Poll: How many litter boxes do you have?

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I'm not sure you're going to get the information you want with the way the poll is worded. There's no place to indicate how many cats are using the litter boxes. I have 7 cats and voted 5+ boxes, which doesn't give you an exact boxes per cat number.

I have six litter boxes. Until recently, I had two completely indoor cats ( a DLH and a F3 Savannah) and two indoor/outdoor cats. The DLH was put down a week ago today. However, since, I still have my foundation Savannah, I will be keeping the same number of boxes. Reason number one, is, he is used to said number of boxes. The second reason, is, foundation exotic cat hybrids are EXTREMELY clean . So, the more "choices" Loki the Savannah has, the happier he is .

At some point this year, I will be adding two more foundation cat hybrids (F2 Savannah and F2 Chausie). This means, I will have thirteen litter boxes inside my home . Also, if, you want to see picture's of the boxes, just ask .

Lastly, my indoor/outdoor DSH's would rather go to the "bathroom" outside. But, in the winter and on wet days/nights they will use the litter boxes.
 

Lol, the poll cracks me up. Half for 1 or 2 and the other half for crazy cat lady level. (I'm joking of course )

I have one cat so only one box for me.

2 cats, 2 boxes.

At the moment, one is in the guest room.  But this HAS to be moved asap as we have my DIL arriving in a few weeks. It was put there when we adopted our 2nd cat recently since this was her safe room.

We have very little areas where another box will fit - it's a rather small house.  We can fit one into a large closet which serves as a pass-through to a small powder room on the first floor, so that's where it's new home will be.  It can't fit into the powder room unfortunately.  At least it's out of the way, in a quiet area.  

I'd love to be able to have 3, but there truly just isn't any other appropriate place in the house to put one.

We have stepped up the removals a lot, especially since our new one has been utilizing both boxes.  The resident kitty seems to still prefer the his original one.  I'm hoping that will change once we get the box onto the first floor, especially since it appear he may have arthritis.  Would be much easier for him not to have to climb the stairs if he doesn't have to.

I have nine cats, 7 boxes

Two in the living room, two in their room, two in the bathroom. When I go, someone always has to too.

One in the hallway for the one who likes to go on carpet. Still trying to fix that behavior

I have two LARGE litter boxes and two indoor DSH cats.  They're technically not really litter boxes, but large, flat storage containers from Wal-Mart.  My vet suggested using those over the smaller litter boxes typically available in pet stores.  I scoop them twice a day and completely change them and wash them out every two weeks.
 

We have six cats and the number of litter boxes in use varies. They currently have two 36x24x8(I believe) MacCourt "super tubs" in a spare bedroom, one super tub and a large modified storage container(Rubbermaid?) in the kitchen, and a large(Nature's Miracle brand) box in the master bathroom. I have around seven litter boxes not-in-use but I find the current number works well and they prefer the tubs/storage containers over commercial litter boxes. Scooping often, using World's Best Multi, and having six boys who don't mind sharing helps. When I lived in a smaller house I only had four cats and two-three boxes(with 1-3 different types of litter choices) without any issues. I would recommend more boxes(1-2 per cat) and different locations/territories for cats who are particular or intolerant of each other.  

When I go, someone always has to too.

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  When my partner goes someone always wants to be on his lap making bread(or nursing in one cat's case, as disturbing as that might sound).  Oftentimes they want to use the bathroom box when we're in there too, which is why I avoid that bathroom

2 boxes, 2 cats, DSH and a Burmese. The Burmese was feral when I got her, so she got her own room, cat tree, toys and litter box. They now share the entire house, but still have their own rooms and litter boxes. I have made it clear that they can visit in each others room, but neither has ever shown any interest in using the other's box. My best friend had 11 cats and 3 litter boxes. Hope that helps.

Lei-Ann
 

At one point, we had five cats: 2 DLHs and 3 DSHs. At that point, we were up about six litterboxes scattered throughout the house. As the three elderly gentlemen passed away, the number of cats dwindled down to two: one DLH (Missy) and 1 DSH (Peeps), but the number of litterboxes hasn't changed. It takes some of the litter scooping pressure off since both ladies tend to use all the boxes. However, instead of being scattered all throughout the house, the arrival of the son has moved most of the boxes into the basement with only one or two left upstairs.

Looks like most of us have at least 5. I have 7 cats here and 5 boxes, some boxes bigger than others. I do a lot of litter scooping.

Maybe there should be a poll that says how many boxes per cat.  As in, household litter box density (LBD).  The poll question would be: What is the litter box density in your household in boxes per cat?

LBD = n_b/n_c

Or, how close to the recommended number of boxes (n_c+1).  We could express it as a percent difference.  The closer to 0% the closer your number of litter boxes is to the ideal number.  A negative number means you don't have enough and a positive number means you have more than you need.  The question would be: What % difference is your household litter box number compared to the accepted ideal?  Then you have percent categories to choose from, like 10 percent categories in 20% increments (to allow for both positive and negative differences)

% Difference = ((n_b-( n_c+1))/n_c+1)*100

Or... a "Litter Box Coefficient" (LBC), where the closer to 1, the closer you are to the ideal number.  <1 = not enough;  >1 = too many.  The question would be: What is the Litter Box Coefficient in your household?

LBC =   n_b/(n_c+1)

Where: 

n_c  = # of cats

n_b  = # of litter boxes

For instance, if you have 5 cats and 5 litter boxes: LBD is 1 box/cat.  The % Difference from accepted ideal would be -16.7, meaning that you have 16.7% fewer litter boxes than you're supposed to.  The LBC would be .83.  As in, almost enough but not quite. 

3 boxes and 4 cats:

LBD: 0.75

% Diff: -40

LBC: 0.6

Okay... someone go make one of those polls now.  

Uh-oh, you posted math. My husband does math for a living. He is a biostatistician.

I only had to read two lines before he was intrigued. He worked your formula. However, he informed me that he does not have all our litterboxes downstairs in service. He only has two full downstairs, although one of them is really big (as large as two standard, so perhaps you should modify your formula to account for area or volume of litter in each box). We do have a 100% or just right according to him. Two cats, three boxes.

Oh, a biostatistician, cool.  I'm not really a math person, but I'm going to school for environmental science, so have had to learn how to interpret raw data.  Last semester we had a whole stats class on interpreting biological data.  So, I saw raw data and figured it needed a bit of tweaking to be meaningful, lol.  

Oh, yeah, statistics is where I got the idea for my avatar.  "μ" or "mu" (pronounced mew).  Usually denotes population mean.  Although now I'm in some hydrology courses and μ is usually viscosity.  

Heh, he's not formally trained in stats. He just sort of fell into it. He's always gotten along well with numbers enough to play with them. He had two years of engineering under his belt from university added to dual degrees in biology and microbiology. But, it all adds up to a biostatistician. He's basically trying to convince the powers that be that he'd be more valuable to the company if they'd spring for some uni courses in stats, maybe even an advanced degree so that he does have more formalized training in it.

Two adult cats and a seven-month-old kitten live with me. I have two extra-large litter boxes and one large litter box in my apartment. I hope this is enough, lol...

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