Please: How do you keep the litter box blocked so that the dog can’t get into it?
I’ve got a dog that won’t knock stuff over unless he thinks he needs to. I can put a dining room chair in the walkway between the dining room and the living room and he won’t go through, even though he can easily get around the chair. Only time he’s done it was when a stranger knocked on the door that he didn’t like.
So anyways the cat box is in the utility room. We just slide a tall laundry basket in the way of the doorway and if the door’s open we and the cats can get in but he won’t go pass it because it’s not that important. Laundry basket isn’t there though and he’s in the utility room eating out of the cat box within 5 minutes.
My daughter has one of those new fangled cat litter boxes that empties its self after being used...but they are not cheap..
Keeping a dog out of the litterbox?
Looking at the replies you’ve gotten, it depends on the food drive of the dog.
My ‘smart’ one quickly learned that eating kitty crunchies ticks Mommy off. Not even competition with the other dog spurs her to partake now, not since she was a puppy.
The other one? Well, she’s a lab.
My kitty has a covered litterbox in a corner of the bathroom, the opening facing a wall with about 4 inches of space for her to access the box. Still, I sometimes have to use a baby gate across the doorway, or the lab will surrender to her appetites (shudder). She’s too numb to take shelter in the shade on a hot summer day, but she’s incredibly sneaky when it comes to items not on the menu. (My animals are allowed to browse feed with food always available in their bowls.) She does it right out of the blue after months or years of good behavior - and normally right after I’ve cleaned, the little rat.
During one episode I took to the shower on consecutive nights with a padded stick to ambush her. She was bright enough to wait til I’d pulled the curtain closed behind me!