Thinking of getting a cat. Issue is I have a 1BR apartment with a tiny bathroom. Putting kitty litter in the bathroom is not an option so what do people do in cases like this? What are my options?
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Thinking of getting a cat. Issue is I have a 1BR apartment with a tiny bathroom.
I have the same problem. Temporary he lives in my shower when I don't want him around.
whatever you do use wood pellets, these things are great. I been keeping indoors cat for years and use regular kitty litter and I never get used to the odor. But i recently bought wodeen pellets and they fricking magical, no smell at I only get a whiff of cat piss and shit when I'm cleaning the litter box.
Just make it an outside cat.
There are closed litter boxes and fragrances to try to control the smell but your apartment is too small for a cat and it will smell anyway, I would recommend you to get something else
You can get litrerboxes that are covered, are top-down entry, etc. There's a big variety and some are specifically made to mitigate smell. So long as you take out the shit and piss every day and do a weekly or bi-weekly deep clean, there reallt shouldn't be a smell.
The bigger issue is size. The regular litter trays you see in pet shops are actually way too small. But, the biggest one you could find might not be covered or odour-mitigating.
ALSO if you adopt an older cat or when the cat you have gets older, arthritis may stop them from effectively using a big litter box, so you'd have to upgrade to a fricking xxxl shitbox so they don't piss on your walls because squatting becomes painful. Speaking from experience.
Good luck.
>buy picrel
>put a mat or smth in front of it not to spread cat litter through the place
>use fancy stuff (either silica or organic based stuff that wont frickup your drains)
>clean every other day + before visitors
>clean properly, avoid mixing peed sand with clean sand at all costs
>clean the litterbox fully every month or so
that's how i keep it. i have 2 cats so i gotta clean every day, but sometimes i don't. gl anon
Why is putting the litter box in the bathroom next to the toilet not an option? My cat was fine with it when I lived in a one bed/bath apartment.
My bathroom is tiny. The toilet is wedged between the wall and the sink. No room to do what you do. My only option would be maybe to keep it in the bath tub and remove it when I shower.
Not the worst option, famalamadingdong.
>have to sweep before taking a morning dump or shower or step barefoot in piss granules
He is messy, but pine pellets are way better than clay litter.
Youre stepping in piss and shit soaked litter either way
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Just clean it often and it won't smell
Cathomosexuals actually believe this
Meds
What meds stop piss and shit in a plastic box from reeking?
Cleaning does.
Yeah okay dude let me tell you how well this works. I have a cat so you can trust me.
>mat
Cat spreads litter anyways, they aren't people, they don't wipe their feet. They will track shit across the whole house until they feel cozy enough to lick it off.
>Every other day
The litterbox reeks immediately after use and MUST be cleaned immediately after use. Every other day is doggay turd yard tier, no matter how carefully you scoop. The cat will stir up the sand anyways.
>Full clean every month or so
Even doing this every week you will notice a smell when you get back home. You need a litterbox liner and should be changing it every few days. If you don't want to waste litter just keep it in a temp bucket but keep in mind, any litter that has been used is contaminated and does smell.
>2 cats
I have one and can still smell it when the litter shit is in the basement and still step in litter at the TOP of the stairs. Carpeted stairs.
>doggay turd yard tier
aka the average doggay
and the average catgay scoops once every 3 days to once a week. imagine having 3 days of piss and shit in a box in your house.
"normal" people are really disgusting and would be okay with having buckets for toilets.
>buckets of human piss and shit?
>i dont smell anything. the lid is enough.
"normal" people think body odor is inoffensive or even good, and will skip a whole day of showers sometimes.
dont trust anyone except yourself, clean everything immediately and thoroughly like logic dictates
>Cat spreads litter anyways, they aren't people, they don't wipe their feet. They will track shit across the whole house until they feel cozy enough to lick it off.
I have used
and it basically has solved the problem of litter being tracked anywhere. My cat only tracked shit when she was a small kitten and if I saw her step in it I would bring her to the sink and just clean her myself. Eventually she stopped stepping/sitting in it.
>The litterbox reeks immediately after use and MUST be cleaned immediately after use.
