Where are they?

Laureen~~

We will be sitting downstairs watching a movie and suddenly hear Kowe belting down the hardwood stairs, skidding out of control on the landing, maniacally chirping.

Husband and I look at each other : "Yup. Kowe just pooped"

If a cat belts UP the cat tree afterwards, then we know it's Roo

Hmmm...I havent' used a closet for a litter space in a while. I am going to have a large walk in closet in our new house. That would be perfect. But I do like to have a window for air circulation....we'll see!

1 in the hall extension sort of like a closet.

We have one downstairs in the kitchen and one upstairs in the bathroom, and temporarily we have one in my daughter's bedroom for the kitten. She (the kitten, not my daughter) got used to using it when she was in quarantine, and I don't want to move it until I know she's used to finding the others.

i have three boxes in the main house and one in my studio cuz when i am there the cat hangs out there too. In the house they are all in bathrooms because i throw the clumps in the toilet. In the garden room it just sits out. On the main floor it's in an unused shower stall in the powder room. and upstairs it's in the masterbath because she sleeps in our room. the masterbath box has a wooden fireplace screen around it so I dont have to stare at it but it's easy for abi and us to access. It's sorta cute because while I am "ocupied" she comes in and uses her box too.

i used to have a corrugated cardboard "house" over one of them but it didn't have a door flap, just an opening. I had to lift up the cover to scoop and that was a drag.

I live in three rooms with a tiny bathroom so I put the box in a kitchen closet with the door ajar at all times.

I'm lucky - Smidge doesnt seem to mind this one bit.
Perhaps she likes the privacy.

we have a one-bedroom apartment. i keep 2 boxes in our bedroom. and when i put out the spare, that's where it also goes. and i have 1 box in our "dining" area. it's next to the fridge, and not used as much as the bedroom boxes. i scoop 2-3x a day because i can't stand dirty boxes (the cats probably feel the same way ).

I live in an apartment on the third story. The litterbox is on the balcony. I like this because when they track the litter outside the box, I just sweep it off the edge

I have two boxes grouped together in the spare bedroom and one down the hall in the bonus room. I would like to put one downstairs, but it's just not big enough or laid out right for me to do that. I'd have to put it in the living room or kitchen, and that just doesn't seem like a real good idea.

Unfinished basement: has 5 litter boxes. Two are under the stairs; two are in the corner; one is just kinda in the center of the basement. Note: we have a cat door cut into the wood door leading from the living area down to the basement (catdoors.com).

Laundry Room: has one box in the corner.

Living Room / sitting room: we have one box, a very small one, underneath a tall chair that is covered with a tablecloth (the tall chair is used as a table). We put this small box in this room because one of our 8 cats basically 'lives' in this room.

Top of the stairs, 2nd floor: We have a wicker box / hope chest looking thing with a door in it, where a litter box sits inside. I have a pillow & blanket overtop of the wicker box thing to make it look like seating.

Kid's playroom / Cat Quarantine Room: our 4th bedroom is a quarantine room for when one of the cats is ill, misbehaving, or having 'issues' where they need time out from the other cats.

Of the 9 litter boxes we have, only 2 are covered. Some of our cats just don't like the 'cave' boxes!

darkeyedgirl~~

You have created a perfect cat house

We looked at a house one day whose owners had 3 cats. They had a cat door leading to the semi-finished basement. But what was interesting is they created a cat litter spot *under* the basement stairs.

When you walked along the hall in the basement, you also walked past the stairs. On the wall was another cat cut out (larger) so the cats could enter the litter area. The owners accessed the 3 boxes by a 'closet' door in back (under the stairs was a good sized open space). They also had a large pan upstairs in the kitchen corner.

They did all that for both the cats having privacy and themselves for not 'seeing' the boxes 24/7.

I need to see the finished lay out of our new house (another month and a half to go) before I know for sure how I will place the 5-6 boxes. I also have always had a 'quarantine' room so I have to figure that out.

Originally Posted by Jpawz

Hmmm...I havent' used a closet for a litter space in a while. I am going to have a large walk in closet in our new house. That would be perfect. But I do like to have a window for air circulation....we'll see!

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One of our walk in closets has a window. It's very strange, but functional.

I have 8 cats. Our old house was smaller, about 1000sf including a partially finished basement. There we had 6 boxes...3 in the 2nd bedroom/office, a carpeted one in the living room, and 2 in the basement. We left the basement door open.

Our "new" (very old) house is more than double the size of our old one, so I found I needed to add more boxes for the new spread out territory. 2 stories was a new experience for the cats too...although they did have the access to the basement at the old place.

When my cats still free fed on their dry upstairs, I had 6 boxes upstairs and one downstairs in the bathroom. That worked out fine. Now they don't eat dry food, and they do all their dining in the kitchen downstairs - so one box downstairs wasn't nearly enough. They seem to do most of their pottying right before and after they eat.

NOW, we have a total of 11 boxes. 3 upstairs in a large closet in the guest bedroom, 3 in the spare/cat room upstairs, 2 in the walk-in closet (with window ) of the spare/cat room, one in the bathroom downstairs, and 2 more in the same bathroom, but in the cupboard under the sink. We leave the cupboard door cracked just about an inch and they seem to enjoy wiggling through the opening...so it works.

The 3 downstairs get used a lot so I scoop several times a day. I usually only scoop upstairs once in the morning and once before I go to bed. Those don't get used much.

Overall I'm real happy with the layout here. The closets are big so there's room for the boxes and still room to spare for storage. I've managed to avoid having any sand in the main living areas...but they do still have plenty of places to "go"...so it works out well.

Beandip~

I figured you had a creative set up

That cupboard idea is an intriguing one!

We moved from a townhouse to a restored Victorian, hah! I was worried the cats would be cornfused?!?! But of course, never underestimate a cat

Now we are moving to a similar-sized house, just a different lay out. Maybe I could just ask our builder to make us a 'litter box room' (just off the 'cat sun room' of course