Buy Designer Catbox Litter Box Enclosure in WhiteDesigner Catbox Litter Box Enclosure in White Product Description:
- Designed to fit a standard large sized litter pan
- An interior panel and staggered entrance prevents litter from being kicked onto the floor
- Hydralic safetyl hinge holds up the lid for easy cleaning
- Constructed with high quality wood with a glossy, non-toxic, lead-free paint
- Included hook allows you to hang the litter scoop or air freshener
Product Description
The Designer Catbox is a perfect solution to help keep your litter box concealed, but easily accessible to your cats. This elegant piece of furniture is a stylish addition to any home, and also helps to minimize odor and prevent litter from being kicked o
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Purrrfect Product
By R. Netanel
I bought this product for my laundry room. I needed a litter box enclosure that wouldn't take up much room and would help control the litter from getting all over the floor. It's the perfect size and my cats started going into it right away without any problems. It looks great, was easy to assemble, and is very sturdy. It also controls odor much better than a litter box alone. The only issue is that one of the cats tends to pee outside the litter box, so pee was leaking into the enclosure. I solved this problem by placing the litter box inside a jumbo litter box liner (the whole thing fits and I use a large litter box). I now simply throw away the soiled liner, wipe the bottom of the box with clorox wipes and place it inside a clean liner. In the future I may purchase one of the litter boxes with the higher sides to eliminate this problem all together, but it's not a huge deal. I love the way the Designer Catbox looks and I'm very happy with my purchase!
37 of 41 people found the following review helpful.
Loved it, liked it, and then wished it was better ... until I finally got rid of it.
By April Martinez
I searched long and hard for a good quality cat box cover before I settled on this one -- it had great reviews, and I really liked the look of it and the fact that I can determine which side it opens to. I was already really happy with my plain old litter box out in the open -- it was big and set on top of a mat; it was easy to keep clean, and I never really had any problems with that set up whatsoever.What prompted me to look for a cover is the fact that I have a small niece now, and I wanted to be able to invite family over to a childproof house where toddlers couldn't easily get at a dirty cat box. So I got this enclosure. I loved it in the beginning, but now that I've lived with it for a while, there are quite a few things about it that I would change before I could be really satisfied with the product.PROS:1. Easy enough for one person to assemble -- though they recommend a second person, especially for the attachment of the lid, I was able to rest the lid on a step stool, adding books for height, and attached the lid by myself that way. Took maybe half an hour.2. Looks great and has a clean, simple style that matches most decor -- it actually fits perfectly in the corner where I have it, on top of the same cat box mat I used before I got the enclosure, and it matches the walls. I would have preferred a natural wood color to match my furniture, but the only other options available were black and a dark brown called espresso.3. Lid has a safety hinge -- I love this feature as I don't have to hold it open with one hand while I clean out the cat box with the other. Also, at first, I would leave it open for better ventilation, but I stopped doing that the night one of my cats frightened me by jumping on top of it and slamming it down, waking me from a sound sleep. I keep it closed now except to clean it.4. Hook to hang scoop on the inside -- though my scoop is actually too big (too long) for me to use it in that way. I do, however, use the hook to hang an air freshener.5. Fairly easy to wipe clean -- except for a few spots, if it gets dirty on the inside, you can easily wipe the surfaces clean. I recommend you don't use any spray cleaners that have any ammonia in them, as I've found it only increases any bad smells. I personally use Simple Green, which helps not only in cleaning the enclosure but in neutralizing any smells.CONS:1. Doesn't fit flush against the wall -- it would, if the lid were designed differently. I like the look of the lid, with the back and side pieces of wood on top, but the pieces of wood keep you from opening the lid if you have this enclosure flush against the wall. A better design would involve an extra piece of wood and a few more screws, the hinges placed in a slightly different place -- that way you could still have the decorative top. Or you could eliminate the decorative bits on top entirely. Either way would allow you to have the enclosure against the wall as you opened and closed the lid.2. A little too small for messy or bigger cats -- I had to buy a smaller litter box to fit, and that would have been fine if my older cat didn't need the bigger box to begin with; she tends to miss the box because she's not too bright, is a little long, and has bad aim, so with this new set up now, she urinates a little bit outside the box and leaves a wet mess on the inner surfaces of the enclosure. Before, I only ever needed to scoop daily and do some other maintenance cleaning once a week. Now, I have to clean the area everyday or suffer the bad smell constantly. It's why I have an air freshener in the enclosure; I sorely need it. I have tried to counter this problem by