How to hide a cat liter box?
Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at
9:31 am
I have a very small home with limited space. No basement. Any creative ideas on how to hide a cat liter box so that it isn’t in the open for all to see? My indoor cat uses it often and it’s really yucky. It is an automatic one.
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Ooooh OOOOOH I know this one!
I have the same problem. Tiny house, 2 cats, 1 big litter pan.
I put my litter pan in a large plastic storage bin with lid. I found a color coordinated bin. The inside of the bin is 28" long and 15" high. I cut an 8" square out of one end.
You can use this with or without the lid. I keep mine under a small work table without the lid – no one knows it’s there.
The best part is that the litter stays in the pan, or the bin – along with the scooper. You can even pour baking soda under the pan for extra special odor fighting.
Ever since I tried this years ago, I won’t do it any other way. It’s bigger than the hooded pans, leaves enough room on one end of the bin to keep the litter inside, and no one else knows it’s a litter box.
You could also purchase wood or resin cat-box window seats – which are cute, as long as they’re big enough and lined.
edited: Sorry I missed the part about the automatic pan. I thought that was supposed to help the yuk factor. Depending on the size, you could just keep it under a small table with a tablecloth.
Build a tiny little private house around it!
Could you "hide" it in a chest of drawers? Maybe pull the chest off the wall just enough for puss to get in behind and enter the tray that way. Of course that will only wirk if the chest has no back panel and you will need to remove the drawers, but take off the face of the drawers and fit them (with glue maybe) on the front of the chest so that it still looks like a functioning unit. Also you will need to be strong enough to move the chest each day for cleaning the tray…
1. Clean it more often.
2. There are some furniture you can buy or make, like a side table, with an opening for the cat to get in and out.
Put it in your bedroom.
To decrease the "yuck" cut down on the wet food and increase the (high quality) all in dry food.
Get a covered litter box and put it in the bathroom. Shut your cat in there with it, when you move it, with bed, food water, etc for a day so she knows where it is