Where do you keep the litter tray?

[longtermsinglemummy]

We've always kept it in the utility room. Bed house and we don't have one so it's in the downstairs loo. I was hoping they'd stop using it and go out more but if anything they're using it more.

But it just seems a bit grim having it where it is. I though about getting one that doesn't look like a litter tray, a bit like this one:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009NEYY9W/ref=cmswwrsmsscapii_rl0qybYXKGXNK

But it's an investment and they might hate one with a lid on?

Any ideas?

Ours is in the kitchen. We have nowhere else to put it.

Kitchen, can't put it anywhere else as young ds can get to it.

In the ensuite bathroom to the cat's bedroom. That sounds either ridiculously grand or like extreme crazy-cat-lady behaviour but we live in a little two-bedroomed house with an odd layout and put the cat in our spare room (no DCs) when we got her home from the shelter. It seems as good a place as any to keep the litter tray though as that room never gets used.

Fuzzy That does sound very grand! I love that they have their own en-suite

Ours is in the utility room now but in my last two properties (both flats if it makes a difference) it was in the hall.

I absolutely wouldn't want it in the kitchen so the bathroom would be might last resort.

Neighbours of ours have got the same house as us and have put a cat flap into the door for the cupboard under the stairs and the litter tray lives in there. Our cats are to stupid to work a cat flap though!

crayfish I haven't got round to having a cat flap installed, mainly because it's another investment (would need to be in glass door).

I think I'll have to keep it where it is, but no one uses the downstairs loo now because of the litter tray! Plus it needs changing every week, but that's another story.

Ours are in the bathroom.

Ours is in the kitchen. It's a covered large cat loo but has no door because cat bolts out after having a poo (why?!) and took the door with him.

We find the odour absorbing pads are useless but prefer not to see the cats poo face so glad to fork out more for covered loos.

Ours is in the utility room but utility room is middle of weird layout house-am going to knock a hole under stairs to maybe put litter tray in & curtain over but hoping new puss will go out soon. Was also thinking of putting litter tray outside cat flap & having a little enclosure there. I really dislike the smell of cat poo!

Oh, you can put cat flaps in walls too-that's my next plan!

In the bathroom next to the loo. Poos get scooped as soon as we notice them, and the litter is changed daily. We don't put much in so it's not a problem, cost-wise. She got used to this regime in the shelter before we got her, and seems happy with it.

Poos get scooped straight into the loo and flushed, I should have said. Quick squirt of Neutradol, minimal whiffyness.

We have two bathrooms, and a litter box in each. The cats are lazy sods though and barely use the top floor litter box, as they can't be bothered to walk that far apparently. It means the main litter box needs more attention more frequently. Ah well.

People who put the poos down the loo, what litter do you use? I've never been sure if you could flush ours, it's the wooden pellet kind.

Wooden pellet kind. But I give the scoop a little shoogle so only a wee bit goes into the loo. We've had no problems.

If you use cat's best wees can also be flushed

Top if the stairs inside an old bedside table,though the drawers are long gone. She doesn't use it much.

We have a little cubby hole under the stairs. It's brilliant.

I've had a side extension built especially to keep litter trays in (it's fitted out as a downstairs shower room, but that was never intended to be its real function)

We have one in our en suite and one in the utility....its now in a box that slides under the sink and we call it Ernie's en-suite.

He hasn't used if for around six months

We have one in the empty fireplace. Poo gets scooped and bagged/binned daily. I change the litter twice a week.

In the downstairs loo. Works well, except constantly reminding visitors not to shut the loo door after they've come out of it!

Had to take the tray out of the kitchen as Mr T couldn't be given access to the kitchen overnight when he was younger (due to lots of nocturnal shenanigans in there). He goes out during the day (no cat flap) and in the warmer months did nearly all of his business outside, but now its cold he prefers to hold it in until he comes in for the evening, rather than put his little furry behind near a cold flowerbed!

As for having a cat flap with a lid, I found it didn't do anything for the smell as Mr T wouldn't use it until we took the door flap off. We've now got rid of the lid altogether, though on ours the bottom section works fine as a normal open tray so not a complete waste.

Cupboard under the stairs which has a cat flap in the door.

Understairs cupboard, the layout of the house means it's not a problem leaving the door ajar.

In the bathroom - no space in the kitchen and nowhere else in the house. It's a small bathroom so the litter tray is right by the toilet. This leads to:

• Opening the bathroom door to discover cat waiting outside (if she's desperate, she'll scratch at the door).
• The door being opened by one of us while the other is in the bathroom (due to desperate scratching), so you share the bathroom with the cat.
• Waiting outside the bathroom until the cat has finished.

She won't go outside - one day she had been locked out all day, and when DH let her in, she dashed upstairs for an unusually long wee. The next house we buy needs to have a utility room for a separate cat bathroom!