Just a wee bit of info based on personal experience.

Do you have a cat thats a "side pee-er"?

We do. She never used to be that way, but had her leg in a bandage for a couple of weeks a few years back. When the bandage was on, she couldn't really squat so she got into the habit of peeing standing up straight. Once the bandage came off, she kept the high peeing habit.

So we got her an enclosed litter tray to counter this. As we quickly discovered when she started it, with an open tray, she just pee'd straight over the side.

Nice.

We then discovered that 95% of the enclosed litter trays out there are NOT watertight if your cat pees on the back or sides of it. The pee runs down, gets into the seam, and leaks out. For years we made do with a ferplast one:

http://www.ferplast.com/peteng/produ...5/Default.aspx

... which they sell in Pet Smart/Pets at Home etc.

This one is not bad. About 80% effective maybe? Most weeks it would be OK but sometimes it would seep through and there would be a lake of piss built up under the tray. (We did - and still do - keep the tray on an off-cut of lino with plastic underneath so it was contained!)

Not ideal.

But we couldn't find anything better. All the other ones I looked at in stores were obviously much worse with pretty badly designed seams.

I eventually found this one:

http://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/cats/c...tter_box/13624

... and gave it a try.

And I'm pleased to say that their 100% leakproof claim is totally justified.

Not a drop has escaped it since we switched.

Just thought I'd post this up in case anyone else has ever had trouble with a leaky litter tray.

I just have a large open litter and my two have never peed over the side but thanks for the tip.

You might find that the puppy pads that are sold to help housetrain puppies are very good for keeping underneath things that might 'leak'. My cats being Maine Coons tend to scoop a lot of their drinking water out of the bowl with their paws before they actually drink any so I find the pads invaluable.

Omega roll away is the best litter tray I've come across.

I have the same one, and can confirm it's leakproof & very sturdy...

...apart from the handle which broke off after a couple of months. I've had to improvise a handle with a bit of rope.

Handle on our one is still intact so far. Will keep an eye on it though!

The tray tends to be a lot lighter as well since we switched to the wood gravel type litter, so that should help.

I got an enclosed litter tray as soon as my two had outgrown the little litter tray we bought when they were to bundles of fluff.. its vital as its under a table in our kitchen. I don't have leakage issues, but they always tear the lining I put in. They spend ages scratching away.

I recently bought some wood pellet litter, which I loved because the smell was minimal, it worked out cheaper and the weight of the soiled stuff was half as much. They didn't like it at all though - they didn't bury their poo and it took some persuading to get them in there in the first place.. I'm back with the standard stuff - primarily because there's only one pet shop I know of which sells it and I wasn't near it at the time, but I dont know whether to persist with it or not...

You should be ok then, I use the very heavy clay type of litter.

What type of wood pellet?

One of mine doesn't like the ones that look like little sausages, she won't use it properly. But she likes the Catsan wood stuff. It looks exactly like gravel, except it's wood. She's fine with that one.

I've been thinking about getting an enclosed litter tray because my cat always kicks the litter over the floor, which is lovely when you're walking round in bare feet! The thing that puts me off is that she might not use it because it's enclosed, she 7 and has always had an open tray. I'm just worried she might think she's off to the vets in her carrier.

Our little cat didn't like the enclosed feeling, but I just took the flap door off, it works just as well. I use the Bob Martin crystal litter

My moggy does that with the water as well.

Why do cats do that?

Also - she won't drink tap water and I have to fill her bowl with rain water from the butt outside. She will drink that but doesn't seem to drink very much anyway.

I found that one of those HUGE (cheap) plastic "toy containers" (available at DIY stores) minus the lid, worked for my Horizontal-peeing Cat. She had occasional cystitis in later years and used to "stand and deliver" (albeit with good intentions)!

But a house trained cat - even my (then) two old-ish (17/18 y.o.) ones didn't SEEM to have problems with "hopping" over the side, and the base area is such that you don't actually use MORE cat litter anyway. I did have to "disinfect" it in the (downstairs) BATH(room)! But that's where their tray was situated anyway...

I don't know except I think it might be because they want to drink from moving water - that's just my theory about my two. I had one of those 'cat drinking fountains' with constantly moving water in our previous house and they hardly ever scooped that out. I haven't got room for it where we live now and there is a lot more scooping going on!

Cat litter: I've been using 'World's Best' since it's been readily available in shops. It is expensive but lasts a lot longer and the smell is a lot less than any other cat litter that I've used. It can be flushed too.

I have enclosed trays for mine but the doors are gone now. I kept getting up in the morning to find the doors on the floor in front of the trays and couldn't understand what was going on. Until I caught Gavin in the act of removing one! He also has an aversion to the charcoal filters on the top of the trays, every time I put them back he ripped them off again. So we now have litter trays with no doors and no charcoal filters.

Its the looks like little sausages stuff.. I'll try to find the catsan stuff, thanks a million for the tip !