Cat Litter Tray Plastic
- Price
- not published
- What it is
- The plain open tray. The default first box for most Australian households.
Kmart, Big W and Target
This is where most Australian cats' litter boxes actually come from, and for a manual tray there is very little reason to shop anywhere else. Here is the range, and the two places where paying more genuinely buys something.
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What Kmart stocks
| Product | Price | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Cat Litter Tray Plastic | not published | The plain open tray. The default first box for most Australian households. |
| Cat Litter Tray High Side | not published | Same idea with taller walls. The cheapest fix for a cat that kicks litter out or sprays up the wall. |
| Cat Litter Box with Scoop | not published | Tray and scoop bundled. Convenient rather than better. |
| Cat Litter Box Dual Entry | not published | Two openings, which suits nervous cats and multi-cat homes where being cornered is the concern. |
| Cat Litter Box Cabinet | not published | The furniture version, hiding the tray in a cabinet. Check internal clearance and ventilation. |
| Cat Litter Enclosure | not published | A hood or surround for an existing tray. |
| Cat Sifting Litter Box | not published | A two-part tray with a sieve insert. Manual, but it halves the scooping effort with the right litter. |
| Cat Litter Locker | not published | A sealed bin for used litter rather than a box the cat uses. |
| 100 Pack Cat Litter Tray Liner | not published | Generic liners. Worth knowing these exist before buying branded ones. |
| Automated Cat Litter Box | not published | Kmart now stocks an automated box of its own. See the note below before assuming it competes with the specialists. |
Cat Litter Tray High Side
- Price
- not published
- What it is
- Same idea with taller walls. The cheapest fix for a cat that kicks litter out or sprays up the wall.
Cat Litter Box with Scoop
- Price
- not published
- What it is
- Tray and scoop bundled. Convenient rather than better.
Cat Litter Box Dual Entry
- Price
- not published
- What it is
- Two openings, which suits nervous cats and multi-cat homes where being cornered is the concern.
Cat Litter Box Cabinet
- Price
- not published
- What it is
- The furniture version, hiding the tray in a cabinet. Check internal clearance and ventilation.
Cat Litter Enclosure
- Price
- not published
- What it is
- A hood or surround for an existing tray.
Cat Sifting Litter Box
- Price
- not published
- What it is
- A two-part tray with a sieve insert. Manual, but it halves the scooping effort with the right litter.
Cat Litter Locker
- Price
- not published
- What it is
- A sealed bin for used litter rather than a box the cat uses.
100 Pack Cat Litter Tray Liner
- Price
- not published
- What it is
- Generic liners. Worth knowing these exist before buying branded ones.
Automated Cat Litter Box
- Price
- not published
- What it is
- Kmart now stocks an automated box of its own. See the note below before assuming it competes with the specialists.
Why the price column is empty, and what we are doing about it. Kmart's site refuses automated requests, so we could not verify a single price at source on the day we checked. Rather than copy figures from a third party or from memory, the column says "not published" like every other unsourced figure on this site. Prices are on the product pages and in store, and we will fill this in when we can read them properly.
The Kmart automated box
Kmart now lists an Automated Cat Litter Box. That is genuinely new: this category has been specialist-only in Australia, and a mass retailer entering it usually resets the price floor.
What we cannot tell you is whether it is any good, because we have not been able to source its price, its cat weight limits, its litter requirements, its warranty or whether it uses a proprietary consumable. Those are exactly the questions that decide the answer, and on the evidence of this category the consumable question is the one to ask first. Treat it as unknown rather than as a bargain until somebody publishes the specifications.
Where spending more actually helps
- Size, for a large cat. General-retail trays are often too small for a cat over about 6kg. This is the one place a specialist or jumbo tray earns its money. See litter boxes for large cats.
- The automatic category, which is not a better tray but a different product: it removes the daily scoop. Whether that is worth several hundred dollars is a personal call, and the running-cost register tells you what the ongoing part costs.
Everything else, high sides, dual entry, sifting inserts, hoods and liners, the big retailers do as well as anyone for a fraction of the money.
What we would buy from a general retailer
- The largest plain tray with high sides that fits your space, because size and depth solve more problems than features do.
- A second one, for a different room. Two cheap trays beat one good one in almost every household.
- A litter locker or sealed bin, which does more for smell in a small flat than any hood.
- Generic liners rather than branded, unless your box specifies otherwise.
Common questions
Does Kmart sell an automatic litter box?
Yes. Kmart lists an Automated Cat Litter Box in its cat range, which is a notable change: until recently the automatic category in Australia was specialist-only. We have not been able to source its price, specifications or warranty terms, so we cannot tell you how it compares with the CATLINK, PETKIT or Litter-Robot machines, and we are not going to guess.
Are Kmart litter boxes any good?
For a manual tray, they are perfectly adequate and represent the best value in the category. A litter box is a plastic tub, and the specialist brands do not offer much a general retailer cannot. Where money genuinely buys something is in size for large cats, dual entry for nervous cats, and the automatic category, which is a different product rather than a better tray.
Should I buy a cheap tray or spend more?
Buy cheap and buy big. The most common mistake in manual trays is buying one too small, because a cat needs about one and a half times its body length to turn and dig. A large cheap tray beats a small expensive one every time. Spend the saved money on better litter and more frequent changes, which is what actually controls smell.