Covered litter tray

Zapperzy

Any one have any experience with them? Do they reduce smells?

Due to recent thread I have to get a second tray upstairs, bought the same one as I have downstairs (normal one with a lip around it to stop spillage) and that ended in an argument about the whole house now going to smell of pee and is now sitting unused on top of the presses. Now my sense of smell is diabolical so it may well smell, I don't get any smell though, it's cleaned as soon as she uses it. So now looking at covered litter trays.

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/8702410.htm
http://www.zooplus.ie/shop/cats/cat_litter_litter_boxes/hooded_litter_box/174217
http://www.zooplus.ie/shop/cats/cat_litter_litter_boxes/hooded_litter_box/155569
http://www.zooplus.ie/shop/cats/cat_litter_litter_boxes/hooded_litter_box/203110

Anyone any experience with these ones? Do you actually need to keep getting filters for them? Are the doors easy to get in and out of and can you remove the doors easily? She's never used a flap so I can see that being a problem.

Themadhouse

All 9 of my trays are covered, I only use an uncovered one for small kittens. Cats prefer them in general as they don't like to be seen doing their business! The flap should be easy to take off an we never have seen any benefit of the filters, sticking to baking soda for freshness.

Themadhouse

I find washing them out every fortnight and scooping twice a day keeps them fine. If we leave them for over a fortnight it does start to smell.

Tranceypoo

I switched to a covered tray, I don't know if it smells less but it's definitely more pleasant to look at/have around, I only have 1 cat and she poops once a day so I scoop the poop soon after she's done it (I can smell it straight away) and once a week I clean it out and put fresh litter in, also putting a sprinkle of bicard or baking powder every couple of days can help. I know if I used to leave it longer than a week or so, you could smell the pee whenever you went into the downstairs bathroom where we keep it.