Litterbox smells - female cats worse?

[TheAntiPam]

I guess I'll have to do a more scientific study of this smelly topic - my personal survey of 5 kitties is not a sufficiently diverse population!

You've mentioned lots of good ideas - food ingredients, litter box style and location, litter ingredients etc. Thanks for your contributions!

Although not smell-related, I have my litter boxes all setup within larger plastic pans to help contain the flying particles when a kitty gets enthusiastic about covering.

I also noted that while sharing a house with a newborn human, I noticed the smell of the diaper pail quite often. However, the baby's mom seemed to always notice the litter box smell... I guess if it's your baby, you don't mind the smell as much!

[orangemm]

Binky's poops are horrendous; they will knock you out. Archy...well, his really don't stink at all. They're supposedly brothers, but I guess that doesn't make much difference.

I'm a multi-scooper, too. Gotta have a clean box(es). I'd like to try the larger Rubbermaid thing, but can't figure out where to put it.

[krazyaboutkatz]

I bought some "No Offense" Natural Litter Box Deodorizer at Target last week and it's made with zeolite. I tried sprinkling it over the litter and it did seem to work but of course they want you to do this every time you scoop which I can't do because I have 4 boxes. I'd be going through boxes of this probably every other day. The litter I've been trying also has zeolite in it too and it seemed to work great when it was very fresh.

I now bought some Fresh Step Lavendar scented litter to add to my existing unscented litter to see if this will help a bit. I really don't want to use scented litter but hopefully a little will help do the trick.

[smokey the elder]

With mine, it seems more to be age than gender-dependent. Diamond (female, 12); Pink Nose (male, 12) and Bubba (male, 14) all lay poops of mass destruction!