Habitude

By Sugar

October 28, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this

We have two kitty boxes, side by side in the laundry room, downstairs in the basement.

By lots2say

October 28, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

yeah don’t have a cat The litter box is the #1 reason why we didn’t get another cat after our last one died.

By Gram

October 28, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this

Anyone with kitty litter boxes in their living quarters is NASTY. If your cat won’t go outside like a normal animal, that’s sickening, not to mention dirty, and unhealthy. Do you know how many diseases you can pick up from cat feces? And it’s especially dangerous if you are pregnant or have small children around. I couldn’t live with nasty “toosie rolls” in my home. And don’t think the litter box is the only place they go. They are sneaky and urinate in the most unlikely places, making your home smell. I can tell a cat owner as soon as I walk in their front door. It’s an unmistakable stink.

By coj

October 28, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this

I’ve got two Litter Maid contraptions that collect feline waste in our household. One upstairs and one downstairs. There is no attempt at hiding them because if we did that they would not be used.

By Booboo

October 28, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

Gram,

You’re an idiot ! I’m a cat and probably cleaner than you are.

Booboo

By etkp

October 28, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

Gram, Do you think an animal that goes outside is any better? What about whatever they step in while outside and bring in on their paws? That mess gets all over your house too! And you can’t even imagine all the germs that come in that you can’t see. You are most likely one of those people who wear their shoes around the house with out a second thought too!

By RT

October 28, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

Gram,

Obviously you have never had a cat. You do not walk them or just let them out in the yard to go to the bathroom like a dog! And, if people clean out their cat’s litter box on a regular basis, it does not stink.

By Booboo

October 28, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this

Gram,

You’re an idiot ! I’m a cat and probably cleaner than you are.

Booboo

By Pearl

October 28, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this

We taught our kitty to use the toilet. We just check it a few times a day, flush, and wipe with Clorox spray. She’s pretty regular so we know when to check the toilet. The training was pretty easy and, even though we have more than one restroom, she only uses the one in which she was trained. Check out the Citikitty toilet training kit on Amazon.com.

By ed

October 28, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this

Gram, Your house would probably smell better if you did have cats. I am sure your nose is up in the air like you do smell cat feces. You are an idiot.

By koala

October 28, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this

I wish I could trust my cats to use the toilet. I’m sure they’d just sit there all day, flushing…. They love water, they love drinking out of toilets, so getting them to do their business in one would probably not work for us. We have two litter boxes in the basement bathroom. We also have one of those electric air purifiers down there. Works like a charm. Clean the boxes every morning — wake up, feed cats, scoop litter, wash hands, take shower, blah blah. It’s the daily ritual!

Oh, and Gram is just some fool who has no idea about anything.

By MEOW!

October 28, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this

Okay Gram,

Come to my house and lets see if you can smell the kitties. I bet you smell more than they ever had! As for letting them out to use the bathroom and then track in dirt and diseases.. sure! Go back to walking your smelly dog!

By Pen

October 28, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

I have a piece of furniture that my father in law made out of an old bathroom cabinet. It looks like a nice credenza and it sits in my bedroom. We have cut a hole into the side of it and placed a kitty door in it. We also laid astroturf down on the inside. Now he has his own bathroom, we never smell a thing and noone ever has to see the litterbox! It’s great!!

By Kim

October 28, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

Why give gram what he wants??? Anyway. I have this small closet under my stairs that I keep electronic stuff in and my two litter boxes. I use a door jam to keep the dog out of the litter box cafe & all is fabulous @ my house.

By KitKat

October 28, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this

Gram why are you blogging here if you dislike cats so much. Go find a NASTY dog to walk. At least cats cover their waste, unlike dogs. Some people are just ignorant and like to make comments on subjects they know nothing about.

By John

October 28, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

I added a kitty door to a wall that adjoins my garage. Inside the garage I built an enclosure that doubles as a storage table. Add a door with a latch, some ventilation holes, and a cat box, and bam! no cat box in doors.

