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Cat Forum / General Topics / June 2006Litter box question
For a long time we had two female cats and the litter box was scooped a couple of times a week and life was good. We picked up a male kitten on the way back from vacation last summer and lately have been having problems. Instead of clumping the litter is just soaked. The only thing coming out is solids. We have one litter box that is about 24'' x 14''. We are using Tidy Cats Crystals but are looking to change. Any recommendations? Should we have more than one litter box for three cats. Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions. Steve Ignots > For a long time we had two female cats and the litter box was scooped > a couple of times a week and life was good. We picked up a male [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > for three cats. Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions. Steve > Ignots If you are using clumping litter, you should be scooping DAILY, not "a couple of times a week". Don't know about you, but I wouldn't like like to walk barfoot through a sandy beach that was littered with feces and pee! I don't think your cats do either. That could also be why it's not 'clumping' anymore - pee overload! You don't mention whether ANY of your cats are spayed/neutered, so I'm only assuming that they are. It's also been said on several different web sites that you should have the same number of litterboxes as you do cats, plus one. That means that you would need a total of 4 litterboxes. However, we have 12 and only room for 7 litterboxes in out small home, and it works out, so you might get by with just 2. Invest in a Littermaid litter box. I've had one for 6 years with no problems from the cats or box. The trick is to actually read the instruction manual and use a QUALITY hard clumping litter. I have an old paint brush I sweep the runners with each time I empty the receptacle. I don't toss the receptacle box with each cleaning, I just empty it into a plastic grocery sack and toss it in the garbage. Tossing the box as suggested is way too expensive and unnecessary. You'll also find you use less litter in the long run. The plastic receptacle box lasts about 4-6 months before it starts to crack and I empty that about 2-3 times a week. No cat box smell, they always have a pristine litter box and your fussing with it is minimal. Val > For a long time we had two female cats and the litter box was scooped a > couple of times a week and life was good. We picked up a male kitten on [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > recommendations? Should we have more than one litter box for three > cats. Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions. Steve Ignots [offering a suggestion about litter boxes] > Invest in a Littermaid litter box. For less than half the price of the Littermaid one can purchase the Omega Paw rolling litter box. All one has to do to clean it is roll it over and then back and all of the clumped litter is now in a scoop ready to be emptied. There are no motors and such and the box is covered so there is no unsightly litter to look at. If you use flushable clumping litter the contents of the scoop can be dumped into the toilet and flushed. I bought one of these a few months ago and can only say that I am totally satisfied.  SignatureJames Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@mac.com At the recommendatin of a friend who does rescue and has 20+ indoor cats at any given time, we tried Feline Pine. We'll never use anything else again. It's more expensive per bag but last MUCH longer, ultimately cheaper but if we rave too much about it being economical, they'll raise the price. No perfume, just scoop the poop daily and shake the broken down dust (from urine) through the grate in the bottom to the pan below, and empty it. Wash/rinse the bottom pan every 3 days or so. Much cheaper and biodegradeable and less messy. We have three kitties and love it. We are also using the "Pet Pine" version for our quaker parrot now and love it too. She's no longer pining for the fjords. (Sorry, had to). They have a special box and a special scoop--worth buying, worth trying. > [offering a suggestion about litter boxes] > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > few > months ago and can only say that I am totally satisfied. I have 8 indoor cats (was showing and breeding them for awhile) and 6 litter boxes. After trying most of the brands of litter out there, I use Worlds Best Cat Litter multi-cat formula (clumping and flushable). It is made from corn after the corn oil, etc. has been removed. It works great! Most of my breeder friends use this as well. I find that using the jumbo litter boxes seem to work best--they feel less cramped. I scoop the regular litter boxes daily, but I also have Litter Robots (http://www.litter-robot.com) which lightens my daily scooping chores. The "deposit" drawer is lined with inexpensive, standard, small trash bags (I pick them up at Costo). When using a scooping litter, it works best to remove the wastes daily before the cats can break up the clumps of urine and ruin the whole batch of litter. Hope this helps! Lisa.... :-) > For a long time we had two female cats and the litter box was scooped a > couple of times a week and life was good. We picked up a male kitten on [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > recommendations? Should we have more than one litter box for three > cats. Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions. Steve Ignots |
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