Thread: Where are you putting your MC food and litterbox?

Cat food placement in our kitchen is an ongoing issue here. We have a "breakfast nook" adjacent to the kitchen, which contains a table with the dry food on it, and my wife also puts the wet there. However, the cats are in the habit of getting on one of the kitchen counters, so I generally put wet there. (Oops!) We also put the wet dishes in the hallway outside of kitchen for cats to continue to nibble from for a while. In addition to kitchen dry, we also have dry food in our bedroom since the cats spend so much time there overnight, and one feeding area is simply not enough for four adult MCs in my opinion. Used to have dry downstairs also, but have removed that to keep Remy from nibbling as much of it during the day (since he needs to lose a bit of weight).

Anyway, my wife is not too pleased that the cats get onto the kitchen counter to eat as they also do it when she is trying to prepare food often, which forces her off to smaller counter. They got in the habit of getting up there, though, when we had dogs and had to have the cat food away from the dogs (the dogs are now gone, RIP). Unfortunately, after reading up on zoonotic diseases, I am a bit more concerned about having them on the kitchen counters as well. It certainly would not be appropriate if one was feeding raw, as the chance of human family members contracting something nasty could be quite significant then.

Generally I have read that cats will not like to eat right near a litterbox, and I personally would not want a litterbox in our kitchen! We have four large litterboxes distributed around the house--two upstairs and two downstairs. Unfortunately they are just too large for any of the bathrooms. We started with much smaller litterboxes (including covered ones), but the boys outgrew them (there is no way a 20+lbs male MC can use any covered litterbox I have ever seen).