Mary Allen
When the cat leaves the litter box relieved, it is rid of its little disposal problem. As a cat owner, you have this: what to do with cat excrement and urine and old cat litter? With the right tricks, cleaning the litter box can quickly become routine. The disposal of the legacies and the cat litter is actually not that complicated.
How Often Should I Change Cat Litter?
A cat without digestive problems will normally use the litter box once or twice a day to defecate and about five times to urinate. Depending on the dietary fiber content, age, and habits of the cat, there are of course individual toilet frequencies. As long as the animal does not deviate significantly from this guideline value, it is initially used as an indicator of the usual “degree of soiling” of the litter box.
How often you have to change cat litter depends on the specific conditions at the location, how busy the litter box is, and how heavily it is used. If it is an exclusive toilet for a house cat kept alone, it is sufficient if you use clumping litter if you examine the cat litter once a day with the litter scoop. Sieve out solid material – i.e. feces and the chunks that the cat’s urine forms in the bedding material. If there are several cats in the household and they use the same toilet, you should check more often, two to three times a day. Even if the cat suffers from an acute gastrointestinal upset and defecates or urinates more often, it must be cleaned quickly in the interests of hygiene. You fill up the litter material that you remove together with the feces. A complete change of litter in the tub should then take place at least twice a month, also depending on the number of cats.
Use non-clumping litter, also remove solid feces daily. However, the contents of the tub have to be completely replaced much more often. You should refill the tub at least once a week. Use the opportunity when the toilet pan is empty for thorough cleaning and disinfection.
If your cats are outdoors, regularly changing the cat litter and cleaning the toilet is even more important: During trips outdoors, the cats can come into contact with substances that should not be spread through cat excrement that is left lying around for a long time.
Disposal Tip: Cat Droppings and Litter in the Trash Can
So now you’ve removed the feces and clumps of urine from the litter box. What now?
A common way of disposing of used cat litter is with household waste. However, many cat owners shy away from simply throwing the cat’s feces into the trash can. A product from the shopping department for other four-legged friends can help: the kind of poop bags that dog owners take with them when they go for a walk are also available in a biodegradable version and are recommended if the household waste should not or cannot be emptied every day. The cat droppings are kept moisture- and odor-tight.
In addition, cat litter disposal buckets are also available for odor-free and convenient disposal, so that the daily trip to the garbage can is saved.