using absorbent pads normally used for housebreaking dogs. I cut them to size so they fit in the two inner areas so that urine is absorbed and isn't left standing. I still have to clean the box every few days, especially to change the padding, but at least it is a little easier. If I *don't* use the padding, the urine pools underneath the litter box, coating the bottom surface of the cat box, and I have to remember to place the cat box on something other than my carpet or the wetness transfers to the carpet, too.3. Not quite as waterproof as it could be -- for the most part it is, as the walls wipe clean and the urine mostly stands and isn't so obviously absorbed, but the inner threshold was ruined within the first week of use. I don't know how or why as the paint looks the same throughout, but the paint started cracking there in a day or two after being wet with urine ... and this was back when I was cleaning the thing everyday, so there should have been no reason for it to happen. I can only guess that it wasn't treated the same as the other wooden surfaces. The inner threshold now looks horrible. Not only that but that inner piece of wood that separates the enclosure into two rooms has now soaked in a good bit of moisture and is somewhat swollen at the bottom. It's not too apparent, but I can feel the rough surface of the wood at the bottom part of that wooden piece; it feels like what particle board feels like when it gets wet. Everywhere else is smooth but there.4. The inside could have been better designed -- I would have preferred an inner separator I could easily remove, maybe one you could slide in and out instead of screwing in permanently, if not for easier cleaning then for opting whether or not to even use it. But if it were designed to slide in and out, I could have used the absorbent pads without cutting them to size -- place the pad at the bottom, then slide the separator in place. Or I could have left the separator out entirely and used the bigger cat box that I had, which would have eliminated messes with urine in the first place and would have made the entire enclosure the perfect size. Also, the corners where the pieces of wood are joined are weak areas vulnerable to wet messes. Litter sand gets in those corners, too. I found myself using the wiper blade on my OXO deep clean brush set to get at the wet sand stuck in the corners. I often judge things by how easy they are to clean or maintain, and the design of this thing has just made it a pain for me to deal with in the long run. I want something easier to clean.5. Could have come with custom waterproof mats to fit on the bottom -- something made of plastic or rubber with a cupped design that ran up the walls a little to contain fluids, something I could easily remove and wipe clean before placing it back in the enclosure. Maybe there could even be a piece to put over the threshold to protect that area. These are just things I find myself wishing for when I have to clean the enclosure yet again.So ... all in all, not bad, but it could be better. I think next time, I'll have something custom-made as I have a better idea now what I would want for a cat box enclosure.UPDATE: About a month after I originally wrote this review, I got rid of the enclosure. The smells just got worse and worse until I couldn't stand it any more -- I could smell the thing from the other room. Regularly cleaning the enclosure didn't help. Once the urine gets soaked into the wood, there's no going back. It wasn't just the bottom of the partition any more; the front piece of wood also got soaked, and you could feel the roughness in texture where it used to be smooth. The back piece was soaked also, which I discovered later, and urine had actually leaked out onto the mat beneath the enclosure. Given how much I spent on this thing, I was not happy about getting rid of it, but I'm sensitive to smells and didn't want to live where it smelled like a back alley. I went to PetSmart and shopped around for a covered litter pan -- I got the Catit Jumbo Hooded Cat Litter Pan - Warm Gray, by the way, and more than a month later I'm still very, very happy with it -- and took the designer cat box enclosure to the dumpster. Unlike when I first set it up, I had to get help this time because it's bulky and impossible for one person to carry, and because of the soaked wood I really didn't even want to consider taking it apart first. I remove the lid and the hinge hardware, though; they were untouched by urine and might be useful for a project one day, so I kept them. So, for the $120 I spent, I have some hinges and something I might be able to turn into a lap desk of some kind.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Cat spa day!
By Devalyne
Love this cat box! We upgraded it with a few tweaks for our cat, and she loves it! No more litter on the floor or unsightly litter box. We have this sitting in our master bathroom. It blends right in and looks like a storage chest. We did not use the inner wall of the box, but put a litter mat on the floor of the catbox, & a litter box that fits in the back half of the cat "room" (18.5" front to back fits in just perfectly, and half the length of the cat"room"). We put a motion-sensing battery operated stick up light just inside the door to the box so it turns on when she goes in. We put a cat bed on top of the box, and have found the cat hanging out there when we come home from work. She loves it! I'll do a video review soon. We'll be buying two more of these as soon as we can!
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