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    5. SCOOP ON A DAILY BASIS

    One of the main reasons why a litter box smells is because the cat owner is not scooping often enough. Litter boxes must be scooped daily, and if you are really diligent, twice a day, every day! There are new gadgets on the market that will allowed eliminated matter to be placed in them and stored up to a week or two at a time (depending how many cats you are scooping up after). The gadgets are designed to lock the odors inside until they are ready to be emptied. They are ideal for apartment dwellers that don't want to lug bags of cat elimination to the general garbage shoots every day.

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savestuff1

My cats did not like Worlds Best. Neither did I due to poor odor control & dust. Arm & Hammer is our choice. Works great!

April 21 2013 at 5:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
karmel.abdeljawad

good stuff

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Bonnie

I am about to have a granddaughter move in with me and that includes her cat. I don't have a cat and wanted to know if there is any possible precautions that I should take before the cat arrives that would assure me of no cat odor!

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jdhuegel1

Keep litter clean/fresh. No odor. Cats have virtually no smell outside their litterbox.

April 02 2013 at 3:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Kateri Holbert

We had one major problem with the closed in litter box. Our small elderly dog thought it was her bed and the cats had to wait for her to get out. LOL

March 22 2013 at 2:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
jkhjph

It's "chute" not "shoot"

March 02 2013 at 7:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
cgbf6

ok cat stink use baking soda if your cat is tossing litter out of box/pan get a big/deeper one or a box to put it in also one with a smaller hole that way stinkers cant just jump out of pan throwing litter also don't be cheap fill pan with enough litter then add some more all your worries are fixed

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Pam

Worlds Best Cat Litter and also Dr. Elsey's were actually the absolute worse on the dust residue for us.

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Pam

The odor is NOT the problem, it's the nasty dust that all cat litters leave all over the house!!! As long as you clean it out regularly no odor problem at all.

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pitbullmom49

I been using Fresh Step for years and to me I like the product I tried others but to me I find this one works great I have two cats. I tried scoop away but to me I prefer Fresh step.

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pitbullmom49

I uses Fresh Step for over 5 years and it seems to work great, I got two cats and I use the one that is suitable for odors.

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