everyone with indoor cats please read...need litter help.

Hmm..as far as ordering online, I have used Ebay since 1999 and only had one bad experience. If you pay using PayPal (an online payment service that is free to use), they have buyer protection and you van get a refund if the seller doesn't deliver or sends something defective. The seller only gets your mailing address, not your bank info or credit card info.

I may be too paranoid, but an address is dangerous too.

This is what it could be:

Cheap cat food
health issue- worms, giardia, bacterial gut infection, build-up of gas- impacted anal glands

You should take your cat to the vet to be checked, look into buying a brand of kitty litter that will work for you, invest in a covered litter box and buy a small filter system to help clear the air. Scoop the box out more than once daily, and make sure there is enough litter in the box to cover the waste.

Food: I feed her Purina Kitten Chow.
Health: She's vet ok'd
Gas: ???? She only smells when she poos.

I'm trying to get help picking litter...for instance I had heard that clumping was dangerous and some cats/kittens can eat it. I am currently using tidy cats scoopable. I already have a covered litterbox. I scoop it daily. There's plenty of litter in the box.

How many litter boxes do you have for how many cats? Most people try to have one per kitty + 1. So 3 cats = 4 litter boxes. They don't have to be fancy litter boxes (Rubbermaid storage containers work just fine) but there should be an adequate quantity of boxes, and also make sure the boxes are in a quiet and easily accessible area.

Because you recently made her a covered litter box AND changed the litter, I would consider removing the cover or adding another uncovered litter box, and using the litter she used before. Actually, it might be a better idea just to add a brand new box in case she has bad associations with the old one. It might have been a combination of having a new covered box plus the new litter that put her over the top and she decided to find a new place to pee. I would do this as soon as possible so that she doesn't make this bed peeing a new habit. I wouldn't change anything else (litter box-wise) until she is back using the box consistently.

Hope you find a solution that works!

I just have one box for her, but she never had a problem untill I started the Arm and Hammer cat litter deodorizer. She used one litter box that she shared with her mother and 3 sibling kittens, so I dont think another with her will matter. Sofar today she's done fine since I changed the litter and removed the Arm and Hammer.

I covered her litter box over a week ago and she's been fine. When I started the Arm and Hammer about 2-3 days ago, I noticed she stopped covering her poo. I was gonna give in another day and then stop using the stuff and see if that got her covering again. If it didnt I was gonna remove the cover. After her peeing on my bed, I changed her litter imediately and washed ALL the bedding to remove the smell. Sofar she's back to her normal habits, and since she didnt cover it leads me to think she didnt like the smell or the dust and didnt wanna scratch. The main solution I need to find now is something to get rid of the odor...thanks for your suggestions..I'd forgot the 2 box per cat rule.

Peaches used to have REALLY stinky poo. It got a lot better after I started feeding her IAMS dry cat food. I don't even notice anymore when she poops. I even supplement her diet with a bit of wet IAMS a couple times a week. She doesn't seem to eat as much of it either. I bought a 20lb bag when I got her in November and it lasted until almost June! Now all three of my cats are eating IAMS because they all seem to do so well on it.

Good luck Girlfriend!

Nutro brands of dry cat food are good too. Wet food doesn't seem to make a difference re: poop odor, but the dry food really does! Iams is okay and is available in supermarkets but isn't particularly cheaper than Nutro, so I buy the latter at Petco. I've found Science Diet dry food to be fattening in the long run, although since your kitty is still a baby, that's not an immediate issue.

If you do change foods, try mixing the current brand together with the new one initially. That sometimes makes changing brands easier.

As others have said, her poop could also be stinky because of other issues, such as worms, so you might want to take her to a vet if it or the peeing persists.

I have 5 cats, and have an enormous (homemade) litter box and one small one in a bathroom. I only have the small one because one of my cats is now somewhat afraid of the others, so I put her in the bathroom alone to do her business. Before that started, all 5 used the same box, without any trouble. Some cats are very particular abt litter boxes but a lot are not.

Originally posted by mzjazz2u
Peaches used to have REALLY stinky poo. It got a lot better after I started feeding her IAMS dry cat food.
Good luck Girlfriend!

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Hopefully I will find something that will work. I told grandma today about everyone's suggestion with Iams and Science Diet, but she said it's way too costly. A little bag of science diet is about $10.00 at both vets here. As for Iams...I'm gonna check on that the next time I go to town.
Thanks for the luck You too with whatever you need it for in your life. *hugs*

Originally posted by Lucia
As others have said, her poop could also be stinky because of other issues, such as worms, so you might want to take her to a vet if it or the peeing persists.

I have 5 cats, and have an enormous (homemade) litter box....Some cats are very particular abt litter boxes but a lot are not.

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She is wormless and has been vet ok'd. Sofar today she's done fine. I still think she just didnt want to use her litterbox because of the Arm and Hammer litter deodorizer I used. Hopefully she will not pee like that again.

Well it's been a while, time for an update!
After 2 pees on my bed and one poo beside the box I finally got the litter problem taken care of. One no more arm and hammer powder. Two, I made the whole ALOT bigger on her covered litter box.
As for the odor...I went ahead and tried IAMS. On the bag it said it would minimize litter odor and create less waste. I'm glad you guys recommended it because it has worked!!! I bought one $6 bag when we last discussed this and the bag still isnt empty. Also her poo doesnt smell unless she decides to not cover it and then its minimal.
So thanks. Now I can finally sleep without being woke up by her poo odor

Great! Glad to hear things are working. Spica is such a gorgeous gal, I have a soft spot in my heart for torties.

I'm glad it's working too no more late night poos!
Spica thanks you for the compliment

Yay! Glad it's working.

We have 2 cats and we used to have odor problems however, we now use cat litter deodoriser. We sprinkle it evenly over the bottom of the tray and we have never had a problem since. Our cats love using just the one tray for some strange reason, they always have.. One will go and do their business, then moments later the other is in there doing the same. The only problem we had was once and that was when i was changing the cat litter and the little girl needed to go pee pee which of course i did not know at the time, so she ran into the bathroom and pee'd on the mat, and that is the only incident we have ever had.

We tried those litter liner, but the cats just scratched them to pieces, and they ran off with little bits in their mouth's and played with the plastic!

Im glad that the smell isn't lingering while you sleep !!

Isn't it odd the way cats act about their potty?
Spica doesnt seem to like liners either.
I'm glad the smell is gone too!! I dont think poo is a good smell at all!!! *gag*

We used that arm& hammer deoderizer, then I discovered it was just scented baking soda, so we just use plain baking soda now. None of our cats have had any problems with it, and it really does help with the odors.

we use Tidy Cat litter

We dump a small box of plain baking soda in when we change the litter, and use Tidy Cats because I can get it in bulk. We are a bulk loving household.