Any tips to help our litter box smell like roses?

Baking soda is your new best friend. Pour some in the box under the litter and then sprinkle some on top too.

Are you using clumping?

@gemiwing :: I had thought of that. Does it kick up a lot of dust?

I should add that I change it everyday. It is that bad.

@johnpowell Nope. They also sell a ‘cat litter box deoderizer’ but it’s just baking soda with an extra two bucks added on to it.

@syz :: I believe it is the clumping type. But I am lazy and just replace it all in the morning. Pretty sure my sister will be pissed when she finds out. She buys the litter and food.

I just wanted to say that reading ” I woke up to a kitten licking my feet this morning ” made me smile!

~Maybe they stink because they lick your feet!~

Baking soda and Febreeze.

I just put down some baking soda. It makes sense. I put the stuff in my shoes to soak up the stench.

Just like baby human poo is much worse smelling than adult human poo, kitten poo is hell compared to adult cat poo. Scoop and flush the poo anytime it gets smelly. If you walk past the litter box and it smells, just scoop and flush. It’s annoying, but it won’t last forever.

Another idea that is a little more proactive – is there somewhere else that is isolated and little-used that you could put the litter box in? My mom never uses her front door, so the entrance hall is now a little kitty litter box room, with its own little kitty door and everything. She has four cats, so you may not wish to go to that kind of an extreme in the long haul, but something that will temporarily create a poo-zone that you can be isolated from would be good till they get a little bigger (and less smelly).

If kittens weren’t so frigging adorable… :)

Ooh, also, with the febreeze thing that @Cupcake just mentioned – I think that febreeze can be really bad for pets (despite their claims that it’s not). My aunt’s dog almost died from getting into the stuff, so be careful with it! Baking soda works just as well.

Vinegar in a jar near the litter box will help, too, and it’s cheap.

Plant roses in it.

http://www.armhammerpets.com/faq.aspx?id=5

Just a note – when you switch them off the organic hippy stuff, do it slowly. You have to mix in a little more of the new stuff every day and gradually wean them off the old food. Otherwise you may have more cases of upset stomachs, or kittens who refuse to eat.

Ooh. Hmm. Try Innofresh PET odor absorber. It’s a carbon filter.

Also change the litter pan as often as you can. They say you’re supposed to have one litter pan per cat. But one is okay for two cats, as long as it’s pretty big.

Fill it with roses and let the cat go outside

1) use clumping litter. It is sooo much better

2) use a cat box with a cover to it and face the opening away from you. This at least keeps the odor contained.

3) check to see if the kittens are properly covering up their poop. This is usually instinctive but they may need some demo help by you gently taking their paw and helping them to cover it up.

You shouldn’t really flush any kind of litter down the toilet, especially not clumping, unless you enjoy making regular contributions to the plumber’s kids college fund.

If you are there when they poop, you can either make sure it’s covered and the smell usually dissipates in a few minutes or you can scoop it out and put into a closed container. Smell gone.

The do sell these types of containers and liners, but I just recycle grocery bags and use an empty bucket with a tight lid. You can get a cheap five gallon bucket at a paint store.

I just keep re- using the square one in jumbo size in which the litter was purchased.

The larger litter sizes (25 lbs or so) come in real sturdy plastic buckets, the smaller ones in cardboard which obviously can’t be re-used.

If you are diligent about the scooping and baking soda, you can have a pretty odor free litterbox.

Mine is in the closet of my bedroom and others have commented that it doesn’t at all smell like cats.

Aside from the 5 mins or so immediately following the poop, mine just doesn’t smell. I scoop regularly.

Don’t forget to get them neutered when old enough. There is NOTHING WORSE than the stench of unaltered adult cat pee.

Enjoy the little darlings. They are definitely worth it.

I used to put borax in the litter, never tried baking soda. The borax worked pretty well. But if they don’t cover their poo completely, it’s still going to stink!!

Ozium! It’s by far the best air spray around. See my question from awhile back. The answer to my problem was to get an Ionic Breeze and use Ozium.

Use a rose scented carpet cleaner powder and sprinkle it on the cat sand.
Plug in a rose scented room deodorizer directly over the box.

Same problem with my kitten. She was also a giant poison gasbag, so it was hard to avoid. And due to college apartment setup, litter box had to be in my bedroom.

I used a litter box with a lid and a swinging door, clumping litter, and put dryer sheets in those little vents on the top. My kitten also never learned to cover up her stuff, so I’d often have to cover it for her with the scooper. In the end, I just scooped it every night.

I don’t know just how bad your kitten is, but i would definitely recommend the lid and swinging door first, and build up from there. I got mine from Walmart.

Has your kitten had a checkup? If it’s not the food, she might have something else making her so smelly. My kitten did eventually get out of the smelly phase but it took like 8 months or so.

“a giant poison gasbag”

Chuckle, chuckle

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:D

Turn the cat box into a window box and make that cat shit in a vase.

GQ!