Poll - Details on your litter box setup.

Two cats, two litter boxes with lids.

They are silver with matching pad for the litter to come off as they exit.
Both pans are lined with liner bags and I use the store brand clumping
litter, unscented with baking soda and then throw in a little more Arm and
Hammer litter box powder. It smells nice and since we live in a small
apartment, it takes away the litter smell. The two litter pans are at the
corner, side by side at the end of the hall way, directly across from the
bathroom door. I give the cats privacy and hide the boxes with a wooden
folding screen that holds photos. Five per panel I think it is. The bottom
row are cat related photos for them to look at. They share both litters.

--
..oO rach Oo.


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Users:
4 x female (spayed)
2 x male (neutered)
1 x male (neutered, diabetic)

Facilities:
4 x Sterlite-type plastic storage box downstairs (tiled laundry)
1 x standard plastic litter box upstairs (tiled bath #2)

Collection medium:
Petco 'Pet Gold Plus' clay-based scoopable w/baking soda (30-lb refillable
buckets)

Preparation:
Depth maintained at 4-5 inches; surface groomed (tattle-tale)

Tracking management:
Broom + dust pan

Extraction:
Slotted HDPE scooper

Schedule:
Start scooping @ 04:00 hrs, stop scooping @ 23:00 hrs
Scoop on first sight; no job too small

One cat. For the longest time, she had one litterbox, plastic liner, a mat to
catch some of the stray litter, and Fresh Step clumping litter. Then I got it
in my head to get her a second litter box, so I got a big, flat "under the
bed" plastic storage container and use that as a litterbox. I use a torn
garbage bag to line it. I also switched to another clumping litter that isn't
scented, as the perfume was annoying me. I'd just as soon my cat not smell
like there's a flower stuck in her butt.

Everyone will castigate me for this, but I clean out the litterbox on about a
weekly basis. Oscar has never had a problem with this. Of course, now that
she has two litterboxes but they're still getting cleaned this often, they're
effectively half as messy for her.

--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
garbage bag to line it. I also switched to another clumping
litter that isn't scented, as the perfume was annoying me.
I'd just as soon my cat not smell like there's a flower stuck
in her butt.

Mind you, I'd rather a cat's butt smell like a flower than a flower
smell like a cat's butt.



Everyone will castigate me for this, but I clean out the litterbox
on about a weekly basis.

Doesn't this - and I shall use a technical term here - stink like
Beelzebub's arse the morning after a night on the Guinness?

Chez Stevethepsycho we have two locales for the presentation of odorous
offerings, and two depositers of said offerings. One vast box (in a
bathroom) contains Nature's Miracle litter (flushable), the other
smaller box Fresh Step Stinky Cat (not flushable - it gets thrown into
a convenient forest). Scoopage is 2x/day for each box, and the boxes
are cleaned (bleach) when the stars are correctly aligned, probably
every 6-8 weeks for the Fresh Step box (it's used most frequently), and
far less often for t'other box.

Steve.

On 2005-02-14, Steve G penned:

Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
garbage bag to line it. I also switched to another clumping litter that
isn't scented, as the perfume was annoying me. I'd just as soon my cat not
smell like there's a flower stuck in her butt.

Mind you, I'd rather a cat's butt smell like a flower than a flower smell
like a cat's butt.

Sure. I think my actual problem wasn't that I associated the smell with
flowers, but rather that I associated it with the litterbox, so it's like
having Oscar come up and say, "Guess what, mom? I just pooped!" constantly.

The perfumed dust from the litter also annoyed me. Then again, regular old
perfume annoys me, so I guess this was to be expected.

Everyone will castigate me for this, but I clean out the litterbox on about
a weekly basis.

Doesn't this - and I shall use a technical term here - stink like
Beelzebub's arse the morning after a night on the Guinness?

No, it really doesn't. The only time her litterbox stank was when I bought
her a bag of some form of Purina. Both boxes are in the basement with no lid,
so maybe it's simply the fact that there's a lot of open space in which the
air can circulate, rather than the more typical bathroom scenario. I don't
know. The only thing that stinks in the basement is our hockey gear; we lay
it out on the basement floor to dry. Of course, Oscar finds eau d'hockey
quite tantalizing, and she'll often crawl into DH's bag just after he's
emptied it. (Mine doesn't stink quite as badly because I *always* dry my
stuff; DH tends to forget and leave the bag in his trunk for a week.)

I do try to clean it more often, but the honest answer is once a week. But
Oscar seems perfectly okay with this and doesn't read me the riot act about
it. Both boxes are fairly deep and full, so it's not like she's standing
directly on her on waste when she has to go.

Chez Stevethepsycho we have two locales for the presentation of odorous
offerings, and two depositers of said offerings. One vast box (in a
bathroom) contains Nature's Miracle litter (flushable), the other smaller
box Fresh Step Stinky Cat (not flushable - it gets thrown into a convenient
forest). Scoopage is 2x/day for each box, and the boxes are cleaned (bleach)
when the stars are correctly aligned, probably every 6-8 weeks for the Fresh
Step box (it's used most frequently), and far less often for t'other box.

Twice a day! Well, that *would* give me a use for all the damn plastic bags
we have lying about from grocery shopping. That is, it would do so if Oscar
hadn't barfed all over our collection of bags after I let her eat a little
(okay, a lot) too much freeze-dried chicken.


--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

in article , Monique Y. Mudama at
wrote on 2/14/05 6:34 PM:

On 2005-02-14, Steve G penned:

Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
garbage bag to line it. I also switched to another clumping litter that
isn't scented, as the perfume was annoying me. I'd just as soon my cat not
smell like there's a flower stuck in her butt.

Mind you, I'd rather a cat's butt smell like a flower than a flower smell
like a cat's butt.

Sure. I think my actual problem wasn't that I associated the smell with
flowers, but rather that I associated it with the litterbox, so it's like
having Oscar come up and say, "Guess what, mom? I just pooped!" constantly.

The perfumed dust from the litter also annoyed me. Then again, regular old
perfume annoys me, so I guess this was to be expected.


This is why I went to Arm & Hamour. Less dust and no perfume!!!!!! Yeah!!!

Everyone will castigate me for this, but I clean out the litterbox on about
a weekly basis.

Doesn't this - and I shall use a technical term here - stink like
Beelzebub's arse the morning after a night on the Guinness?



Twice a day! Well, that *would* give me a use for all the damn plastic bags
we have lying about from grocery shopping. That is, it would do so if Oscar
hadn't barfed all over our collection of bags after I let her eat a little
(okay, a lot) too much freeze-dried chicken.


That's what my bags go for. but I mostly scoop once a day.

Two cats. One box. Uncovered. Scooped once a day. Nice and easy. We had
two for a while, during the hellacious cats getting-to-know-each-other
phase and the occaisional accident. But they bonded, started using the
boxes interchangeably, so we got rid of one and we've been
accident-free ever since.