There are few smells worse than the smell of cat litter lingering on long past it’s expiration date and unfortunately that expiration date comes about 24 hours after the offending act. Caring for your cat’s litter box is not a chore to be missed.
Here are a few quick tips:
- Use scoopable litter and scoop twice a day. Regular scooping gets rid of the offending odor. As you scoop, add litter as needed to ensure that your cat box has a good layer for burying. After you scoop, you may want to sprinkle the top of the litter with either baking soda or the Ultimate Litter Box Odor Destroyer, even if you’re using an odor control little.
- Once a week, dump out all the cat litter and thoroughly clean the floor around the cat litter pan. Keeping the litter pan on tile or ceramic floor can help out with litter odor problems that are coming from carpet or a rug around the box. If you have the box on a throw rug – make sure that this rug is washed once a week, too. Scrub out the cat litter box with a disinfectant or with white vinegar before you replace the litter. Make sure that everything around the litter box is clean. As you know, it’s easy for a cat to get urine outside the box, too. You can also vacuum up scattered litter before you put the box back.
- Use the layered trick: Before you put the litter box back, add a thin layer of litter and then a layer of baking soda, carpet and room deodorizer or litter box odor control product. Then add another layer of litter and then finish with another layer of your odor control mechanism. This way, as your cat scratches after eliminating, they’re infusing odor control all through the litter.
Have you tried plastic cat litter box liners?
Plastic liners work much like garbage bags. You line the litter box with the plastic and then when it’s time to do the weekly dump, you just gather up the liner like a garbage bag, tie it off and throw it away. With these liners, you should have little scrubbing to do, since the cats are not going directly into the box.