I rescued my latest cat about 6 weeks ago. Prior to doing that I spent a great deal of time researching litter and litter boxes including litter box size. I decided on Pine petts for litter and both my cat an I are very happy with the result.. Inexpensive, no odor and easy to take care of.
This left me with one major decision, selecting a litter box that would work well with the Pine Pellets. Watching some youtube videos and reading many posts on litter boxes, I determined that the experts recommended getting a litter box that was one and a half times the length of the cat, the typical cat being around 18 inches from nose to beginning of tail. Anything smaller than that would result in the cat feeling cramped in a box that was too small, and in many cases eventualy winding up in a cat developing litter box issues. Since it is common knowledge that many cats are brought to shelters or worse euthanized by owners that are faced with a cat not using the litter box anymore, this is something that I wanted to avoid. This meant that for my 10 pound cat, and litter box should be around 18 plus 9 inches ot close to 27 inches long. Guess what, there are hardly any boxes that are sold that are larger than 18 inches at most. I finally found a sifting litter box that is around 23" long, the SoFresh Lift to Sift Litter box sold by Petco. I even looked at the one box that is actually made for Pine Pellets, but it is only 18 inches in length, so I ruled that box out as being way to small.
Now why the industry continues to manufacturer most litter boxes that are too small for the average cat, is beyond my understanding. The self cleaning boxes are even worse, because part of the box is taken up by the mechanism. Anyone else have thoughts on ths issue?
This left me with one major decision, selecting a litter box that would work well with the Pine Pellets. Watching some youtube videos and reading many posts on litter boxes, I determined that the experts recommended getting a litter box that was one and a half times the length of the cat, the typical cat being around 18 inches from nose to beginning of tail. Anything smaller than that would result in the cat feeling cramped in a box that was too small, and in many cases eventualy winding up in a cat developing litter box issues. Since it is common knowledge that many cats are brought to shelters or worse euthanized by owners that are faced with a cat not using the litter box anymore, this is something that I wanted to avoid. This meant that for my 10 pound cat, and litter box should be around 18 plus 9 inches ot close to 27 inches long. Guess what, there are hardly any boxes that are sold that are larger than 18 inches at most. I finally found a sifting litter box that is around 23" long, the SoFresh Lift to Sift Litter box sold by Petco. I even looked at the one box that is actually made for Pine Pellets, but it is only 18 inches in length, so I ruled that box out as being way to small.
Now why the industry continues to manufacturer most litter boxes that are too small for the average cat, is beyond my understanding. The self cleaning boxes are even worse, because part of the box is taken up by the mechanism. Anyone else have thoughts on ths issue?