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Best thing I ever did is install the cat box in a coat closet off our entryway, use a cat door into it and then use door seal at the bottom to eliminate litter moving from the closet to the foyer underneath the door. Then I installed a low power constant on exhaust vent (using parts from a hepa filter built into a fixture in the ceiling and then vented through flexible tubing that uses little power, but keeps the closet at negative pressure compared to the house so that no smell gets out. Exhaust vents through attic like a bathroom fan. I have two litter boxes in there and have absolutely no issues with smell, litter escaping (although we have a robotic vacuum for that issue that vacuums everyday). We empty the two boxes for two cats every monday and thursday night. Air filter alone won't work, needs ventilation. Closet shelving also gives a great place to store cat litter, etc. Closet is about 3 x 3 or so, and had carpet originally I ripped out, and now we've tiled the whole house it is even easier to clean. Vacuum up the loose litter trapped in there about once every couple of weeks.
Garage in TX is too damn hot to keep a cat box in, although we have a door out to there as well. THE KEY TO A SMALL ENCLOSED SPACE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO MELT OFF YOUR FACE OPENING THE DOOR IS VENTILATION! Better living through technology. I have had the self cleaning ones, but they just didn't hold enough waste for two cats. |
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In the basement. I tacked a chair glider to the side of the door so it won't close all the way and he can flip it open with a paw.
I am considering installing a "cat hole" that looks like a little train tunnel on the bottom of the door. The chair glider has been working great for years, so it would pretty much be for my personal amusement.
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Slight hijack ... How frequently do most people scoop the box? How often does the the litter get completely changed out? Ours twice daily, but we have 4 cats. We don't do total changes, we just add more to replace what comes out in clumps. Another advantage of the high quality stuff. |
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Slight hijack ... How frequently do most people scoop the box? How often does the the litter get completely changed out? Ours twice daily, but we have 4 cats. We don't do total changes, we just add more to replace what comes out in clumps. Another advantage of the high quality stuff. We just have one that we recently brought home, but at the rate she's going it appears that we pretty much need to take care of it daily. |
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Slight hijack ... How frequently do most people scoop the box? Daily. We use pine litter and while it is excellent at containing pee and the pee smell, it is absolutely horrible at containing stool and the accompanying stench. So we scoop daily. Plus if we didn't our retard cat has a habit of stepping in his own previous works and tracking it into the hallway. How often does the the litter get completely changed out?
Again we use the pine litter, so it can go a week or longer before it needs to be changed out. Usually when the litter is half sawdust I change it out... and that depends on how much our little retard is peeing that week. Some weeks he's camel mcnopiss and other weeks he's junior fireman. |
| I have had several cats and used littermaids wother decent success. .the best training I did with our now one year old cat was toilet train her.. zero smell and mess. litter box location I suggest is the bathroom if it has a vent to the outside on a switch. it gets though the whole house when they dump. |
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A little training and lots of patience can make litter boxes a thing of the past: http://i01.i.aliimg.com/img/pb/770/762/341/341762770_116.jpg I wished i had done this. great idea. In 1 house I kept the litter box in the bathroom. Everytime I was in there taking a SHIT he was in there taking a shit and we just stared at eachother. that was funny. no basement in next house so it ended up in the laundry room. but this sucks when you are shaking out clothes or drop some socks into the damn litter box. |
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A little training and lots of patience can make litter boxes a thing of the past: http://i01.i.aliimg.com/img/pb/770/762/341/341762770_116.jpg I wished i had done this. great idea. In 1 house I kept the litter box in the bathroom. Everytime I was in there taking a SHIT he was in there taking a shit and we just stared at eachother. that was funny. no basement in next house so it ended up in the laundry room. but this sucks when you are shaking out clothes or drop some socks into the damn litter box. Get a litterbox with a lid. Only way to go in my opinion. It also keeps them from slinging litter everywhere. |
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Where do you keep your litter boxes at? The GF (no pics as i want to keep living) wants to get a cat and has asked me to think of where to put the litter box at. Any help is appreciated. Best place for me is right next to the toilet. Every time I use the bathroom, I reach down and scoop the box. Keeps everything nice and clean, easy peasy. No stinky trash either since I scoop it directly to the toilet and flush it. |