This is the most important part of controlling the smell OP. Flushable litter helps with this. I scoop into the toilet immediately.
>>Full clean every month or so
Must be done AT LEAST weekly. I don't use a liner but I just put the box through the dishwasher by itself. Scrub it hard with harsh chemicals if you don't have one.
>flushable litter
You know thats a meme for morons, right? Like flushable wipes
> I just put the box through the dishwasher
Holy shit disgusting another reason to never eat cathomosexual food
You nasty frickers never cease to amaze me
>You know thats a meme for morons,
I'm a rentoid so it doesn't matter.
>Holy shit disgusting another reason to never eat cathomosexual food You nasty frickers never cease to amaze me
You know what a dishwasher does right? It cleans dishes. It gets to 150+ Fahrenheit which is more than enough to totally sanitize any trace amounts of cat pee and poo. It cleans and disinfects it way better than I could by hand. I also clean my dishwasher regularly.
>i boil my cat's piss and shit so its fine to eat
Do you have any concept of how much human shit and piss you inadvertently consume?
Cool strawman, nasty shit eater
I bet you wash your toilet brush in the dishwasher too
Pig disgusting subhuman
I bet you don't even clean your toilet brush, moron.
So thats a yes
Lmao holy shit you take nasty cathomosexual to a whole different dimension
You on here giving out hygiene advice is the shit icing on the shit cake
By god
Have you ever heard of soap and detergent? Not sure how you even clean yourself.
I clean myself with the toilet brush after i run it through the dishwasher
The toilet brush is soaked in fricking bleach and then hosed off outside
Which also happens to be the way you are meant to clean a litterbox
You are more disgusting than that schizo who doesn't scoop his box for 5 days and starts screaming about dogs if you point out how disgusting that is
>you only haff tu scup erry 5 days mebe 7
>Ew.
>DOG FRICKERS DOG FRICKERS DOG FRICKERS BARK BARK BARK
>soaking it in bleach in lukewarm water for a few minutes is totally clean
>putting it through a machine with a specialized formula of chemicals (including bleach) that hoses it down with scorching hot water for two hours is disgusting.
make it make sense.
it in bleach in lukewarm water for a few minutes is totally clean
No, I said bleach. Not lukewarm water.
>putting it through a machine with a specialized formula of chemicals (including bleach) that hoses it down with scorching hot water for two hours is disgusting.
Do you know why dishwashers themselves need cleaned? Because they are sterilization devices. Shit builds up in the nooks and crannies. Lazy, gross homosexual. Please show me your cat so I know if I see that cat I know not to eat there.
here is how you cat:
SCOOP LITTERBOX ONCE A DAY OR MORE
USE A LITTERBOX LINER
CHANGE IT AT LEAST EVERY 3 DAYS
STOP REUSING THE LITTER AFTER A WEEK
BLEACH CLEAN LITTERBOX ONCE EVERY ONE OR TWO WEEKS DEPENDING ON CONDITION
LITTERBOXES DO NOT GO IN KITCHENS BEDROOMS LIVING ROOMS CLOSETS DINING ROOMS OR ENTRYWAYS, THEY GO IN THE BASEMENT OR IN AN OUTDOOR ENCLOSURE
Anyone who disagrees with any of this is DISGUSTING. Period. You are fricking vile. Cats are meant to be clean animals, but clearly that condition isn't contagious. You live in a house of shit and piss. The cat would be cleaner living in a literal dump.
>third worlder would rather lick cat shit (which is never fine) than eat raw meat (which is fine if it's freshly killed and you eat around the worms and cysts if present)
*because they are NOT sterilization devices
But knowing you, you've never smelled musty sewer dishwasher, because you never smell anything
I bet you don't clean your washing machine out either and don't pre-treat clothes that have shit or guts on them
My homie unless you have an autoclave you can't sterilize shit. Dishwashers kill 99.99 percent of bacteria and germs. You think your bleach soak is gonna sterilize the litterbox? Good luck. Scrub the litter pan, then dishwasher, then use it again. It's fine. It's not a big deal. It gets clean.
Nasty homosexual
Tell your guests you cleaned the litterbox in the dishwasher and see what happens
I have and most people have normal reactions.
