Open or covered litter box?

[Catlady711]

I've raised two sets of kittens in the past. One pair that were 4 wks old, and one trio that were 2 wks old.

I normally use clumping litter, however in both cases I used either plain clay litter or Yesterday's News litter for the kittens until they were about 2 1/2 - 3 months old. Mostly because they would play with it and those two litters were heavier so they didn't fling them out of the box so fast.

I also normally have hooded litterboxes (however I'm in the process of changing that) but those were all super jumbo sized and certainly not sized for tiny kittens. So I'd use several things upgrading size as the kittens grew until they were big enough to use the big kitty boxes. In the beginning I was using a small tupperwear dish, then upgraded to a smal dog bowl, then a large dog bowl, then a small open kitty box, after that point they were big enough for the regular sandboxes.

I find this site.... http://www.catinfo.org/litterbox.htm to have a TON of useful, helpful information on tayloring a sandbox to what your cats will find most attractive, thus reducing the incidents of accidents later. It's not kitten specific, but cat general information.

[sugarpaws]

We have five boxes all covered, one for each of them. Of course they all use all of them. The reason for having the covered style is that Sammy the Pooh Bear shoots up when he pees, I have no idea how that happens.
Marina

[krazyaboutkatz]

I have 2 covered and 6 uncovered litter boxes. I used to only have covered but then Starr was refusing to use them because he felt too claustrophobic in them and I also think that one of his siblings was scaring him. My cats seem to now prefer the uncovered which is fine with me because Sunny makes a big mess when he pees in the covered litter box. He sprays on the cover and it then goes in between the box and the cover and it takes more time to clean this up.

Just in case they would happen to spray over the uncovered boxes or stick their butts over the edge, I've been putting puppy training pads around all of my litter boxes and it's helped a lot. I sounds like Paizly is just fine using a covered litter box with the clumping litter. I'm looking forward to seeing some new pictures of her.

[Bengalz]

I've always used a covered litterbox for Eve and she's fine with it. Of course she is very small and can dance around in there quite well Occasionally she has her little butt facing out the front of the box and consequently the litter flies because she has to dig the biggest hole ever !! and then cover it with a mountain

She's a girl - what can I say