What does everyone use to store their cat litter scoop?

[jahzara]

I just keep mine in a boring small shipping box.

I’m interested to see if anyone has come across any unique finds or creative diy options.

 

[maggie101]

Small trash can

 

[DeesCats]

I keep 1 litter scoop and poop bag in an old premixed drywall compound bucket and the other 2 scoops and poop bags in empty 5 lb fish food pellet buckets. I've been using them for years, just clean them and the scoops regularly just like the litter boxes. I did remove the metal bail handles though as they get in the way.

 

[game misconduct]

an empty tidy cats containeri just cut out a hole on one side

 

[tarasgirl06]

In a corner of the box itself. It very rarely gets knocked into the box. I have a scoop in most boxes for convenience.

 

[iPappy]

I have clean litter stored in a large-ish tidy cats box next to the box. Behind that is a very old square plastic box with a tight lid that I keep an empty garbage bag in that the waste goes into and the lid kept tightly shut. When the square box is full, I tie the bag up, toss it, and replace.

 

[tarasgirl06]

I have clean litter stored in a large-ish tidy cats box next to the box. Behind that is a very old square plastic box with a tight lid that I keep an empty garbage bag in that the waste goes into and the lid kept tightly shut. When the square box is full, I tie the bag up, toss it, and replace.

I do that too, taking the bag out daily every morning. I use a produce plastic bag, and it's inside a regulation rectangular plastic wastebasket that fits under the sink in the master bathroom. That is lined with a thicker handled plastic bag, and the produce bag goes inside that. Works really well. I have auto-delivery from petco (dot) com for the 30# litter buckets, and those are stored in the laundry room. Empty, they make great wastebaskets.

 

[iPappy]

I do that too, taking the bag out daily every morning. I use a produce plastic bag, and it's inside a regulation rectangular plastic wastebasket that fits under the sink in the master bathroom. That is lined with a thicker handled plastic bag, and the produce bag goes inside that. Works really well. I have auto-delivery from petco (dot) com for the 30# litter buckets, and those are stored in the laundry room. Empty, they make great wastebaskets.

Sarah has been having some very mild kidney issues, so keeping a scoop and bucket near the box is so much easier vs. taking it out each scoop. I can scoop throughout the day in order to keep her box cleaner, and she seems to appreciate it.

 

[neely]

I use a pail my sister gave me with the logo from the university where her husband, (my brother-in-law), taught. I didn't have the heart to tell her that though.

 

[IzzysfureverMom]

We keep clean litter in a small dog food storage container that I found on clearance. Steel litter scoop and a plastic putty knife is stored in a small paint bucket that has a flat back from a home improvement store and used litter is put in a tight sealing plastic container with a plastic bag inside.

 

[catloverfromwayback]

Mine just sits on the floor behind the litter, along with the long-handled brush and pan for sweeping the litter Phoebe hurls onto the floor. Both lean against the laundry tub, and when I have a spare litter bag, it sits there too.

 

[Kieka]

I have a litter genie which has a handy scope pocket. Really nice to just scope, dump into litter genie and scope itself goes on the side. Clean litter I reuse one of the tubs it came and pour it out.

 

[B-Dub]

One of my scoops has a stand thing that opens like a clam. The other one has a hole on the end and I hang it from a hook (one of those command adhesive ones you can stick to the wall). Depending on the hook you might want to fix a loop of thin rope or twine to the end to make it lay properly. I anchored the hook it right next to the litter box so it’s super handy.

 

[Kris107]

I have a fairly large scoop and I found a box at the grocery store works the best. It is the box that you have those pouched foods in? So like the pouches of Indian food or rice or what have you. I buy a couple and take the box.

 

[tabbytom]

This is my arsenal for scooping my boy's literbox. This is an older photo from the beginning and I still have the same stool and box but I do not use any of the scoops shown as I have changed the litter from Bentonite Clay to Tofu Cat litter and therefore these scoops are no longer in use.

The box is tucked under the small stool (that is use to sit on when I was scooping the letterbox when using the old litter) which is under a cat tree that my boy use to get up to the kitchen cabinet which is next to the litterbox.

Inside the box is the scoop, spatula. spoon and an ice cream tub with a plastic bag to dump his poo. Litter clumps are scooped onto newspaper.

This is the scoop in use now.

 

[Margot Lane]

When I had a cat I put the scoop in an old VHS box collector’s edition of Alfred Hitchcock movies, minus the movies. The box was velvety which gave it an odd elegant touch. Before putting in there I’d rather vehemently clean it outside with the hose set to “jet,” which did the trick, letting it air dry.

I wonder if anyone’s invented disposable scoopers, made, say, of…. well I don’t know what, but it’d save tackling the cleaning.

 

[Caspers Human]

We use an empty coffee container. The large, plastic kind with a snap-on lid. A hole is cut in the lid so the handle can stick out. The whole thing stays in the cabinet under the sink in the bathroom where the litter box resides.

Our scoop is made of metal. When it gets dirty, we take the whole thing, plastic container and all, down to the slop sink in the basement. Any loose material goes into the trash can. The plastic container is filled with hot water and Clorox. The scoop is cleaned, sanitized, rinsed and left to dry. The plastic container gets tossed out in the recycling bin and a new one takes its place.

Reduce, reuse and recycle! Right?

 

[Twylasmom]

I use the Litter Genie and appreciate the side pocket it has for the scoop. I use litter box wipes to clean the scoop, scoop pocket and other surfaces of the Litter Genie.

 

[jahzara]

This is my arsenal for scooping my boy's literbox. This is an older photo from the beginning and I still have the same stool and box but I do not use any of the scoops shown as I have changed the litter from Bentonite Clay to Tofu Cat litter and therefore these scoops are no longer in use.

The box is tucked under the small stool (that is use to sit on when I was scooping the letterbox when using the old litter) which is under a cat tree that my boy use to get up to the kitchen cabinet which is next to the litterbox.

Inside the box is the scoop, spatula. spoon and an ice cream tub with a plastic bag to dump his poo. Litter clumps are scooped onto newspaper.
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This is the scoop in use now.
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I’ve been interested to try the tofu litter. I’m curious how the litter clumps from urine but then dissolves in water so it can be flushed?

 

[Caspers Human]

You shouldn't flush any cat waste, at all, regardless whether it dissolves. Diseases like Giardia and Toxoplasmosis can survive in sewage and get carried downstream where they can spread.

Some diseases form spores that can be very hard to kill, even inside a waste treatment plant. Most municipal waste treatment facilities use chemical disinfectants capable of killing microorganisms but, during heavy storms, sewage plants can overflow and spill partially treated effluent into the environment.

If somebody, unknowingly, puts infected cat waste down the toilet and spores get out it can make other people and animals sick.

Cat waste needs to be double bagged inside a plastic bag and tied, securely, before being thrown in the garbage. Municipal landfills are often built with an impermeable layer of clay at the bottom to prevent undesirable things from getting into the environment.