Abject horror and disgust?
>vegetarian trying to lecture me on meat
chicken at the store is not "freshly killed" enough to eat raw which you would know if you ate meat. And even in expired chicken there are no visible worms or cysts which again you would know if you ever ate meat.
>here is how you cat:
that sounds like a lot of work. Just do what I do:
LET THE CAT OUTSIDE ONCE A DAY OR MORE
NOTHING ELSE IS REQUIRED BECAUSE YOU DON'T NEED TO CLEAN THE OUTSIDE
problem solved.
>Cats are meant to be
animals that can go outside
>You live in a house of shit and piss
says the man who literally lets an animal shit and piss in his house every day.
I trimmed raw chicken with a kitchen knife today. Wanna know what I did to clean it? I put it in the dishwasher. That's it. Nothing else. And I would rather lick cat shit than raw chicken.
>Putting kitty litter in the bathroom is not an option
then it sounds like you're not getting a cat, amigo
I believe cats need space and do not belong in an apartment
You should maybe choose another animal or buy a plant instead (plants are really nice)
you okay neighbours pitbaby killing your cats? or me stealing them? 😀
>pitbaby killing your cats? or me stealing them?
No such things where I live
It's wild nature but we're civilized
Literally every medium to large carnivore eats cats like candy so you're saying your cat has no competition and is therefore a destructive invasive species
Keep it on your property. Especially off mine. I am also civilized that's why I don't want other peoples animals digging around and shitting in MY dirt, especially after I spent hundreds of dollars on designated shitting dirt.
If a rat can be happy going in and out of a cage, and a dog can he happy in a hobo's cardboard box, as long as they can leave and go places with you, then so can a cat.
The only stipulation is the animal must leave the apartment with you a few times every day. WITH you. Not roaming alone. Roaming pets are wild animals like raccoons and foxes and are defacto food for each other and all other animals.
>destructive invasive species
Not
>I spent hundreds of dollars on designated shitting dirt
My
>If a rat can be happy going in and out of a cage
Problem
Neither is the heckin huskerino getting 10lbs of free bangkok pork
>bangkok pork
I raughed
What else is a good pet for a small apartment that isn't loud?
Rats and bunnies
Rats are stinky but not cat tier stinky
Bunnies can be destructive but its managable and they smell like heaven
>do not make noise
>low maintenance
>low cost
>can live 15 years
>just need a minimum of space
>and love
I have friends with fish and reptiles and their apartments are always oddly humid, I think the tanks make it like that.
get a reptile that doesn't need constant high humidity like a leopard gecko, You need one humid hide and that's it. Only downside is you do need live feeder insects
Get a lid.
fish are good, or alternatively reptiles if you want something you can interact with a bit more. they're lower maintenance than most fish too if that's what you're looking for.
frogs, snakes, fish, hamster
I had a grey tree frog for a few years, found her out in the country. She was a fun pet that i could actually play games with. Plus you can go on night adventures to capture moths to feed it
you get used to it
>I don’t smell anything
Its going to be gross and disgusting no matter what you do
One of the other rooms I would imagine.
Don't they make enclosed kittly litter boxes? Do those work? If I stick this in the living room will it smell?
yes they do but the cat also can make a mess jumping in/out of them
If you get one of those top opening ones, the cat has to stand on a grate/textured surface to get in and out, which takes care of most of the litter.
It gets literally buried in their paws, it will never get all of it
That's why the best thing you can actually do is build a catio and put the litterbox there. With any luck, between hanging out in the catio and the added distance walking across turf will clean them out better. As a plus your cat can go outside without dying 16 years too early.
>. Putting kitty litter in the bathroom is not an option
Why not?
>If I stick this in the living room will it smell?
Yes, kitty litter will smell. It will either smell like fresh litter or dirty litter. Make sure to change it and clean it thoroughly if you have guests coming over. Covered litter boxes are a meme, best course of action is to scoop immediately.
What about self-cleaning litter boxes? Do those actually work?
>What about self-cleaning litter boxes? Do those actually work?
no
they work at smearing shitpisslitter dough across the whole box so cleaning it is harder in the end
just scoop your box once a day and use a liner that gets changed every few days