There is a misconception going around that in order to keep cat litter box odor down with a multiple cat household you need to spend great sums of money on high-tech cat pans and tons of litter.

Listen, you have been misinformed, well, lied to in a way about cat pan odor. And that misinformation is keeping you in the pet store spending inordinate amounts of money looking for the ultimate cat litter box odor reducing solution. This is something you hear all the time.

Cat box odor is hard to manage. You need to buy electronic cat pans or many manual litter pans and scoops to stay ahead of your cats usage. It is probably impossible to get by without having one pan per cat and scooping constantly.

This is, unfortunately, just not true. And, this inaccuracy has probably kept you leaning over pans scooping and grumbling for years or spending hundreds of dollars for the electronic alternatives that don’t work consistently or over the long haul.

Imagine, if you will, for just a moment the number of cat lovers out there who are scooping cat poop on a daily or twice daily basis, bent over the pan wondering if their furry loved ones are worth all this hassle. Think about other cat people who make the $100 to $150 dollar investment in an electronic cat pan that last only a few months before breaking down under the strain.

You might know friends who have done this yourself!

As a matter of fact, I have a girlfriend, Harriet, who has been through the same struggles that you might be facing every day. She had those same frustrations and struggles with her multiple cat family. She tried the electronic cat pan, and went through three of them before giving up out of financial frustration. She was both embarrassed by the smell in her house, and the fact that she had to put an exact amount of cat litter in the electronic cat pan or it would get jammed and become useless. She would look at her friends with cats and wonder:

“How do they keep their house smelling fresh and clean? Why is it so hard for me to keep up with the cat litter box odor madness?

Harriet was lucky that she found an easy, new remedy that reduced the cat box odor in her house significantly, and it was something that her mother had told her about for odors back in the day.

So, what is the easy, quick remedy for cat box odor? Add Baking soda to your litter!

Now, I know that sounds silly, but it really works. It is also now comes prepackaged in some of the cat litter that’s being sold, although it does cost a little more than standard litter. However, when it comes to litter, spending a little more to get the litter with baking soda in it will go along way towards cutting the odors in your house.

Baking soda or bicarbonate of soda is an environmentally safe mineral that has been around for about 150 years, and has been used in kitchens, to freshen up carpeting, in drains has been absorbing odors in refrigerators and freezers for decades. It takes the odors out of clothes, lifts out grease and is a very good cleaner. It is also great at reducing the odor of your cat litter pan.

This tip is powerful in its simplicity. Baking soda is a cheap and very effective way to keep cat litter box odor down in your house.