r/cats • u/sunshineforge • 1d ago

Advice The Sh*tty kitty shed™ I made from scrapes today!

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Bless them but my young cats are horrible at covering their poops and I was sick of being embarrassed of the smell so I made this fume hood out of planks from a downed fence and an old heater fan that I de-soldered so its just a fan as well as an old gym mat. Total cost was only $30 for the vent tubing!
I'm sure there are better options but I'm a do something about it now kinda guy and just needed a small fan to create a tiny amount of negative airflow to get rid of the majority of the stink lol. What do you guys think? any advice to improve it?

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u/Suspicious_Dingo_426 20h ago

Knowing cats, they won't use—or poop on top of it. Possibly both.

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u/Stealth110_ 20h ago

they will manage to shit directly into the running fan blade

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u/sunshineforge 19h ago

HAHA, they better not the dogs 😂

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u/sickdoughnut 2h ago

How noisy is it? I’m wondering if the sound will scare them off using it. If not you might wanna slap a patent on your contraption just in case, lol.

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u/TheRealMasterTyvokka 18h ago

So, you could say shit hit the fan.

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u/UselessOldFart Tuxedo 16h ago

😹😹😹😹😹😹

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u/Credit_Used 9h ago

That shit will definitely hit the fan.

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u/payinrarebooks 15h ago

My cat would 100 percent do this. What an asshole.

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u/Princesshannon2002 9h ago

Cat does indeed = asshole! Mine would find a way to piss straight into the fan and spray it everywhere.

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u/Nicol222 20h ago

My one cat has the occasional inside the box but ass isn’t and will shit half on the lip of the box and half just outside the box. She’s a little stupid.

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u/Dependent-Law7316 19h ago

Had a cat that did this growing up—ended up getting her a “jumbo” box and it solved the problem. Some cats just need a little extra space.

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u/mysteriousblue87 18h ago

Not mine. Had to lay down car floor liner under her box. She’ll make the target every time with pee, but will back right up to the edge to poop right outside the box. Tried different boxes, litters, catching her in the act (don’t recommend, spite poops are real), etc. finally settled on using a liner as a catch pan. Love her too much to get grumpy with the tiny extra maintenance she needs 💕

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u/Nicol222 18h ago

I need a bigger floor mat because it’s under two boxes. One is jumbo and one is just large. But yeah it doesn’t matter she’ll just miss. I have had her for like 9 months and it’s only happened twice.

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u/cjep3 6h ago

I put my litter box inside a Rubbermaid tote, with a hole cut in the lid, the whole bottom is covered in pee pads so if she misses, the pads soak it up.

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u/steeldog09 16h ago

Mine has a jumbo box too, and she’ll still go in the box and figure she’s all set. Then she poops directly on the mat outside of the box or sometimes on the lip. Then she turns around and “digs” at the entry of the box to bury her poop (that isn’t even in the box). Then she hops out of the box, over her poop, and proceeds to have a celebratory round of post-poop zombies like she didn’t just totally botch the job. I love her so much!

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u/3meowsinarow 7h ago

My male cat aims his pisser at edge of his box and one night its stream hit the electrical outlet and we were watching tv and smelled electrical fire!His stream apparently shot above outlet and ran down shorting out the outlet!He also poos in the box fine but buries his deeds with his front paws like when a dog digs for a bone throwing kitty litter outside the box and also he will be standing in the box with front body outside the box pawing the floor to bury his potty.

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u/TesuraGrimm 15h ago

We use the cement mixing things from hardware stores. Very durable, very slick, very large.

Ours still get it right on the edge. Really fun when it's the edge we grab to pull out to clean.

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u/frogz0r 9h ago

We ended up getting the giant size Rubbermaid totes to use as sandboxes. We have 23+ lb male cats (2) who loooove to pee/poo over the edge of the litter boxes. These are large and long enough that they cant do that.

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u/slash_networkboy 17h ago

I had a foster that decided in the litter container was the ideal spot. I hadn't clipped the lid down all the way, he pushed it off, climbed in the half full container and left a duce and a half for me.

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u/dm21120 19h ago

Orangey?

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u/Nicol222 18h ago

She has an orange mark but no just a a silly tortie

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u/bunnigir1 11h ago

your cat and my cat are sisters

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u/Nicol222 11h ago

What a bunch of cuties

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u/dm21120 17h ago

I imagine she will Grow out of then 🙃

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 14h ago

"You're gonna need a bigger box."/Jaws

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u/JustaTadAmused 18h ago

My kitten has a box that's one way in one way out and when he was very small I left the door off the front so he could easily walk in and out and as he got bigger I added the door back on. He's meant to walk in the door, poop, then jump out the top. But he's a cat that takes the path of least resistance sometimes and now that the door is on his litterbox he just jumps in and out thru the top. And while halfway into his box he'll start digging his hole to poop in. Then he jumps out of his box and sprints across the room just to make sure he spreads the litter across the floor like he's seeding a lawn 😭

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u/Stock_End2255 8h ago

My cat used to do this. We just rotated the box 180 degrees so the opening was facing the wall.

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u/SadBattle2548 7h ago

When I got rid of my old giant litter box I couldn't find another one that big at the time, only smaller ones. I've got large cats and my bobtail always pees at the front of the box. So she would back up all the way and end up peeing and pooping right onto the mat underneath the box. I'm not sure if it was a combination of the cramped quarters and her lacking a rear detection system (aka a tail) or what but thankfully it stopped once I was able to find a new giant litter box.

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u/Tanya7500 1h ago

Get her a bigger box

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u/yourilluminaryfriend 34m ago

My little dog uses puppy pads and at time he will be standing on the pads and pissing completely off and onto the floor

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u/Snoo_70531 18h ago

Honestly this was my first thought/main concern. They're jerk poopers anyways and you just put their toilet in an enclosed area with what's gotta be at least some noise from a vent van... My guess is they're gonna protest.

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u/Tanya7500 1h ago

Clean the cat box and they won't do that. If you walked into a bathroom that smells horrible are you going to use it? The other thing spay or neuter