How to own a cat without the house smelling like a litter tray?

[PaperDoves]

Just that really. We would all love to add a cat to our family but the main thing putting me off is the smell. The Internet has a few suggestions:

1. Scoop the tray at least twice a day
2. Pine pellets and a sifting litter tray may help compared to clay litter

Anything else? Any and all hints and tricks are more than welcome, it's the only thing holding me back!

I change the tray completely every time my cat uses it. Saying that i put a tray liner, then an sheet of newspaper followed by a small scoop of litter. It doesn't cost any more than doing the tray once a week. It never smells.

Thank you so much everyone. I discovered the basin pedestal in the downstairs cloakroom is just decorative and can be removed, so we'll be putting the tray there.

Putting together several different ideas, I think we'll be getting compostable liners, and use some kind of natural (corn or wood) clumping, flushable litter, so we can easily scoop and flush every time he uses the tray. Then completely empty the tray daily.

It would mean using a much smaller amount of litter daily, not sure if that would work for clumping litters?

With clumping you usually have it very deep else the pee sticks to the bottom of the tray.

You could just use pellets and change daily.

Cat litter and cat faeces shouldn't be flushed.

It doesn't matter what the packet says, just like with 'flushable' wipes.

My cat is only on wet food (pouches from LIdl or Aldi, whatever is avaiable).
About 4years ago she was on mixed diet dry +pouches her poop stink the house, but since we change for wet only food her poop is no longer stinking one.

After every toilet visit I scoop the litter tray, and roghly every 10 days I clean and change the litter tray properly.
No smell at home.

@PaperDoves cat poo and litter shouldn't be flushed down the toilet - you need to bag it and put it in the black bin.

@PaperDoves if you flush cat litter you will end up with a stink unrivalled by any cat litter when it backs up. Please don’t.

I don’t think the litter tray smells unless Dcat has just done a poo! Then of course we scoop straight away.

We keep our litter tray in the downstairs loo under the sink. Just have to remember to leave the door open.

Dcat is the best thing ever so would definitely recommend getting a cat to anyone😻

Cat litter freshener. I use it very generously.

I had a cat with 6 kittens once (as a cat fosterer) and my house has never smelled like a litter tray.

Huge flat tray + a covered jumbo tray
Cats Best Litter deep layer

Out malr buries his but the gemale leaves hers blantantly sitting and she scrapes the inside of the lidded tray to let us know . (Usually followed by " can someone do the tray "?)
Mine have a catdoor but they charge inside to pee/pooh then go out again.

I;m not going to lie , they do whiff a bit but we loves the little varmints .

Out malr buries his but the gemale
should read our male /the female

You can't flush the flushable litter? 😟 Even the corn pellets? That's disappointing.

Adding compostable nappy bags to the order...

@PaperDoves No. Do. Not. Flush. Cat. Litter or flushable wipes.

No, only human waste and toilet paper down the toilet.

Please don't flush cat litter down the loo, of any variety.

I’ve been flushing it for years. Never backs up!
You do need to break up the clumps into the water (I scoop into dog poo bags first, and squeeze the clumps inside the bag); I also keep a bath back brush with a long handle with rounded end to poke down the loo in case one gets stuck.
I use Cat’s Best and Greenwood’s plant fibre litter, very deep in a jumbo sized lidded tray. 3 cats, no smell.

Give them good quality high meat content food, not the cheap McDonald’s equivalents. I have an indoor cat, he does nice (!) tidy poos that are easy to scoop and don’t smell unlike the stuff his breeder had him eating.

I’ve been flushing it for years. Never backs up!

Oh dear.

Just to say dcat is on a mixture of good quality dry and wet food, his poo is no different to when he was on raw, but I couldn’t keep doing that so switched and poos are still stink free.

@GiantKitten so you bag the poo, then squish the poo in your he bag, then hen empty the contents down the loo, and then have a poo brush to push it around the bend when it doesn’t flush ….
please do not say that you reuse the bag.

once you’ve bagged it, just tie a knot in the bag and throw it in the bin. All you are doing is making a mess, being a burden on the sewage system.

www.vettimes.co.uk/to-flush-or-not-to-flush/

in case anyone needs telling why you do not flush cat litter in the uk.

3 Ps, nothing else should be flushed.

From somebody who works for Thames Water.

You have to break it all down by hand and have a special brush "in case it gets stuck", yet you think it's a good idea to flush it down the toilet anyway? Really?😬

I have 4 cats, 3 litter trays and it doesn't smell. I use wood or paper litter at the base of the tray with the cheapest supermarket stuff on top.