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Okay so you’ve got your beloved feline friend at home with you now. You love and feel blessed for the cuddles, the games and just hanging out with your new kitty. However, the warm feeling benefits of having a brand new cat also comes with the practicalities such as showing your pet how to use a cat litter box or tray.
Using a cat toilet of sorts is something a kitty learns fairly naturally and quickly but it’s always helpful to have tips, as well as some of the disadvantages / advantages of each type of cat toilet that is available in the wide range found on the exciting Modern Pets online store.
First thing to note when choosing a cat litter product, as per expert website Ask the Cat Doctor.com suggests, is to make sure that the cat litter box or tray is large enough (depending on the size of your cat) to be as comfortable as possible. It should also contain enough litter material so that your cat can ‘dig and dig to their heart’s content so they can cover their eliminations as much as they wish’.
For the households that have more than one cat, pet website Animal Planet.com suggests the general rule of thumb is that the number of litter boxes should equal the number of cats, plus one. In other words, if you have one cat, there should be two litter boxes in your home. Two cats need three boxes, and so on. This is especially important for a cat that is having trouble using a litter box.
Experienced cat foster mum shares this view on website Petfinder.com, where she also recommends new adopters have two litter boxes per cat. “Some cats just don’t like sharing litter boxes, and this ratio lets each cat claim his own. Even if they don’t mind sharing, keeping extra litter boxes around ensures that, if one of your cats is using one litter box and the scary washing machine is running next to the litter box in the basement, there will still be an appropriate place for your other cat to relieve himself.”
Other tips to get your cat going instinctively and regularly to the toilet in its new cat litter box or tray are:
When choosing the right kind of cat toilet product for your cat there are of course many choices on the market. These can be broken into the main groups below:
There are a variety of basic and easy-to-use types of cat litter products which do not have top or cover.
Advantages: If your living space is large and your cat toilet can be placed away from human socialising spaces, then these litter boxes are a good option. Other advantages are:
Disadvantages:
There are many different styles and designs for this type of litter box including the ‘Corner hooded little trays’. Pet website The Cat Site.com describes this kind ‘as a triangular-shaped box intended for use in the room's corner. It can be high-sided or of regular height and it can even be a covered box. Its main advantage is aesthetic, in case you decide to place the box in the corner of a room’.
Also included in this group are ‘Top entry litter boxes’ - a type of enclosed litter box accessed from the top. Having the top entry can sometime prevent a cat from dragging the litter over the floor as they exit the litter box. However, it is not a good fit for really young kittens or an older cat that is ill.
Modern Pets offers a variety of enclosed cat litter products of which all have some kind of lid or hood which fully covers / encloses the cat toilet box.
Advantages: Expert website Love to Know.com gives the following advantages to purchasing an enclosed cat litter box:
Disadvantages:
The Self-Cleaning Cat Litter Box definitely deserves its own category. Fairly new on the market this box cleans itself, so that you don’t have to scoop out contents yourself. When your cat uses this type of box, the wet liquids soak through into the granules that are prepared to kill smells and bacteria and the solids are sent away by the box’s in-built mechanisms and sent down the drain.
The mechanisms then vigorously scrub and sanitise the granules inside the box with special solutions. The granules are then dried ready to be reused. These boxes will all have detailed activation instructions depending on the brand or make.
In this ever-changing modern world where comfort and ease is becoming the norm, this cat litter box is becoming more popular as it not only acts as a litter box; it is also a cat scratcher and a bed.
Therefore with this clever cat litter box, three of your cat's daily activities such as sleeping, playing and littering are essentially taken care of all in one product. The Moderna Cat Concepts 3-in-1 features a cosy washable bed, scratcher pole with toy, two solid latching locks and a charcoal filter that absorbs unwanted litter box odours.
To view all of Modern Pets cat litter boxes or tray, click here.
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