Two cats, two boxes. I’ve started lining one of them recently.
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[li]How often do you scoop?[/li][/quote]
Every one to two days, but it depends. As I’ve noted here before my cats are weird in that they preferentially pee more in one box and poop more in the other. So one box gets scooped more often, the other one stirred ( I use silica crystals ).
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[li]Do you periodically dump out all the old litter and replace it with fresh?[/li][/quote]
Yep, it’s necessary with silica. The “pee box” gets dumped with high frequency, every week+ maybe. It’s also the one I line. The “poop box” maybe every three weeks.
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Nope, never top off. I don’t lose enough in the scooping to make it necessary.
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[li]Do your feline overlords just use the toilet like civilized beings?[/li][/quote]
I have three cats, two large boxes. Most vets will recommend you have one more litter box than the number of cats. I have an apartment with limited space, so I’m just using two big ones.
We also use non-clumping pine based litter. I had a massive asthma attack one day after cleaning out the clay-based litter box, so pine is it for us. Unfortunately, the pine doesn’t clump, it just dissolves. So we clean the whole shebang out every week. It’s impossible to scoop pee, but the occasional nasty poop we will scoop out and flush.
It works out well for us. The cats let us know when things are getting too dirty by flinging poo out of the box or pooping right NEXT to the boxes.
I use a clumping litter and try to scoop every 2-3 days, but I’ve gone as long as 2 weeks without scooping (extenuating circumstances) and he never balked at continuing to use the box. I top off with new litter whenever I scoop, and I try to dump and replace at least once a month.
Two cats, two boxes. They don’t like to share, although they both like one box more than the other, so it leads to problems. One of the cats (we don’t know who) will kindly let us know that the favourite box is full by peeing beside it. We have a plastic mat on the floor which makes that very easy to clean.
Generally we clean the boxes out every 2 days or so. We are just too lazy to do it more frequently. We don’t regularly dump them and clean them entirely, but will do it when we think it needs it. We use Maxx Cat multi-cat litter.
Both boxes are covered boxes. Part of it was for ourselves; in our old apartment we had to keep the box in a corner of our living room (it was nasty, but there really was nowhere else) but mostly it’s because our older cat is a corner-pisser. She has never used the centre of a box to pee in; always the corners, and unless the box is covered, that has led to her aiming in such a way that half the pee ended up on the outside of the box.
2 cats, Biscuit and Snickers, and 1 litter box. I scoop twice a day, once as soon as I get up and once as soon as I get home from work. I use clumping litter, and I change out the whole box every few weeks or so, as well as giving the box a good scrubbing. We keep our litter box in the laundy room, which is right off of our kitchen, so I scoop more often than I would if it was in the bathroom or somewhere that the smell might not be so notciable.
8 cats in at night , out in the day depending
1 big covered inside box with wood stove pellets
1 medium litter covered box in the pump/cat house with heat, cheap clay
One medium covered litter box in the ‘time out’ cage, heat pad in a barrel when needed.
2 cats prefer inside.
2 cats have to go to the pump house at night due to personality conflicts or very seldom 4 others go out so they can have an inside night.
2 cats can stay either place.
All get a time out on occasion.
Only the handicapped cat always uses the litter box. (inside)
7 of the cats are drops or rescues.
Wood stove pellets work good, smell little and carpet fresh helps.
I scoop the inside box 6 days a week average. Full change 1-2 week interval, wash out 2-3 changes in between.
Pump hose box is scooped 1 to 2 times a week. Dumped and refill 2-4 weeks, depending on weather and usage.
98% of cat business is outside unless there is a protest going on. Then kitchen sink splash rug, bath mat, dirty clothes on floor…
At home, Boris is fine with his one box. He’s pretty low maintenance and issue free with these things.
At my girlfriend’s, the two offenders, Emmy and Towelfish, get their box scooped out twice a way (once in the morning, once when I get home). Emmy has issues with the bathroom and before I was around, had a covered litterbox and decided she didn’t want to use it anymore so she would have a few spots in the house she abused.
