I’m curious about those who remarked on litterbox smell. Don’t you use clumping litter?
I have extremely sensitive smell and yet my cat’s box is in the bedroom closet with no smell.
I have vivid memories of the old BC days (Before Clumping) litter was available.
You’d be lucky if a gigantic bag of litter lasted a week. And by the end of that week it was pretty rank.
Then you had to dump it all out and start over. Clumping litter is the best thing since sliced bread !
If it’s scooped regularly and a covered box is used, the only time I notice any smell at all is possibly for a minute of two after a fresh poop is deposited and I happen to be nearby.
But a quick scoop and deposit into a well-sealed container fixes that. But most of the time I don’t even notice that since the smell disperses fairly quickly after she covers it up.
Cats are good that way :)
And dogs are definitely far more needy of maintenance. In my younger years I had a German Shepherd in a city apt. without a yard.
Rain, snow, sleet or hail, he had to be walked. Didn’t matter if I had the flu and a fever of 103, he still had to go out.
But I loved him and I love dogs as well as cats. But cats are sooooo much easier :)