The little odor that is caused from the box is contained to the garage, the box it out of site, and the litter is knocked off on a mat inside the box.

By Jaine

October 28, 2008 4:41 PM | Link to this

I’d rather my kitty go in her own potty than in my flower garden…yuk! If you feed them a pure food like IAMS, they don’t go that much anyway - and, again, thanks to IAMS, I have never ever smelled anything when my kitty “does her business”.

By bronxchic

October 28, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this

I have 4 kittens and 2 cats now i have rescued them from the street. I have 2 litter boxes. They are by my washer/dryer. I change them EVERY day. Even if you do smell them - so what!!!! I love my girls and guys tremendously…I also have 2 girl dogs. I’ll say this much- I wouldn’t change a thing. My cats are all indoor-would never let them outside, To many crazies here w/all the dog fighting going around. So what if my house it not perfect- my babies love me (as long as I feed them and love them and take them to the vet - )Where I go they go, litter box and all.

By Lisa T

October 28, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this

El cheap-o solution that works for us: I have an old table in the sunroom that’s covered with plants - we covered it with a floor-length tablecloth hiding the kitty litter box underneath the table. I clean the box religiously every morning and no one ever knows it’s there.

By ATLkittee

October 28, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this

Hey Gram - I hate it for you if you ever have a kid AND HAVE TO CHANGE A DIAPER!!! “I have friends with kids and I can smell them as soon as I walk into their house…” see how rediculous that sounds?

By Marilyn

October 28, 2008 6:44 PM | Link to this

Hey - any suggestions for apartment dwellers? I have two bedrooms, the litter box is in the spare, but I don’t want to leave it there when guests come. I like the idea about putting underneath a table, but that would need to be in my room. I only have one bathroom. My kitchen is pretty small and the washer & dryer is in the kitchen. I could put it in the bathroom, but just haven’t decided.

I also agree with the food you choose. My cat eats IAMS and I can never smell her tootsie rolls.

By ron

October 28, 2008 6:49 PM | Link to this

Dear Gram,I’ve had cats for at least 40 years and have never had a kitty litter box.My cats always go outside.I couldn’t imagine having a litter box in the house.I too have seen the stinky things and don’t care for them.I don’t think cats do either.I find cats to be very clean animals if given half a chance.

By Lauren

October 28, 2008 6:49 PM | Link to this

Our litter box is in a corner of the sunroom with a decorative screen in front of it. That way the area looks nice and kitty has her privacy. Gram, do you think your sh%t doesn’t stink? I imagine it smells worse than any litter box. Your breath probably stinks, too.

By Gram

October 28, 2008 6:58 PM | Link to this

Yes, I have had cats. That’s why I’ll never own another one. I have YET to see a cat “step in poop” and bring it indoors, or my dog for that matter.

Cats have a very strong odor when they urinate, and if you disagree, then you have no sense of smell. I don’t care what you say, having a boxfull of cat poop in your house, and a cat spraying where they choose is just plain NASTY.

By Gram

October 28, 2008 7:06 PM | Link to this

Yeah, my stuff stinks, just like yours. I just don’t leave it laying around the house in a little box of sand that does NOTHING to control the odor and disease it harbors. Would you let a dog poop on paper in a corner of your living room? Same difference. Would you let your children crawl on the floor where you cats sprayed and/or flung their dirty “sand”? Not me. I’ll give them the fact that they bury their poop, but they don’t always manage to do it efficiently. When they scratch the sand (poop included), it tends to go everywhere, including OUTSIDE of the litter box. I guess you sterilze the area you keep their box in regularly, right? I seriously doubt it. If you don’t care that they relieve themselves in your home, you probably don’t care that their “stuff” gets scattered.

