One of the cats is overweight, so I would probably lean toward the large one. Do you think an overweight cat would have a problem with the size of the doorway of the thing?
ETA: The cats are already accustomed to going in an enclosed litterbox.
Man, I think your wife is totally out of line getting all those extra animals when it’s clear that you weren’t super gungho about it. And to add insult to injury, you’re now taking care of them. That’s almost childlike (on her part).
I currently have a cat. My boyfriend is mildly allergic to it, but more to the point, he doesn’t like it, and I’m pretty certain he just doesn’t like cats or animals all that much. However, he’s willing to work with the sole cat that I own because the cat predated him and it’s clear I’m attached to it. Also, the cat only has one eye and I think he gets that it would be hard for me to find it another home.
I would really really like to give this current cat a wee kitten friend because we both work and we’ve started making plans to travel more and I think the cat gets lonely. But I’m holding off simply because I think if my boyfriend going to compromise on putting up with an animal that requires him to pop Claritin and he isn’t all that fond of, I’m going to choose to ensure that he doesn’t have to pop more Claritin than necessary.
Ultimately my boyfriend’s comfort is more important to me than having another cute furball around.
Everything gets coated in poop. One of the benefits of cat ownership.
My Luna is overweight, and she doesn’t seem to.
The large one is probably a good idea- cats seem to prefer larger litter boxes.
ETA: If your cat is like this cat, there might be a problem. If it’s ~15 pounds like my Luna, probably not.
I have 2 dogs and a cat. It is not a big deal. I enjoy every minute with them. I shovel dog crap every week. I clean out litter weekly. Not a problem i love to deal with my animals. I also have 2 huge turtles that would rip my fingers off if they had the chance. I have fed them and cleaned their tank for 20 years,.They think I am food.
I’m tempted. My girlfriend would love it and I have the best name for an orange cat (works better for males but still). Sadly I am poor and living in what is technically a pet free apartment. Good luck!
I’ve got you all beat (much to my discredit).
I seemed to have married Jane Fucking Goodall with an addiction, that I unfortunatly “enabled”. All manner of foul smelling creature have been purchased, fed, bred, sold, bartered and housed on MY little patch of heaven. Never the cheap stuff, either. Nooooo!
And they all need special enclosers! I swear, and I told my wife this, “The next mile of fence I erect is up your ass!” (An idle boast, I assure you 
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How did I not see this coming? :smack:
Edit: To her credit, she did try to sell ordinary black cats as “Comstock Brush Panthers”! 
OK, yesterday was our anniversary, and I didn’t want to negotiate chores. However, I skirted around the subject and she disclosed that she used to scoop cat litter pretty much daily, but after 8 years of doing it, she “burned out.”
Up to now, I had no idea how to maintain a littler box because I never had cats and never expected to have to learn it. Once I took over poop duty, I would dump the entire litter boxes weekly, hose them out, wipe them down, and re-fill them with new litter.
After reading this thread, I just scooped the litter boxes last night instead of washing them out while she did a load of laundry. Then I thought that poop duty might not be so bad if more frequent scooping is all that’s really required, with only a monthly litter dump & wash. It also might not be so bad if I had the right tools, such as two large Roll n Clean thingies and two LitterLockers.
With the right tools, poop duty is really a job that takes perhaps a couple minutes a day of quick sifting instead of 20-30 minutes a week lugging litter boxes outside, dumping an entire bin full of foul waste, washing everything down with a garden hose, getting myself wet in the process, wiping it all down, re-filling the boxes, and getting really grumpy in the process.
Hell, I’d almost rather do poop duty than laundry if that’s the case.
QUESTION: If I scoop litter pretty much daily, would I still need more than 1 large litter box for 3 cats?
Yes, because you wouldn’t believe how much those critters can shit when they take a mind to it.
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Very interesting.
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Wow. An Artie Johnson reference. You must be really old.
There are those who say you need as many litter boxes as you have cats, plus one. We have two cats and one large litter box (a huge rubbermade container, actually, with high sides), and one regular sized litter box.
I’m glad to see you’re working out a better way to do poopscooping duty, but I think this is an issue that you still need to settle with your wife. She needs to know how frustrated you are with the way things went, with her bringing in animals you didn’t want and then letting you deal with them.
Perhaps so. I’ll do a couple of pre-emptive loads of laundry first. 
Question for the people saying that they clean litter weekly: do you mean you dump the whole box out once a week and scoop daily or that you scoop once a week? I have three cats and two large boxes (tried adding another and they ignored it) and I scoop twice a day. I can’t imagine how bad my house would smell if I scooped weekly.
OP, how about getting one of those automatic feeders and waterers for the cats? That would save you some time. Unless you have a cat that will gorge itself.
Forgot who said it and can’t find it on a skim through, but I also feel bad for your rabbit and the cats in the garage. Why does your wife want so many animals that she doesn’t spend time with?
I have to admit, my husband didn’t really want the third cat, but I do 99% of the work associated with them so he doesn’t have much complaint there. We tried to find her a home instead of keeping her, but no one wanted her so she’s one of the family now. The other two cats were discussed and agreed on beforehand, as was the dog. I don’t understand bringing an animal into a home where someone is opposed to having them there, that’s not fair for the pet or the people.
That’s probably overkill.
I roll the Omega Paw litter box once a day (making sure there are no cats in it first, of course), or else Mr. Neville does. We usually do it when we feed the cats at night. I find emptying the drawer once a week (the night before trash day) is sufficient with two litter boxes and two cats.
Probably. And if you do have them sharing one litter box, it can be an unstable situation- any stress can tip them over to thinking outside the box, as it were. That happened to us, and now we have two litter boxes and no problems. I’d have at least two, probably three.
The cats are in the house but have access to the garage to potty.
My wife just told me she had a Roll n Clean at one point but the poop ended up gunking up and sticking in the tray. Is that true for you?
My own raging cat allergies have been the sole roadblock to my wife going adopt-happy, and she even still brought home 2 kittens once “just to see…maybe your allergies have gotten better…”
The little dust-dandruff-lint traps went to a new home a month later after much allergy suffering and a genuine “them or me” ultimatum.
Just barely old enough to have watched when it was first-run. 
I have two cats and one litter box. The litter box is in the back hall, just outside a small lavatory. I have been using flushable cat litter, and it’s a godsend. The urine clumps, and you just scoop it and dump it into the toilet, along with the poop. It un-clumps when it hits the toilet water and flushes down without a problem.
You have to add to the litter every few days, but you never have to empty the old stuff. It’s so low-maintenance, I’m actually thinking of getting a third cat.