I use scoopable/clumping litter as Libby is a champion pee-er and pine just wasn’t as easy to keep clean for her I found
I scoop every day when I get in from work and I change the box and scrub it out once a week.
Libby is strickly and indoor cat so I try to make her environment as clean as possible. She has only had one accident when she had an upset tummy and she was an inch from making it in the box. Poor thing looked mortified.
The girls tend to use one box for pee and the other for poo. We scoop every other day, and change out the litter every 10 days or so. The girls have never had an accident, but they have peed on the wife’s bathroom rug out of pique. Basic Freshstep Non-Clumping works just fine.
Once every other day. Maybe every two days depending.
Once a month
Generally when I scoop, I always add a little bit more.
I don’t understand this. This whole cat thing is new to me, so I’m going to go with no? I dunno.
Cats aren’t allowed outside in my apartment complex. So he is strictly indoor.
Though off topic for a second (and maybe this is a whole new thread) but I am not sure how much long I am going to keep him. (Fenway) In the last week he has turned into cujo, but a cat. Bitting me and lunging at me. It is getting scary.
Five cats, four boxes. All are scooped daily with additional litter added as needed. Periodically, all are dumped & cleaned with all-new litter added, probably four times a year. I’d love to toilet train them, but they have proven to be far better at training me to do their bidding instead.
One of the cats is still working through the “carefree stray” thing and periodically uses the outside world, but it’s been a very cold winter so we may not see too much of that behavior in the future.
3 cats, 3 covered boxes (2 Booda domes and a regular style covered box). They all get scooped daily, and I replace the litter about every 2 weeks. Once a month I disinfect them. They use the square box less often than the domes, which are mostly split between modes of excretion. The square box seems to be the one exception - I guess it’s the catch-all box for when the preferred dome is occupied.
They all go inside - none of my cats are allowed out of doors. They are all well-mannered about using the box for the most part. Bitey developed a UTI when she was younger and she didn’t completely give up the behavioral problems that go along with it. Her checkups come out fine - she just developed a habit. Fortunately, it isn’t often she slips up.
I’m puzzled why people with clumping litter are changing it periodically. I mean, the loose litter that hasn’t clumped to anything is still untained and just like new litter, so why throw it out? I have three cats and one large box, scoop daily. Never had to do anything more than likft out the clumps and doots.
Because there are often a few bits of dirty litter that break off from the main clump. Or clumps that get broken up by subsequent cats digging around. Since they’ve used up their absorbing power, these little bits accumulate in the box until there’s nothing left but stinky litter that won’t clump.
How many cats and how many litter boxes do you have? 2 big cats
How often do you scoop?
**I have an automatic box, it scoops after every use. I check it once a day to make sure it’s working well and not clogged up. I empty the recepticle once a week. **
Do you periodically dump out all the old litter and replace it with fresh?
**I do, about once every 6 weeks. **
Do you just add as needed?
**During the weekly empty, I check the litter level. **
I used to have one cat/one box - it got completely dumped and replaced once per week. I never scooped.
What Pullet said. Also, in my rectangular box, pee accumulates in the corners, which causes more breakage (not as much an issue in the domes). More breakage = less clumping power. I notice feces dessicates much better in fresh litter.
Two cats, used to be two boxes but since we moved to a smaller apartment there’s just one. Ideally it gets scooped every night.
I wish we could switch to a covered box, as we have issues with litter (and occasionally poo) getting strewn about and tracked around the apartment. Unfortunately, one of our cats is fairly large, and the other prefers to stand with three paws on the edge of the box when he uses it. I just have to keep a broom and dustpan near the box at all times, alas …
This is the same as me, except I do full changes only about once a month, maybe month and a half. I find the clumps come out pretty cleanly 90% of the time so to just throw the rest away is a waste.
3 indoor cats, one box, Tidy Cats Crystals, and thank you Coldfire, now I can admit this…I only scoop once or twice a week. They seem fine with that, and don’t make any messes outside the box. I add as needed at scooping time, and totally clean and wash the box once a year or so.
