Cleaning cat enclosures

Tomorrow will be my final sign off for cleaning the cats enclosures.  So I thought I would share the process.  And I thought it would be fun to use pictures. 

We start by getting our buckets together.  We use these.

We use a trash bag that we clip on one half of the bucket.  The other half has a small white container to hold my "tools".  I fill the  bucket and white container with a splash of bleach.  My cleaning tools go into my little white container and my poop collecting tool goes into the bucket.  Water is added to dilute the bleach.  

 Our enclosures look like this.

We never ever ever go in the enclosure, unless the cat is not there.  So how do we get the poop out everyday. It's easy really!  First we walk around the enclosure to locate the cat.  This is also how we spot the poop.  Each cat is different but most have a "poop spot".  So my first tool is a pole with a curved end to pull the poop to the wall of the enclosure.

Next I use my tongs to remove it. My hands never cross through the fence.

I pick up the poop with the tongs and put it into the trash bag.  The tongs go back into the bucket.  Next I go  over to the "lock out" that we feed the cats in.  This is where their food plates and water bowls are.   I use the tongs to pull out any remaining food. Then I use these tools to clean bowl, plates, and stone. A stone is in each lockout, the food dishes are on the stone.

I use a hose to rinse everything, fill the water bowl and I am good to go!

Any abnormal feces or large amounts of food left over are recorded in our animal logs.  This is what we do first thing every morning.  Even in a tropical storm.  :)