People with an indoor cat and litter tray?
What can help to minimize the smell? I use a litter which says it helps to prevent oder, biscuits that claim to help reduce oder, and litter tray liners. Is there any specific food or litter which you’ve found particlarly good at reducing the smell? I’ve always had outdoor cats so this is all pretty new to me.
I put every cat poop i see straight down the toilet but it seems to be the pisss that’s the most potent, i change the whole tray every 2-3 days
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Any grain-free food will help reduce the smell of the poop. This is because cats can’t digest grains–especially corn–so the grains travel all the way through the digestive tract becoming very stinky along the way. Also, the grains cause more bulk (bigger poops) because they are not utilized. Some of the brands I feed my cats are Wellness, Merrick, and Blue Buffalo’s Wilderness (there are other grainfree brands too that would work just as well). If you are feeding dry food, switch to canned. Dry food almost always has the unnecessary fillers (I only know 2 completely grain-free brands of dry). There are other benefits to feeding canned food that I won’t get into here, but if you are interested google ‘cat nutrition’ and you will find a huge amount of information.
I find that clumping litter works best to control the odor of the urine since the clumps can be scooped throughout the day. I use Fresh Step Multiple Cats clumping formula because it gives me the hardest clumps and I never get that urine smell. I scoop the clumps and any poop twice a day. Please note that you can’t flush clumping litter so you will need an enclosed container to put the clumps in. I use the bucket with the lid that the litter comes in. I line it with a medium size garbage bag and bring the bag to the trash on trash pick up days.
One last thought…is your cat neutered? A non-neutered male will have extremely strong smelling urine. If that’s the case then get him neutered right away. If he already is, then thanks for being a responsible cat owner
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Try adding baking soda to the cat litter
I use Tidy Cat Scoop for multiple cats (I have 3) and have no problem with odor.
Is your cat covering it up? If not, cover it and let it sit and let the litter do it’s job for about 20 minutes and you should be good to go!
I have found that the litters that are scented actually make the smell worse. I use unscented clay litter and change it every 3 days.
Hey, You can go buy arm and hammer cat litter deodorizer from the grocery market.. Its just special scented baking soda, which helps with the urine smell alot.. You just sprinkle it on the litter, I do it once a day.. It works well, as does picking a good brand of cat litter.. Quite frankly, my cat is stinks up my bathroom of my 1 bedroom apartment so I quickly realized that most cat litter brands dont really do what they are advertised to do.. After brand shopping and months and months of testing different kinds, Id stand behind "Fresh Step" cat litter, its amongst the best Ive purchased… I also buy one of those renuzit air fresheners, I like the super odor killer scent, or the apple cinnamon scent, it really helps mask and cover any lingering smell. They cost a dollar each, and last about 2 weeks, so they are affordable.
And PS, dont throw cat poop down the toilet, it will clog your toilet believe it or not.. Put it in a plastic bag and dispose in the trash (just to save you some further trouble)….
Cat pee DOES smell because it is so concentrated. Do you feed them wet, or dry food? Wet is better and may help cut down the odor a BIT.
However. to reduce any odors, you need to scoop the pee at least once a day and replace it with fresh litter.
What litter are you using? There is clumping (which helps trap the pee) and non clumping (like clay, crystals, corn or wheat litter– or newspaper litter — which is what my cats use)
Are you filling the litter box too full? Depending on the litter-type used, an inch of litter maximum would IMHO be best for cutting down odors, becuz there is less liter to get stinky.
Cat POOP also leave an odor in the litter, so I scoop the boxes each time one of my 2 cats poops.They don’t care for smelly literboxes either.
I tried baking soda and Nil-Odor — none of which really seemed to help. Scooping is the best way to keep the smells down. Have had cats continuously since 1993.
Get a clumping litter and scoop it out every single day. I have 10 cats and 3 litterboxes, and that’s how we keep the smell down.
Also make sure your kitties aren’t peeing somewhere else or spraying to mark their territory. If they are, you’ll need a cleaner with enzymes to completely break down the smell so they don’t pee there again.
The healthier food you feed, the less odour. Absolutely healthiest is to feed raw diet. http://www.rawfedcats.org/
If you’re not willing to go that way, look for the best available within the commercial cat food products
I wouldn‘t really recommend feeding any dry food. Cats are designed to get their water from food. That’s the way nature designed them, they have low thirst drive. When fed dry, they won’t drink enough to compensate for the lack of moisture. They will only consume about 50% of the water they should be having. This can lead to kidney disease, UTI, crystals, blockage, renal failure and more. .
Free feeding also contributes to obesity. And the fact that dry food is over-processed means, that most of it’s little nutrition has been already destroyed, leaving almost no nutrients for your cat. It needs to eat more to meet it’s needs, and in the process consumes more calories from the fillers.
Btw wetting the dry food will not help. There’s bacteria on the kibble and the water would just allow it to grow.
The only way to give the cat it’s natural hydration is to feed it wet food only.
But some wet foods are not of a very high quality, either. That goes for most commercial foods. Just like the dry, they are often made with cheap fillers such as corn, wheat, soy, rice etc. These are not a part of cat’s natural diet (it’s an obligate carnivore – it eats meat) and they are not designed to digest it. Grain is carbohydrate which the cats can’t process and it turns into blood sugar and fat, causing diabetes and obesity. In the wild, where cats only hunt for meat, diabetes and obesity are unheard of. It’s us who cause these by feeding a species inappropriate food.
We usually read labels on our food, but rarely on the food for our cats. Learn to read the label and understand the ingredients. The healthiest food to feed apart from raw feeding is grain-free wet food with no by-product. Some good brands are Wellness CORE, EVO, Merrick, Nature’s Variety, Blue Buffalo Wilderness and more. These will give your cat the proper hydration and nutrition it’s designed to get and it will be strong and healthy.
If you switch it’s diet, do it gradually, by mixing the current food with the new one over couple of weeks until there’s only the new. This will prevent diarrhea and upset stomach.
You will probably get a lot of different answers, so google feline nutrition or look at the links below, and do the research for yourself. I personally wasn’t able to find one reliable source (besides the pet food industry) that would say grain is beneficial for cats or that dry is beneficial for them.
More on cat nutrition below,
Good luck!