10 Creative Litter Box Setups for Small Apartments (NYC Edition)

0:00 [Music] The main litter box setup is this. Two entrances here from the living room goes into the closet in the next room. So, I'll show you on the other side. Hopefully, they haven't done too much damage. Took care of it this morning, but this is their setup. And my husband installed a bathroom fan. You can

0:22 actually hear it a little bit. >> I can hear it. And, you know, I was expecting at least a litter smell and I cannot smell anything. Well, of course I just did like the deep litter clean out yesterday knowing that I was going to be like, "Look at this." >> When we moved into this place, we

0:36 debated about where to put it. There's issues everywhere with litter. Um, so my husband contacted our landlord and he was like, "Can we pull one of the closet doors off and can we replace it and then we'll put it back once we move out?" So he went and bought another closet door. He put a cat door in it and it took them

0:57 a little bit to get used to the cat door. We had it taped up for a little bit and then at some point they ate through the tape and then they kind of had to deal with it being closed so they got used to using it. Wow. >> A light in there. We have a little air freshener hidden somewhere.

1:10 >> Okay. Okay. >> Um doesn't smell like litter. >> We've gone back and forth about a lot of litter boxes. This one I like cuz you don't scoop it. It just rolls on its >> No way. top. You roll it back. Make sure all the litter is back and then everything is in the drawer. A friend had it and then we

1:31 watched their cats and I saw it and I was like, "This is perfect." It's a little easier. I'm not pulling everything apart to try to scoop everything, >> right? How often do you have to roll it? >> Um, I usually do it once a day. Do you have to do manual stimulation? >> Nope. He goes to the bathroom on his

1:45 own. He just uses pea pads instead of the litter box which really works for us. I can show you. This is my litter box closet and he just goes on these pea pads and that's it. And he cleans himself. He can eat. He can even get up the stairs. He can even get on my bed. It's not as easy for him. He was using

2:05 the box fine, but then when we moved to the closet, he just already used the pea pads. And it actually keeps them a little cleaner because he would do like the little dunk of his butt into the litter and it would get everywhere and it's much cleaner with the pee pad. So, it works out. So, we have two litter

2:20 boxes. This one they have their cute little door entry. We're super excited about installing that. They have a stainless steel litter box. This litter box has its own air filter. >> And it looks like they have a little uh brush entrance right here. Me, too. >> So, they get like a little desshedding.

2:36 >> Yeah. Liam actually takes off some of the litter. And then this is the second litter box. It also has its own air filter and it's a stainless steel. Wow. We got this actually off Amazon. The quality is really nice. We had this custom made for our old apartment, but it works so well. I really like that

2:56 they have privacy. I always kind of feel bad when you walk on a cat while they're peeing. So, I like that they have their own little space. They have a little curtain here and we can open it up to clean it out. We use Kitty Poo Club. So, they're like a subscription box and we change the box fully out every two

3:15 weeks. So, they have completely fresh litter in a completely fresh box. And we also have a litter genie. >> Got to have a litter genie. >> We love the litter genie. So, yeah, you just put the poop in there. >> They have no issues sharing the one. >> They really don't mind at all. No,

3:29 they're both good. Neither one has ever gone outside the box. So, the litter box is in this huge like furniture box. The main reason why we got this is because we didn't want it to look like just like a cat furniture thing. So, kind of like be able to hide the litter box inside. She goes through here. And the cool

3:48 thing about this, this thing is like scratchable. Sometimes she'll scratch on this. Not too much. She's not a huge fan, but it's there for that purpose. We have some other things which serves for storage for all of her things. >> Oh, nice. Um, so we have like her dry food, which is more like when we give

4:08 her like her snacks midday when we're not here, so she can think of us when we're away. Some catnip, which I don't really use that much. And then here we have like the rest of her toys. All the soccer balls. She loves doing this. And her dirty butt. Welcome. The litter that we have,

4:28 we like it because it barely trains in the apartment. We still have to vacuum maybe once a day if it comes out a little bit. Also, like no odor. And in a New York apartment, you want to make sure to like you do the best that you can so all of these different smells don't go into the poop. Um, and then it

4:48 all like kind of I don't know what do you call it? It rolls very nicely. I don't know. Clumps. >> Clumps. That's the word I was looking for. See, I'm stealing that later. It clumps really nicely as well, which makes my life easier. This is, as I have said to so many people, the best

5:04 investment I have ever made. I spent an inordinate amount of money on this object that I will never admit to anyone, although I will tell you where it's from. A company called Tuft and Paw. They make a quality product. And I don't think they actually have this one anymore, but they have something very

5:20 similar to it. You are kind of spending money obviously on sort of a hiding mechanism. Has a drawer and you put a normal litter box in here. >> Oh my god, that's amazing. And then it just slides back in. And it's obviously very easy to keep clean and it affords him a nice amount of privacy and people

5:38 don't know that it's a litter box. When I saw this apartment, I was like, "What a great litter box situation." Behold, this is my bathroom. This is like a linen closet that I have converted into a cat bathroom. Wow. Look at this. So, there's like all the accessories for cleaning. There's like a little welcome

5:55 mat. >> No way. And then and then it's very cute because and a little step up like step up like have his little privacy do his little thing. You use arm and hammer. How do you like it? >> I think it's fine. I tried some other ones that were like not with the fragrance. Also, he had like weird poops

6:12 when I first got him. So, it was a little smelly. It does track a little bit around here. So, I have to do some sweeping. So, I have like a little tiny buny thing that I do. It's in a very top secret little area because we have so many little hiding spots in our loft. >> Yeah. They can access it through here or

6:28 they can access it through the closet. And um Cotton likes to go to the bathroom and then go hide in my husband's part of the closet. Is this where you go potty? >> She's like, "This is private. Why are you showing people?" >> Yeah. Mom, I'm so embarrassed. >> And what kind of litter do you use?

6:44 >> This stuff cuz it doesn't make as much dust. >> Okay. And that mat seems to work well for you, too. >> Yeah. Well, you know, we're constantly like vacuuming and cleaning it um around it because I'm not sure which one does it, but one of them throws litter like way outside of the box. So, it's like an

7:00 everyday job that you have to vacuum. When we were renovating the house, one of the most critical thoughts was where is the cat litter going to go? Because a lot of times New York apartments, there's just not a closet. There's no closets in this place. Adam found a hole in the wall that was like it was just

7:14 like empty space in the wall and he created the cat restroom. Motion sensor lights. >> So when they walk in and of course we have the disco balls. >> It smells nice. Why does it smell nice? >> Because we cleaned it right before you got here. And like I have actually no idea if this thing actually works, but I

7:33 saw it on Instagram. Supposedly it's supposed to keep things smelling good. Does it work? I don't know. But we try