We have the faux planter... and it both works well and looks much more real than the pictures indicate. No one assumes it's fake, nor that it's really a litterbox, thankfully.

One hint: turn the opening toward the wall.

Three cheers for the litter-robot! Granted, it's pricey, and looks a bit like a cat-spaceship, but it is brilliant! No more scooping! No more smell! No more mess! Just open a drawer once a week, tie up a (regular) plastic bag, and toss in chute. Genius, genius, genius. We've had ours for about a year, and it works perfectly.

I replaced my Booda Clean Step Litter Box with the Kitty Washroom Litterbox Cabinet b/c it had to go out in my kitchen. The Booda was awesome, kept the odors to a minimum and didn't track litter everywhere. The Washroom one is much better looking but you have to constantly clean it out b/c the litter falls on the sides and the litter is tracked. YUCK.... eh, not too happy with it..and may switch back to my big, bulky Booda.

hey wait a minute.. mine didn't come with a pull-out tray!! what the... :(

we've started buying a great litter called scoop away multi-cat, i swear, there's no more odour at all, which is magical.

We had a huge litter problem.
When we moved to our new apartment we thankfully had a small laundry closet. Not really big enough for the litter and both washer and dryer. So we made a large wooden box (about two feet tall) and set the dryer on top of it instead on on the floor. Now the litter boxes are below and that coupled with feline pine litter make the whole thing easy and clean and it doesn't smell at all. We are actually saving space and the dryer runs fine up top! We thought about the robot, but its really not that big a deal to clean and the cats love it. Everything is contained and when we have guests we just close the door!

We got the Clevercat Top Entry Litter Box based on a recommendation in the comments here. Certainly not a beauty, but it has ended the piles of litter kicked out of the box by the cat, which is a wonderful thing. We've been able to take the trays away from around the box. Took a weekend for the cat to get used to it.

evamae - I buy that litter, too, and you're right about it. The only problem is that my cats often smell like the perfume of the litter, which grosses me out, and my hands smell like it, too, after I clean it out.

Why do all the pretty, enclosed litter boxes discriminate against our wide-bodied feline friends? There is no way my cat would fit in any of those.

We have been looking for something for a long time that not only conceals the litter box, but keeps the dog out of there as well. Yes, it is gross, but I haven't met a dog that wouldn't chomp at the bit if given the chance. Ideas?

Has anyone else tried the rolling litterbox? I got one and it's been great, I actually don't mind daily cleanings, now:

http://www.omegapaw.com/RollnCleanReg.html

It's not very attractive, alas..at least it sort-of matches my green bathroom.. :P

That bench is fabulous! Definitely an ikea hack waiting to happen. I went with the standard covered litter box, and that really reduced the spillovers and litter spray. Really though, it was only one cat causing the problem; the other will (literally) spend 15 minutes brushing his paws off on the litter box's walls before he exits. Well done, oh obsessive clean one.

*warning to the squeamish! comment with graphic nature follows*

Most of these designs only work if your cat points its butt down to pee. Some cats, including one of mine, prefer to pee butt up. Thankfully, Rubbermaid storage bins are cheap and easy to hack.

1971MI: Same problem in my house. We bought an old end table (with two cupboard doors on the front), cut a large hole in the back and positioned it close to the wall. Cat sneaks in through the back to do her business, we can open the front doors for easy cleaning. And the dog has to look elsewhere for his snacking needs.

catcave: AWESOME! Subwoofer as spiffy cat crappers. Nice!

i'm so glad other people are using the Clevercat-- i can only hope my recommendation made a difference. The small openings on covered litterboxes may become an issue when my 1 yr old Ragdoll gets to be fully grown (15-20 lbs) but for now, the Clevercat is INCREDIBLE! no odor, no mess, easy to clean-- I even have 2 in a 900 sq ft place so I don't have to clean as often. Anyone else had success with the Clevercat?

I bought the Clevercat per the many recommendations and one of my cats failed to use it. He decided to use my baby's car seat instead. It took me FOREVER to get the cat pee smell out.

Any advice on how to transition my kitties from using a covered litterbox to the Clevercat and avoid any more 'accidents'?

the Booda Dome gets my vote- less tracking (the difference is amazing, really, since we use pine litter and the cats track way less with the Booda than they did with the old typical boxes), but we're currently entertaining the idea of toilet training the felines... no litter box at all is pretty appealing!

I bought this faux-wicker model a few months back, and it looks great and is easy to clean (also doesn't look as "litter box-y" as many of the above models):
http://www.pets2bed.com/site/1405195/product/HER-02

We actually built a special cabinet into our bathroom that holds a cat litter box. It's ventilated with its own airshaft, too. We access it for cleaning by removing a panel from the cabinet in the bathroom, but the cat goes in and out of the space from the other side of the wall, in the hallway. He loves it, although guests who happen to be using the bathroom are sometimes a little freaked out when they hear cat litter scratching coming from inside the cabinet if we forget to tell them.

Loving these!
At least I know there are people out there thinking about how to make the cats areas fit into the house better. Makes me think yeah getting a cat (if i wasn't allergic) wouldn't be as bad as i had thought.

The Catty Corner box really is nice, although I never got the screen to work properly so I just scooped it out the regular way. It might work better with the pine litter I use now which is much lighter. I had to discard it though as one of my cats was peeing high up on the inside of the container, so that it leaked through where the top and bottom meet. Otherwise it's great.

Has anyone ever tried or know someone who has tried the Cat Genie? http://www.catgenie.com

It hooks up to your toilet and flushes it all away. It's quite pricey, but if it works, it seems to be the answer to all those yucky litterbox problems like tracking litter through the house, the house smelling badly, having to lug bags of kitty litter up three flights of stairs, etc.

scoop away and arm and hammer are litters of the gods. tidy cat is horrible and makes cat crap/pee smell worse. I had the Charlie's box, but the litter would cement on it and looks gross since it was slightly translucent.

