Cat owners advice?

Dave85

Dave85

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Quick question this may seem silly but our cats we used to have did there business in our garden.

I'm looking after my grans cat for 2 weeks now while she and my parents are on holiday. Unfortunately this thing uses a litter box as its not allowed outside. Now I have bought some expensive litter that clumps and is flushable to save hassle and is also meant to block the smell.

But holy moly the smell is still unbearable and the bloody thing leaves little grains of this supposedly non tacking extortionate cat litter over the floors.
I can cope with that and cleaning out the box but the lingering smell is doing my head in already. Im going to pick up some litter box liners tomorrow and some stuff you spray on but im wondering if any of you cat owners can suggest a specific type of air freshener that I can plug into a socket that would neutralise the smell while im out.

Any other suggestions welcome.:p
 
I find Catsan litter is the best for odour control.
How often are you changing the litter, and what are you feeding the cat? I feed my cat GoCat for Indoor Cats (green box) and it results in the least smelliest poos of any of the food I've tried.
Taking out the solids each day should help keep the smells down as well.
 
Hi, im pretty much out all morning but when im here im cleaning them out as soon as hes finished in the box to keep the smell down. He is on whiskas food both dry biscuits and normal pouches wouldn't wont to try changing his food as he is not my cat.

I looked at the catsan while I was there but admit I got the World best cat litter as the pets@home guy said it was better and read all the marketing nonsense. If it will be worth it I will pick up some catsan stuff while im there tomorrow.
 
Catsan is good.

We've got 2 cats, we don't have a cat flap, as we rent and have two glass doors for exterior doors. So they do use both our garden (when we're in) and a litter tray (overnight and while we're at work).

We scoop the poop every day, having two of them we empty the whole thing about every 5 days. With cheaper cat litter, it was more like every 2 days.

We got a hooded cat litter tray - it cut the smell down MASSIVELY and stopped them getting cat litter everywhere.

This is the exact one we have. Was worth its weight in gold :D

http://www.seapets.co.uk/products/c...ays/catit-hooded-pan-grey.html?ref=googlebase
 
Hi thanks think I will pick up some catsan you use the clumping or non clumping catsan?. I looked at a few of those hooded ones but no idea if he likes them. hes quite a timid cat so the flap would probably freak him out. Hopefully with the litter and millions of air fresheners im going to buy I will survive for 2 weeks thanks :)
 
Catsan is definitely the best Dave - if the smell is too bad perhaps a few of those air freshers that plug into the mains might help?

I'm sure if you followed that route you'd also get brownie points for looking after your Grans house as well ;)
 
I use wood pellets. They're low-dust, excellent at odour control, and unlike granules/clay/sand don't get trodden all over the floor. TBH though garbage in, garbage out. Our cat eats only whole raw foods (same as all my other animals) and his poos are tiny and don't smell at all. :)
 
You can get specific products for cleaning up cat pee, but the lingering smell of cat-poop is difficult to deal with. I have a 20 year old cat who's slowly becoming incontinent, so it's a big problem.

I use these airfresheners called "ona blocks" which are pretty effective. Leave one near the tray and it'll neutralise/mask a good portion of the smell.

The green one smells quite nice, the blue one smells a bit like old hospitals. Get the green one.
 
Catsan here too, we have 3 two year olds, two males and a female (brothers and sister), the males go outside, the female will only use the tray which is in the conservatory. If we've been out all day, the smell is there but nothing like it is with other litters and after cleaning up, we just use Febreeze Caribbean freshener, does just the job.
 
wilkinsons do the best cat litter the "light weight" one , the pink one is crap and the fullers earth one is crap.

wilkos light weight is better than catsan and all the other expensive brands we have tried.

I use these airfresheners called "ona blocks" which are pretty effective.
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all hydroponic shops will sell these but they are like 7 quid or something crazy..

get a neutrodol from wilkinsons for a quid they are like mini ona blocks
 
We use Clean n Tidy - Multi Cat Litter that you can buy from Pets at Home.

Locks in smells & good clumping when cleaning out the litter trays. Doesn't smell if they pee in the tray on a night & we walk into the room in the morning good stuff.

If you are having smell issues, then best way is to keep cleaning the litter tray as often as possible.
 
we just used cheap tesco value, if the cat pooped we scooped it out cos it all clumped and put it in a bag and bin.

even over night, you can smell it but once its in the bin the smell goes quickly.

thankfully ours both poop outside now so we dont need a litter tray.

tesco vale is also a really cheap so u can just dump a whole tray full if its bad.
 
arknor said:
wilkinsons do the best cat litter the "light weight" one , the pink one is crap and the fullers earth one is crap.

wilkos light weight is better than catsan and all the other expensive brands we have tried.

all hydroponic shops will sell these but they are like 7 quid or something crazy..

get a neutrodol from wilkinsons for a quid they are like mini ona blocks
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I use a mixture of the Wilko cat litters and Sophisticat as it's almost as cheap as the own brand.

Link to Sophisticat
 
Rainmaker said:
I use wood pellets. They're low-dust, excellent at odour control, and unlike granules/clay/sand don't get trodden all over the floor. TBH though garbage in, garbage out. Our cat eats only whole raw foods (same as all my other animals) and his poos are tiny and don't smell at all. :)
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Same here, really cuts down the odour as it dries the poop out. However, our cats walk the sawdust everwhere instead :(
 
I use catsan and GoCat for indoor cats, also I use a odour control powder now and then, just sprinkle it on the litter and it smells nice
 
byteagig said:
I use catsan and GoCat for indoor cats, also I use a odour control powder now and then, just sprinkle it on the litter and it smells nice
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Ooh, me too and I totally forgot. I use this:

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it's really good and only cost me 99p :eek:, which last me about 6 litter changes :D
 
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