Where do you put litter tray if you have no utility room?

[Kittykat86]

So I don't have a utility room and have just got a kitten. I literally don't know where to put her litter tray. I don't really like he idea of it sitting there in view in the kitchen , but where else could I put it? I was thinking of getting a little cat hut type thing and putting it inside that and have that in the kitchen.
Ideally I would love her to be able to go to the toilet outside and let me know when she needs to go but thats just wishful thinking at the moment. Plus she will probably be an inside cat anyway.

I think the most important things are that it’s a) away from food & b) kept clean & doesn’t smell.

After that, just put it wherever’s convenient.

Bathroom/downstairs loo would be my first choice but my bathrooms are teeny (and downstairs one is a wet room with a heated floor!).

Cat litter (even if it says flushable) shouldn't be flushed, neither should cat poo as our water treatment processes can't deal with the parasites and pathogens.

Mine's in the hall at the foot of the stairs. It's not ideal - very visible and go past all the time. There is a downstairs loo but she has tendencies to go wherever she likes so I wouldn't trust her to bother with it if it was in the bathroom.

Same here!

Bathroom

Having seen the photo, you can put the litter tray in my house.

In the hall. Gives me options, he can be locked in the kitchen and have access to outside through the catflap, I can lock him this side of the kitchen if there are things in there I don’t want him poking about in or I am working in there and he is being a pain, or he can have full access to the whole house but the catflap is locked to prevent him going out. And there is also option 4 when he is locked outside at the back if I am going in and out of the house at the front / there are work people in.
Cat parenting is hard work sometimes

Ahhhh!

Oh yeah......her little trays at my house!
I lovvvve herrrr

Dining area of kitchen diner right next to cat flap!
Rarely used now
your kitten is beautiful ❤️❤️😂

The WFH office. Keeps all the stuff I don't like having to deal with in one room.

We have an outdoor cat enclosure for our indoor cats. Part of it is undercover so we out a kitty litter tray there plus we dig up part of the garden area and add sand because no cat can resist a sandbox! They have a cat door so can go in and out as they please.

You are to late ladies, I put first my house!!

Mine is under the stairs - it's visible but it's literally the only place it can go - bathroom is too small. I have one that the cat climbs into from the top - the flap ones still let them track litter all over the floor. I'm always scooping the poop out and change the litter every 3rd day to minimise odour.

I removed the front of the unit underneath the basin in the downstairs loo, and replaced it with a little curtain. I put the litter tray and everything litter-related in there. At first I kept the corner of the curtain pinned back. Once MrCat was used to it I let the curtain fall back and he just pushed it out of the way.

I had intended to put a proper curtain rod in, but MrCat arrived sooner than expected, so I just staple-gunned the fabric in place - and it's still there 4 years later. Just as the litter tray is still there, but he hasn't used it since he started going outdoors.

I’ve never had a litter tray in the utility room. Surely that’s for clean clothes?

My cats go through the cat flap into the garage and have puppy pads that they use in there.

We just had to put them where they fit. One is on the stairs (we have a quarter staircase so it isn't as weird as it sounds!) And the other is in the lounge/diner. I always wanted to do the cupboard with a catflap idea but we never got round to it. One cat is fussy (he is known to pee on the floor from time to time) so I don't think keeping them hidden would help.

One is in the downstairs loo, the back up one is on the landing tucked under the stairs that go up to the third floor. They rarely use the back up one.

Cats prefer their litter trays, cat food and cat water to be in different locations from each other. Mine have their food in the utility room and their water fountain in the kitchen.

Surely utility rooms are for dirty clothes, once they are washed/dried, they go into wardrobes or chest of drawers. Not everyone has a garage, and aren't puppy pads non biodegradable. You can't put cat faeces down a human toilet,it's not allowed.

My first rescue had her tray on the landing as she liked it being near her "first" room. The "stray" has hers in the hallway as that's nearer to her exit for fleeing (back door). Neither would want to go into another room off the main thoroughfare as that's extra effort and cats don't do effort. Mine don't anyway 😂

EDIT - I clean them as soon as I notice it's been used so there are minimal smells.

One in the bathroom, one in the hall outside the bathroom and two in the office. They tend to only use the office ones as "overflow" trays for when the other two are not clean enough (e.g when I'm away overnight or similar) so day to day there is no smell in there.

They prefer the bathroom one the most and tend to go when I do. One insists on eye contact as we both pee which took quite a bit of getting used to.

Ones under the stairs with a cat flap into it. Ones in my study upstairs.

We go through lots of cat litter ( wood pellets ) because of very frequent changes . Do have a utility but keep it in a corner of the kitchen which is near the utility but far away from cooking / food storage etc .

We have one in the kitchen but it’s a big room and right at the other side from food. He’s shut in there overnight. We also have one in the utility and one in the hall. Poo is scooped immediately if possible, or ASAP if we’re out/it’s overnight, and litter is turned over and topped up after a wee, whole thing binned and disinfected once a week (twice in warm weather). It only smells immediately after he’s done a poo really.

Our previous cat toileted in the garden but this boy comes in to use the tray then goes back out.