I've been actually tinkering around and designing a box like the Cat Cave. Sure as heck didn't cost me $650 worth of wood. I do some woodworking so lately I've been trying to figure out a way to incorporate a slide out litter pan and use hidden hinges so open the back and clean out the pan.

I had planned on using some chrome legs from here:
http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=6061

I think a box like this would really look good. Mine is done in white birch wood though. Maybe I should sell the completed product on eBay lol.

@neutopian:

TOTALLY. the rolling litterbox isn't pretty, but it is by FAR the easiest box to clean. i used to be really, really bad about cleaning the litter box because i hated it so much. now i clean it every day in less than 30 seconds. i can never go back to scooping.

I discovered the rolling litterbox several months ago and decided to give it a try (I have five cats, three of them are BIG). It's by far the easiest litter box I've ever cleaned and MUCH CHEAPER than the Cat Genie I wanted to try. My Littermaid is stored as one of my cats will not use it and . . . 'nough said. The rolling litterbox has been a great addition to this house!!! I use the Small Spaces litter. I think it works the best of any I've tried.

i"ve got an (almost) 15 year old persian who around 9 years old forgot where her butt was.....and the result was a lot of messes at the front of the litterbox. The Booda Step Dome has been a brilliant solution, she has to climb all the way in, and then do her business.

I line the box with a liner, scoop 2-3 times a week, and use "the worlds best cat litter" - that's the name. It's a corn product and bio-degradable. The box goes in the coat closet, offering privacy in the entry way of our small (600 sq ft) apartment, and no smell.

This one is bamboo & modern-looking. Am posting this based on looks alone... I don't own one, so can't vouch for its quality, but it caught my eye while looking for non-hideous sandbox solution.

http://www.catsplay.com/trendlit.php3

I wanted the Litter Robot, but couldn't justify the money, especially since one of our cats is on the skittish side. Instead, we bought the rolling litter box that others have mentioned. It is so easy and our cats seem really happy with it. We were so bad about scooping before, but now that it's so easy and painless we've been keeping up with it. Highly recommended!

where can you buy the booda step dome in stores? ive found it online but dont want to pay $30 for shipping (!!)

also, this one looks really nice : http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2751338
if you have to have your litter box out in the open and it's $99 vs several hundred dollars.

personally i dont care what it looks like im more concerned about keeping litter off of my bathroom floor..

we're in the process of training our cats to piddle in the toilet (yes, it's possible). it's a messy/annoying process, but within the next 6 weeks, hopefully we'll be litter free. i'm keeping my fingers crossed and the bathroom floor swept.

Here's another option I found recently. I like the white one with the "wainscoting".

http://www.lovethatcat.com/cat-furniture-chest.html

my cat weighs 18 lbs...do any of these designs come in XXL?

LOVE LOVE LOVE our litter robots! we have one on each floor in our old house. Tip: and when you start one use "cat attract" litter it has never failed us. we recently moved and gave our older litter-robots to our Kitty Vet's good samaritan fund and the vet techs in the office had to have a competition for who could donate for them because everyone wants them! they were 5 years old and running great! HIGHLY recommend litter-robots for indoor cats and companions that want a clean solution and don't want to have to touch "treasures"

I am surprised the CatGenie is not on here. It is a great automatic litter box that hooks up to your water and washes itself. It has a big scooper that takes out all the solids and the litter is non absorbent so liquids go down the slits in the bottom. All waste is flushed away. At $300 it is worth every penny.

I bought the Bionaire and just love it. We live in a 690 sq ft condo and odor was our main concern when we got our kitty. The Bionaire does hum a bit (we got used to it, and my cat was unphased) but our house is completely odor free. I use the refillable Petco clay littler and mix in some crystal litter for good measure. The house is so free of litter odor that when people come over they have no idea we own a cat until the little guy comes sauntering into the room!

Has anyone else here become a ScoopFree loyalist? www.scoopfree.com - its another automatic litterbox self-cleaner. with our place rounding out at about 850sq ft, smell was a concern of ours too. but with scoopfree, it cleans the solids into a compartment and uses crystal litter that absorbs urine. Perfecto! And now that I am on their litter subscription service (where i get my litter shipped right to me without me having to experience the "oh-no-im-out-of-litter" moment) - I am all set! Yay for no more litter lugging!

(BTW, just found out that they eliminated shipping costs for their subscription service members and will take off up to $20 on the first order .... so it is worth giving a call 888.726.MEOW (6369)

After searching low and high, I finally gave in (high price be damned!) and pre-ordered www.modkat.com.

It comes in in Sept. Let's pray my fat cat fits.

I have the ModKat Litter Box with 2 siberian forest cats using it and loving it! See it in person at the NYIGF this Sunday, Aug 16th!

After many years of paying good money to try out bad catboxes, we cut a cat-sized hole in the side of the bathroom vanity, the side away from the door. Stuck in a high-sided Rubbermaid box. Put an astroturf-ish mat (hardware store) on the floor of the vanity - best way EVER to get the litter off their paws. It's nuisance not to have the under-sink storage, but the catbox has to go somewhere.

I have had the Booda Clean Step Litter Box for 4 years and it will likely take an army for me to change. I would love a high-end wood looking one, but the little steps/stairway on this dome is what makes it "clean step" giving the cat a chance to walk off the litter. It also contains odor decently (has a charcoal insert that goes in the top).

I love the "Cat Cave" and am trying to locate it for purchase. Does anyone know who makes or where it is sold? Thanks for the help!!

I love the cat on the corner cabinet cave.