![]() Whether you have one cat or three, these five steps to living with a litter box will hopefully help your pet and owner relationships. Bonus is that Aris will have more than one box to use and it will always be clean. In my opinion it is 100% worth it to ditch all of the tools and steps I used to need to feel clean. All three cats use the ScoopFree box now, and I’ve already decided to purchase another. The litter seems to trap almost all smell, and solid waste is shuffled into a closed box so it’s scent-free as well. She took to the box and hasn’t looked back. After 5 minutes (a wait time I set on the machine) the box scooped itself and my litter box woes are a thing of the past. Then one day I came home to find Aris finishing up in the new box. For about 2 weeks Aris kept up her shenanigans. I opted for grey, installed the special crystal litter and the litter trapping mat (yay!), then waited. The box is a good size for my large cats, and comes in purple or grey. What I will say, is that after hundreds of dollars in damage to clothes, rugs and furniture, the ScoopFree Ultra Self Cleaning Litter Box was my last hope before rehoming Aris. I’ll refrain from going into the detail about how massively annoyed and grossed out I was about this. As you can imagine, I cannot be there to scoop every use of each of the boxes, so she ended up going outside of the box. It was sort of my last-ditch effort to keep Aris one of my older cats, who in her advanced age has decided that she will not use any litter box that has any trace of use. But about 2 months ago ScoopFree sent me a automatic cat litter box to try. All in all it is fast, clean and efficient.Īlright, so all of these are really great tips that I used to use regularly on all of my cat boxes. I remove the waste, spray the area, wait 5 minutes for it to disinfect and then wipe. I use a disinfecting cleaner and some paper towels that I keep near every box. I’ll find it next the box and clean it up, but with a toddler around I like to be sanitary about things. Sometimes my long-hair kitty Aris tracks a bit of waste out of the box on her fur. This does cut down on the tracking, but sometimes I still find it in the weirdest places.Īccidents happen. I also keep a small dollar store brush and dustpan near each box to clean up after I scoop. So, I use a high quality litter catching mat in front of all of my litter boxes. ![]() Bonus if you can get a small wastebasket with a lid, for scent reasons.Īs mentioned above I despise cat litter all over the place. That means less cat poo hanging out in my kitchen garbage, and less hauling altogether. This way I can scoop it every day (or every couple of days) and only empty the garbage on garbage day. I keep a dedicated garbage can for each cat box. Hauling used cat litter through your home each day is grosser. I can’t believe how many years I spent suffering with dollar store litter scoopers, now that I have a sturdy metal one for each box – I’ll never go back! It can be cleaned, it doesn’t bend, and it’ll last for a long time.Ĭleaning a box is gross. It is doubly bad if you’re trying to use a flimsy plastic scoop that bends instead of actually scooping. I got mine at Target, but this type seems pretty common at most big box stores. The enclosed space is a plus too, although opening it up to clean is sometimes a pain. ![]() I change the filters every 4 weeks, and I do think that it helps keep the smell down. I like the kind with the charcoal air filters on the top. 5 Steps to Living with a Litter boxīe sure to get a large, lidded litter box. It all ads up to these 5 steps to living with a litter box. So over the years I’ve developed quite a few tips and tricks. It isn’t just the smell though, the litter! Ugh, I hate those tiny little rocks collecting on my socks, on my rugs and sometimes in my bedsheets. With 3 cats we have 4 litter boxes and trust me, the smell adds up. ![]() Her change in food resulted in a turn-for-the-worse in terms of litte rbox smell. I’ve talked a bit before about our kitty Sophie, who had some pretty scary health stuff that ended up being related to her diet. On thing I will not accept is a gross litter box. I accept that their version of love means stepping on my head in the middle of the night, walking on my keyboard during the day and being totally opposed to cuddles except when it is inconvenient for me. ![]()
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