It is not only in the warm season that one often has the problem that the Litter box smells, even though it has been freshly cleaned. But there can be many reasons for this. Here we give a few tips so that the litter box odor can be avoided:
Avoid litter box odor
Remove and renew litter
If there is too little litter in the litter box, it seeps through to the bottom of the box, which then smells unpleasantly sharp. It is best to clean the litter box several times a day. This means removing the feces with a scoop and, in the case of clumping litter, the clumps with urine.
Every one to two weeks the litter completely renewed and the cat litter box should be wet-cleaned.
Cat litter can be bought in pet stores, or also online such as on Amazon: Cat litter on Amazon: Cat litter
Cleaning the litter box
To clean the litter box completely, one uses dish soap coffee powder vinegar cleaner. Of course, the right litter is also always very important, but here you should try for yourself which one you get along with best and, above all, which one the cat likes. There are cats that cannot do anything with very fine sand because it always sticks to their paws, whereas sand that is too coarse is usually rejected because it pricks their paws.
Reduce odors
To mitigate the odors from the pet's litter box, you can put a little baking soda under the litter. This reduces the odor.
under the litter.
The right litter boxLast but not least, the right litter box is of course crucial; open toilets usually smell more. The cat toilets with a hood usually have a swing door becomes super clean if you put it in a highly concentrated mixture of warm water and dish soap and let it soak for a longer time. If there are still residues visible, remove them with a simple dish brush. If the filter is too heavily soiled, it should be cleaned with an alkaline kitchen cleaner. Rinse the filter with hot water and dry it off. Now the clean filter can be reinserted. and a
. This keeps the smell in the box; however, the filter must be changed occasionally.Cat litter box
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Photo by Janine, meinhaushalt.at
02/21/2012 at 23:08