By Marilyn

October 28, 2008 7:08 PM | Link to this

Hey Gram - I agree that cat urine is very strong. However, my current cat is a female, and I have noticed that I can hardly smell the urine in her litter box, maybe she just goes less, as she is about 15 pounds lighter than my previous cat. Also, if your cat wasn’t spayed/neutered, I think that can make a difference. Anyway, you have made it clear you don’t like cats.

I agree with the dirty diaper smell, I don’t have kids, and have changed about 2 in my life, but it’s a smell much worse than cat poop or urine. Geez…

By Lynda

October 28, 2008 7:21 PM | Link to this

Let’s make Gram live outside in his bubble. I’d rather pet a cat than touch most door handles. Do us all a favor (especially cats) and continue to lead a miserable life ALONE.

By DD

October 28, 2008 9:46 PM | Link to this

Hey Gram,

Do you wanna wager that any kitty litter box has less harmful germs than your kitchen sink?

By Lindsay Jackson

October 28, 2008 10:09 PM | Link to this

I’ve seen a few different options to hide your litter box in apartments. One is around $100 and looks like a white wood cabinet. You can sit things on top of it and the litter box is in the door underneath. I also saw one in the Skymall catalog on a flight that looks like a clay pot but has a hole in it that the cat can use to enter. I really like the covered litter boxes because they do help to keep the litter inside of it.

By MomHenry

October 28, 2008 10:37 PM | Link to this

Gram…you’re just outing your friends and the fact that they don’t care for their cats properly. I have had cats since I was 15, and they have NEVER had a smelly litter box. it’s all in care and cleaning…and people who don’t do that shouldn’t have a pet.

By Chrissy

October 29, 2008 7:41 AM | Link to this

Thank you, Gram! I could not have said it better myself!

For those not understanding Gram’s remarks, when you live with the odor, you tend to become immune to the odor. Just like a lot smokers do not think that cigarettes stink, a lot of cat owners do not realize how much the litter (and its contents) cause an odor in their homes.

If you watch home buying shows on HGTV, TLC, etc., people on the shows usually can tell when their is a cat in the house because of the smell…..

By Rita

October 29, 2008 7:46 AM | Link to this

I put my kitty litter box in the cabinet under the sink in the bathroom. Once you train your cat where it is kept. It is out of the way, no one sees it. And if you clean it each day there is no smell!!!!!!!!!!!

By KL

October 29, 2008 7:51 AM | Link to this

Friends of ours had a clever way to hide the litter box. They put it in a closet and then cut out a hole in the wall that looked like a large mouse hole. Finished it with molding and it looks cute and hides the litter box. I thought that was very clever!

By Hora

October 29, 2008 8:08 AM | Link to this

Hey Gram, gimme your address, I’ll come over and s** on newspaper in the corner.

By LH

October 29, 2008 8:08 AM | Link to this

Hey Gram, gimme your address, I’ll come over and s** on newspaper in the corner.

By AL

October 29, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this

When we remodeled, giving my 3 cats a discreet place to take care of business was imperative.

Inspired by Rube Goldberg, voila! The cats have a little door of their-own next to the entry to our master bath. It takes them to a chamber beneath the built-in bench in our large stall shower, then to a treaded ramp, hinged to the basement ceiling that drops them down to the cellar floor level. The ramp can be easily hoisted out-of-the way for access to some of the mechanical and storage areas of the basement. The cat door, above, is framed-out for easy closure with sheet-rock, should a future owner not be as enthusiastic a feline fancier.

By Gram

October 29, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this

@Chrissy…THANK YOU. These cat owners think their cat’s s* don’t stink (pardon the pun), and continue to make stupid comparisons, i.e. “I’ll bet your s* stinks, too”. Well, I don’t crap in a little box in the corner and leave it. I use a nice little invention called a TOILET. It flushes mine. I’m not against cats, per se…I’ve had more than my share of them, and the litter box is the main reason I don’t have them anymore. People like Hora probably DO crap in a corner and his/her comment shows just how uneducated he/she is. I can walk into ANY of your homes ANY day of the week and tell if you have a cat or not. Like Chrissy says…you become accustomed to the odor and you don’t notice it, but someone who doesn’t have cats will notice it immediately. The smoker anaolgy is a good one. The smoker doesn’t notice the smoke smell because they are around it all day, but the non-smoker will smell it immediately. Cat owners, realize that your pets are wonderful, fluffy little “children” that you love, but it’s just DIRTY to have a nasty litter box in your home.

