Litter Trays →
This aisle covers litter trays, hooded litter boxes and the scoops that go with them — the everyday equipment behind keeping a cat's toileting arrangements clean and manageable. The right setup depends on your cat's preferences and your home as much as on any single best tray.
Open trays versus hooded boxes
Open trays are simple, easy to clean and give a nervous or larger cat plenty of room to move and turn around, which some cats strongly prefer. Hooded boxes offer more privacy and can help contain litter scatter and smell, but a minority of cats dislike the enclosed feeling, so it is worth watching how your own cat responds if you switch styles.
Size matters more than most owners expect — a tray that looks generously sized for a cat can still be too small once you account for a cat needing to turn around and dig comfortably, so bigger is generally a safer choice than smaller, especially for larger breeds.
Choosing for a multi-cat household
The general guidance is one litter tray per cat, plus one extra, since cats do not always want to share and competition over trays can lead to problems going elsewhere in the home. Spacing trays out around the house, rather than lining them all up in one spot, also helps in multi-cat homes.
Different cats can have quite different preferences even within the same household, so it is not unusual to end up with a mix of tray styles that suits each individual cat rather than one style for everyone.