The best cat trees for small apartments are tall, narrow towers with a base footprint of roughly 20 x 20 inches or less, an overall height under about 40 inches, and a wall-anchoring kit in the box. That combination gives your cat height, a scratching surface, and a hideaway without eating the floor space you … Read more

If you share your home with two or more cats, the best cat tree for multiple cats is not the tallest one on the market. It is the one that gives every cat a separate elevated spot, enough scratching surface for two cats to work at once, and a base wide enough that nobody shakes … Read more

Searching for the best cat trees for senior cats usually turns up tall, narrow towers that look impressive and suit absolutely none of the aging animals they were bought for. An eleven-year-old cat with stiff hips does not want a seventy-inch climb. She wants a low step, a wide and padded landing, a hideout she … Read more

Most cat trees get exiled. You unbox a 5-foot beige carpet tower, your cat uses it for nine days, and then it spends its life folded in a corner of the room you walk through every day looking like a piece of pet gear that the designer of your house never approved. That is the … Read more

Most cat trees are built for an 8 lb tabby. If your cat weighs 15, 20 or 25 pounds, that same tree becomes a wobbling liability the first time she leaps off the top platform. We went through the specification sheets, listed build weights and owner reviews for a full set of heavy duty cat … Read more

The best litter boxes for large cats are the ones that give a 15 to 25 pound cat room to stand, turn around, dig, and bury waste without touching a wall. My short answer: pick a pan at least 1.5 times your cat’s body length, with walls tall enough to stop scatter and spray. If … Read more

The best covered litter boxes for odor control are the IRIS USA Large Top Entry, the Amazon Basics No-Mess Hooded with its pre-installed carbon filter, and the Petphabet Jumbo Hooded for multi-cat homes. We spent six weeks cycling ten enclosed boxes through daily scoop routines, tracked what each one did to odor in a shared … Read more

If your cat walks out of the litter box and leaves a trail of clumped litter across the floor, the problem is almost always the same: wet litter sticks to the pads of her paws and drops off as she walks. A top entry litter box fixes that at the source. Instead of a hole … Read more

The best litter box enclosure for a small bathroom is the Lifewit Hidden Plant Cat Litter Box, which takes an 18.9 by 18.9 inch square of floor space, keeps a 5.9 inch entry threshold low enough for kittens and senior cats, and hides the tray behind a fake plant rather than a cabinet door. Below, … Read more

The best automatic litter boxes in this price band give you the two things that actually matter: a cleaning cycle that works most days without supervision, and a sensor array that stops the machine if your cat is still inside. What you trade away versus the machines that cost two to three times more is … Read more