By Concerned

October 29, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

Here’s just one nice little thing you can get from your litter box:

“Cats can become transmitters of toxoplasmosis, a disease they can get by eating wild rodents or birds infected with a common parasite called Toxoplasma gondii. This parasite can also be passed along in raw or undercooked meat that cats eat at home. Once eaten, it multiplies in the cat’s intestine and is excreted in its feces.

If you change any cat litter that contains this parasite — or touch anything else that has touched the infected feces — and aren’t scrupulous about washing your hands, you could accidentally ingest the parasite by touching your hands to your mouth. In its patient education pamphlet, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) notes that the infection can spread to someone who breathes in the parasite’s eggs, although other sources do not indicate that the infection can be spread through the air. The organism can then produce an infection that you can pass along to an unborn baby.”

I don’t want to be around your cat’s excrements.

By Gram

October 29, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this

Comparing a pet’s poop to changing a baby’s diaper is utterly ridiculous. It just shows that you have no educated response to the fact that a litter box is NASTY. I have 2 kids. I changed many diapers, but I didn’t toss them into a corner of my house. Obviously, some of you did. Babies don’t naturally spray or go to a litter box, so your comparison is little more than humorous.

By Gram

October 29, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

For those than continue to call me “he”, or whatever, I thought even YOU could figure out that Gram is short for Grammaw. I’ve never seen so many people in one place defending cat crap in their homes. Cats are great little entertainers, but what they “leave behind” is not so wonderful. They scatter litter/poop/urine every time they scratch in their box. Even the enclosed ones. When I had my cats, (for those of you who think I hate cats) I had one of those fancy ones with a swinging door, and a “comb” that would automatically sift the sand after the cat left the box. Even they don’t get it all. ONE tiny little “clump” of urine/sand is enough to stink up the house. I speak from experience. Unless you change the litter every time they go, you WILL have odor. Have your cats. Enjoy them! But I don’t want them in my home anymore.

By melodie

October 29, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

I am so glad to see that at least a few people here sound like they have some since. I have four cat’s, they have the covered litter boxes and I clean them every day. They make special mat’s to place in front of the litter boxes that clean the litter off kitties feet so it does not get tracked. I have had guest tell me they would never know I had cat’s if they did not see them. I have had my cat’s spayed or neutered as soon as they were old enough. If you have a male cat neutered before he starts spraying urine, he will not start. My cat’s cannot carry the “dreaded” toxoplasmosis that Concerned spoke of because they do not go outside. They do not kill and eat rat’s, mice, birds, squirrels, etc and I do not feed them table scrapes. Although I must say if you are pregnant and have a cat that goes outside, please have someone else clean the litter box! Also my cat’s were de-wormed as kittens and have been checked yearly for parasites since. They have never had to be de-wormed since. All you have to do is take care of your cat’s and keep your litter box clean. If someone really dislikes cat’s so much, they should not come to my house.

By fitz

November 28, 2008 9:07 PM | Link to this

anything that leaves a box of crap and pee in your home does not belong there.

By Victor R

December 4, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this

all you cat owners should check out the CatGenie. All this crap about cat crap would be flushed out of your minds and lives. We have one and we don’t worry about germs and odors being tracked around the house by our cats. BTW, we never buy litter. This appliance-toilet uses a permanent type of granule. Worth every dollar not to have to deal with germ infected cat poop and pee AND no more litter in our lives. Check it out and stop with litter horror stories.