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Where do you keep the litter tray?

37 replies

LobsterMoth · 02/03/2022 19:05

Any ideas where we could put our cat’s litter tray? It’s a terraced house and at the moment it’s in the kitchen/diner so not ideal. The hall way is too narrow and the downstairs loo too small.

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Isgooglebroken · 02/03/2022 19:12

Ours is by the kitchen bin. Not idea but we don’t have any other option other than the hallway by the front door and I don’t really want to be greeted by it every time I walk through the door even though it is a covered one.

tiredanddangerous · 02/03/2022 19:12

Ours is in the downstairs loo. Can you fit it in your bathroom?

MarthaJonesPhone · 02/03/2022 19:13

Small terrace, by the back door. No room anywhere else.

Whatsthestoryboringglory · 02/03/2022 19:20

We’ve turned the downstairs loo in to a utility room and put it in there. Small hole in the door for cat access and voilà!

Where do you keep the litter tray?
Whatsthestoryboringglory · 02/03/2022 19:21

…ignore the second picture which was obviously fat fingers! Reported for removal 🙄

Whatsthestoryboringglory · 02/03/2022 19:30

If your downstairs loo is too small, can you put it in a kitchen cupboard with a cat flap or hole in the door? Or get one of those litter trays disguised in a cabinet for the living room?

Lampface · 02/03/2022 19:31

We have one door to the garden in our living room and another door to the garden in a little porch. We have no use for the porch door so it lives in there, away from the rest of the house.

areyouseriousman · 02/03/2022 19:40

In the utility room. It's in the way a bit to be honest, we have to move it to get in to one of the cupboards, but it's so much better than previously when we've had it in the kitchen or in the hallway. I hated that visitors could see it! We have tried having it in the bathroom but the cats didn't like it there.

DeckTheHallsWithGin · 02/03/2022 19:42

One in the utility, one in the en suite. The buggers barely use them but I feel I have to have them as the furry fuckers are locked in overnight.

Crabbyboot · 02/03/2022 19:48

We keep ours in the lounge hidden behind a plant, because it's in the lounge it is kept immaculately clean. More so than when we kept it in our spare room because we couldn't see it. We use the litter that you can flush and scoop as soon as we see any wee.

BluerThanRobinsEggs · 02/03/2022 20:04

One in the utility room behind the door which now doesn't shut properly.

And one in the bedroom on the patch of carpet that one cat took to urinating on every time she was annoyed like twice a day

They have a cat flap but not fans of what they seem to be "bad" weather.

Zazdar · 02/03/2022 20:13

Outside the back door.

TheTurn0fTheScrew · 02/03/2022 20:18

dining room.
I know, I know, food hygiene, not nice smells etc. But we have a SMALL house and carpets everywhere downstairs apart from the kitchen (tiny) and dining room. In my defence it is very, very rarely used, and never for solids at all, but everytime I think about getting rid one of the buggers uses it and the clock resets. I check it daily nonetheless and change it as soon as it's use.

fairylightsandwaxmelts · 02/03/2022 20:27

In the living room.

We don't have space anywhere else. They need to be up high or else the dog helps himself Envy

LobsterMoth · 02/03/2022 20:30

“ Zazdar” that sounds like a good idea - does your cat go out to use it by the back door if it’s cold or rainy?

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fortunenookie · 02/03/2022 20:49

I have a cat flap in the kitchen door. Their food is in the utility room and there is another car flap leading from there in the internal door into the connected garage where they have three litter trays - one each

Zazdar · 02/03/2022 23:54

“ Zazdar” that sounds like a good idea - does your cat go out to use it by the back door if it’s cold or rainy?

He’s never used it, but it’s there if he needs it. It’s under cover by the way so it doesn’t get wet.

AwkwardPaws27 · 03/03/2022 00:06

One on the landing, one under the sink in bathroom.
We should really have three (1 per cat + a spare) but no space & younger cat does have the option of going outside in my flowerbeds...

mrsbyers · 03/03/2022 00:07

Mine is kept in my husbands bathroom

Logoplanter · 03/03/2022 07:28

One in the bathroom and two in the utility room. All get used. They are currently indoor cats but I'm hoping as the weather improves they'll be able to explore outside and we can cut down to two trays and get rid of the one in the bathroom 🤞

Wartywart · 03/03/2022 08:01

In the kitchen by the back door. Not ideal and I hate having a litter tray at all. Previous cat always went outside, but current one doesn't really like going out at all - any excuse - too windy, too cold, raining, too dark - and has done a couple of poos in the house along with a wet patch on the bed, so we've given in and got her a litter tray.

123tigger · 03/03/2022 08:18

Elderly cat one under the stairs not ideal but not sure where else to put it. Another on landing which is used occasionally. Did try remove it but cat had an accident. Due to getting stressed with a dig in the house not wanting to go downstairs.

TheDoveFromAboveCooCoo · 03/03/2022 08:24

Covered tray with carbon filter in the kitchen and a second smaller tray in the downstairs bathroom.

DH doesn't allow cats upstairs (the meanie) so that's the only place for them!

SedentaryCat · 03/03/2022 08:27

We have a covered one in the corner of the living room. The cats only use it when the weather is bad - and sometimes if they are in overnight. Otherwise they go in the back garden.

We tried removing it after a long period of non-use, but one of our cats had 'issues' with this and ruined the hall carpet...

So it's there, mainly as a security blanket for the boy cat.

Toddlerteaplease · 03/03/2022 08:31

Kitchen. I've got nowhere else for it. I designed my new kitchen around where the litter tray was going to go!

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