A closed toilet for a cat can be a real salvation if your pet is too shy and refuses to walk into the open tray . Such a design will also help to solve the problem of spreading a cat's filler, which often occurs when using trays without a cover.
Types of closed trays
There are several options for closed cat litter. Each of them can differ in form and design.
The simplest is a tray-house, which is a usual plastic tray equipped with a roof and, sometimes, a door. Usually this closed toilet for cats comes with a grate, and the upper part of it can be removed to wash the inside surface of the toilet and change the filler. The disadvantage of such a tray can be called insufficient protection from unpleasant odors.
To save space in the room are also closed corner toilets for cats, since any tray with a roof takes up more space than its open analog.
A more complex design of the closed tray is in the form of a twisting spiral or cochlea. This toilet reliably locks the smells inside the tray due to its shape, and many similar models are supplied with a special ladder with grooved steps that reliably clean the cat's legs from the adherent filler and keep the house clean. The drawback of the snail tray is its cumbersomeness. After all, it has a round shape, which means it takes up a lot of space in the room.
Manufacturers of cat litter offer various technically more sophisticated versions of trays that protect the room from the spread of unpleasant odors. The most common of these is a closed toilet for cats with a filter. Usually inside it are used carbon filters that adsorb unpleasant odors. From time to time they need to be replaced.
Finally, the most technically difficult are automatic closed toilets for cats that have a system of periodic cleaning. Designers often give them such an appearance that it is impossible even to guess that this is a cat's tray. For example, such an automatic toilet can look like a chest of drawers for things. The main disadvantage of this toilet is its rather high cost, as well as the fact that the complex mechanism of automatic cleaning can fail, and it will be practically impossible to wash the tray by itself, which will make it useless.
Selecting the closed tray
Choosing a closed cat's toilet, it is worth considering the size of your pet, because a cat or cat should easily fit in such a tray and move freely inside, settling in comfortably. If they are there closely and uncomfortably, the cat will simply stop walking into the tray and begin to leave "surprises" in the corners. On the other hand, when purchasing a large indoor toilet for cats, consider where it will be placed. This tray requires much more space than for the open version. It is also worth considering the nature of your cat. If she is shy enough, likes to retire while going to the toilet, then a closed tray will be the best solution. If the animal, on the contrary, does not like closed and dark spaces, then the closed toilet, especially the options with doors or those that have the shape of a snail, clearly do not suit your cat.
Choosing a toilet in the store that you have to wash yourself, you need to check how easy it is to remove the lid from the tray, how to remove the grate, whether it will be easy to clean all internal surfaces. When buying a closed tray with a filter, it is better to immediately purchase several replaceable cassettes of a suitable type to change them as necessary.
If you decide to buy an automatic cat litter, it is very important to check the operation of the cleaning mechanism. Also it is worth remembering that trays, located, for example, in a chest of drawers, are often supplemented by designers with different boxes for storing things. However, this is not very appropriate, because as boxes in such a curbstone can quickly dial and soak up the smell of cat waste.
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