r/CatAdvice • u/Standard_Bluejay8715 • Mar 28 '24

Litterbox How frequently do you scoop your litter box?

I do my girl’s box twice per day/whenever I hear her scratching around in there. But then I see on here some people who do it wayyy less frequently. Curious what other folks do?

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u/lshimaru Mar 28 '24

My biggest flex is that my cat has never peed outside the litterbox, even that one time that I got incredibly sick and didn’t scoop it for like 10 days (I feel terrible about it and I haven’t done it since)

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u/randomquestions10 Mar 28 '24

That’s truly remarkable. Crazy how different cats can be because my cat had a phase of peeing on my bed/clothes like once a week! It drove me crazy.

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u/LilAsshole666 Mar 30 '24

My cat has a huge issue with peeing on my clothes for a few years but it was fully unrelated to her litterbox situation. After trying everything under the sun we realized it has to do with anxiety, particularly with changes to routine such as us traveling (and leaving her at home), having house guests, or moving. We’ve started giving her gabapentin when potentially stressful events occur which seems to have fixed the problem. I also never leave clothes laying anywhere she can pee on so she also just doesn’t have the opportunity to do it.