Cat litter trays

[sbloom]

She accidentally hoovered up a very sloppy cat poo with her Shark hoover

Not uncommon it seems, I'm in a group where several people have had cat and dog accidents spread quite some distance...

 

[poiuytrewq]

eugh, I was annoyed this week at hoovering up/in a pile of little bits of charcoal that i assume came off the fire and was chewed up by the dog, That made a good, but luckily smell free mess!

 

[tankgirl1]

I have 2 indoor cats and 3 covered trays, 2 without the doors- only one cat will use the swing door but they both use the other two trays. The cover definitely helps keep on top of them kicking litter everywhere and slows the dog down a bit from getting the forbidden nuggets

 

[OrangeAndLemon]

Feeling quite smug as mine managed to vomit over an old towel the other night. The towel was on the floor in the conservatory after a little flooding / leaking from the bad weather.

No cleaning required, just chucked the towel in the bin.

 

[m1stify]

Have you tried a litter locker and a litter tray with flap - even if you remove the flap it’s much better than an uncovered tray. With a good litter (I use cats best and deep litter it) and the litter locker I scoop (!) couple times a day and only have to empty locker about once a week. You don’t have to use the litter locker bags I use just an ordinary bin bag with the empty cartridge. Also that litter is biodegradable and very easy to hoover up as it’s not gritty. I have to make sure the trays are spotless as one of mine will pee outside if he gets a hint of one of the others having used it before him - even though I have 3 trays

 

[poiuytrewq]

Have you tried a litter locker and a litter tray with flap - even if you remove the flap it’s much better than an uncovered tray. With a good litter (I use cats best and deep litter it) and the litter locker I scoop (!) couple times a day and only have to empty locker about once a week. You don’t have to use the litter locker bags I use just an ordinary bin bag with the empty cartridge. Also that litter is biodegradable and very easy to hoover up as it’s not gritty. I have to make sure the trays are spotless as one of mine will pee outside if he gets a hint of one of the others having used it before him - even though I have 3 trays

I have no idea what a litter locker is, I’ll have a look thanks.
We did have a couple of trays incase they didn’t like using the same one, obviously I clean when I see it needs it but not every week, they are happy to use the same though. Between the two they only ever used one particular tray so I got rid of the others. I just hate them so much

 

[Trouper]

We keep our litter trays beside the loo in bathroom and in the downstairs loo - on vinyl flooring which can be disinfected. Scattered litter is just swept or hoovered up.
The best advice our cat breeder gave us was to use World's Best Cat Litter. Not cheap (as it is corn based) but it is totally absorbent,very smell-resistant and you use much less than traditional litters. The very best part is that it is loo flushable - hence the location of the bins.

As we are now at the stage where our elderly cat likes to be very sociable and accompany anyone using the facilities (!) the bin is easily flushed frequently.

 

[poiuytrewq]

We keep our litter trays beside the loo in bathroom and in the downstairs loo - on vinyl flooring which can be disinfected. Scattered litter is just swept or hoovered up.
The best advice our cat breeder gave us was to use World's Best Cat Litter. Not cheap (as it is corn based) but it is totally absorbent,very smell-resistant and you use much less than traditional litters. The very best part is that it is loo flushable - hence the location of the bins.

As we are now at the stage where our elderly cat likes to be very sociable and accompany anyone using the facilities (!) the bin is easily flushed frequently.

That's cute! The dog is really part of the issue though. He really knows hes not allowed upstairs but if off like a rocket every oppertunity and there's not a lot clumsier (or in love with cat poo) than a labrador puppy!
I'm quite happy with the actual litter we use to be fair, I've tried so many and always go back to the same one. I'm a big clumping fan!

If anyone feels like correcting oppertunity please do! I wont be at all offended I'm just really annoyed I apparently get it wrong whatever i try!!!

 

[HappyHollyDays]

Second Worlds Best Cat litter although I never flush it. I use the lavender scented one which I prefer the smell of and of all the litters I’ve tried from paper, wood pellets, clay and silica it really is the best there is.

 

[Aru]

I have litter robots(litter robot 3) I got mine second hand.
They are lifechanging. They have needed some troubleshooting but most of their issues are minor and can be fixed at home.
Incredibly helpful in a multicat household
The dogs can't eat litter anymore and the cats always have fresh litter.
I couldn't go back to standard trays now I've gotten spoiled with once a week remove the bag and put it in the bin cleaning.

 

[FinnishLapphund]

Amazon.co.uk

Mr P has been given an ultimatum. We have two cats and he won’t allow them out over night so we have to have a litter tray.
It was behind the TV and I had to clean it because he “couldn’t fit round there”
So I moved it to the spare bedroom, he still never cleans it and for some reason one of the cats has started tipping it over. Also Bertie (dog) has found it and has started racing up to eat cat poo
So I’ve told him we need to sort this. I’ve requested a self cleaning one.
I know they have been discussed before and the price is shocking but seriously I’m done with it!
So can anyone reccomend one? They are on offer some places and tbh I’m happy to pay *for him to pay £300 to save this disgusting hassle.

Then I found the above! Really?

Late reply, but if the problem still haven't been solved, have you considered placing the litter box next to wherever Mr P spends the most time in your home? If that's your bed, place it on his side, and maybe sleep in the spare bedroom until he starts doing his part of this job?

Regarding the unwanted help from the dog with "cleaning" the cat litter box, we've used Marchioro Outdoor (dog proof) cat litter boxes indoors for many years now, and I think that they're brilliant. Except for a few weeks when growing puppies have happened to be cat sized, I've had no problem with unwanted cleaning help from my dogs.

They're also available in a model without filter in the roof. I also found a similar looking model from another brand (Ferplast) available on Amazon UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferplast-Litter-Tray-Cosmic-Outdoor/dp/B01LZEGN0S

With a litter collecting mat outside the box, there's very little cat litter anywhere else in our house.


I can't imagine myself ever getting a self cleaning litter box for two reasons. First because nothing is 100% failsafe, what if it malfunctions?
This is a video of a cat getting its head stuck in the poop section of a self cleaning cat litter box! Fortunately someone was home, heard that something was wrong, and dismantled the box:

According to the info I've found, the cat wasn't harmed, only very shaken up. But what if someone hadn't been home? Perhaps gone for hours?
I could easily imagine such an experience leading to a cat refusing to go anywhere near a cat litter box for a long time afterwards. Worst case scenario, you could end up with a cat who is both injured, and refuses to put as much as a paw on cat litter/in a cat litter box ever again.

It's easy to think the likelihood for it to happen to your cat/cats is low, but the cat owners something like that have happened to, presumably also used to think that.

The second thing is that some years ago when one of my now late cats got sick, the 1 main sign of something being wrong was that her litter clumps with pee became much, much wetter than normal. It was difficult enough to find out which one of the cats that was the "culprit" in a multi-cat household. I off her pee had been shuffled away or disappeared down through some grid, and thereby sort of gotten mixed up together with the other cat's "achievements", I wonder how long it would've taken me to figure out she was sick.


By the way, I know they say that World's Best Cat Litter (and maybe also Cat's Best which I use) can be flushed down toilets, but personally I think they only say that because it sells. Even if the cat litter itself dissolves in water, and doesn't clog up the pipes, it still leaves cat poop, and presumably traces of cat pee, in the system, and none of the sewage treatment plants I've heard about are meant to deal with anything other than human urine, feces, and toilet paper.
Not to mention that most water closets/flush toilets use drinking water every time you flush them. I feel guilty enough flushing my WC after that I've used it, it have never crossed my mind to flush it a few times extra every day to just to get rid of cat pee + poop.