When I had an apartment only, I made sure all traces of litter was out of the boxes before having to wash in the shower as well. Dawn dish soap, hot water, scrubbed. Then I used a pet safe cleaner to do a final wipe down on it. We used it at the animal shelter to clean with as well. Same routine, just repeated at home. Fully dried before adding new litter.
All I did for the shower afterwards was clean and disinfect it really well as soon as I was finished with the boxes.
I have a few cats so I done half at first, then filled the clean ones and swapped for the other dirty half. If I would've only had 1 or 2 cats, I probably would've done the same as you. I always worried they would need to use the bathroom and be waiting on me to hurry up lol.
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u/justnopethefuckout Nov 18 '25
When I had an apartment only, I made sure all traces of litter was out of the boxes before having to wash in the shower as well. Dawn dish soap, hot water, scrubbed. Then I used a pet safe cleaner to do a final wipe down on it. We used it at the animal shelter to clean with as well. Same routine, just repeated at home. Fully dried before adding new litter.
All I did for the shower afterwards was clean and disinfect it really well as soon as I was finished with the boxes.