Hello all you fantastic people and kitties.

I have several cats. It didn't start off that way, but life happened and so we accumulated more and more over time. There's currently 7 cats living with us.

I started with 2 litter boxes, then 3, then 4, etc.

The very last box I installed is in a very central location, smack dab in the middle of the house.

My problem is, most of the cats STRONGLY prefer that one box, and very rarely visit the others. I scoop daily, and the centrally located box is used so much, that it's disgusting and I have to top it off with half a bag of litter... every day. While at the same time, the other boxes barely get used, in comparison. One of the boxes is ignored to the point where I don't have to add litter for a week. So the centrally located box gets WAY over-used. It's not like the cats don't know others exist, because they were all there beforehand, and some of them use the others sometimes.

How would you guys suggest I balance things out? How do I encourage these poop machines to spread the love?

Hi everyone! My wife and I just took in a 1 year old cat. We’re both first time cat owners.
Our apartment has two rooms and we’ve been keeping her litter and food in one of the rooms so obviously we have to keep that door open
Just asking what is everyone’s best hacks to keep the apartment smelling like ~cat~
We have friends that have 2 cats in a small 1 bed apartment and it never smells like a cat lives there and all they say is they clean.
All hacks welcome- unhinged or not- again first time owner so go easy lol

Okay, long story short, I am trying to merge my 10 year old cat who has never lived with other cats (she lived with my parents) with 4 others cats. My 10 year old cat, Bubbles, was very sick so I kept her away in a separate room while she healed. When she met the other cats she hissed and tried to fight with them, but slowly backed off of doing that and the cats kept their distance... until one day our male cat, 6 yr old (Simon), started fighting her. She is kept in a separate room while they are merging and have definitely had moments where they are in the same room and just sit there. There is obviously hissing, but it eventually fades. Recently, Simon has been bolting into the room and attacking Bubbles. Now Bubbles will not come out of the room and is terrified every time I open the door. It's been roughly 4-5 months and there has been almost zero progress of them merging.

Am I hopeless here? Does anyone have any advice on what I can do to help Simon and Bubbles with the merging? I have tried hormone spray, food through the door and even with it open, allowing them to naturally see each other. I really don't want Bubbles to be locked in this room for forever. I know the goal is not free to have them be best friends but she cannot live here if she's going to be attacked all the time. I need the craziest advice or things that have worked with cats. I will try anything at this point so I don't have to send her back with my parents

They already each have a litter box, a food bowl (they share food bowl), and I have a cat tree but no space to set it up. And also do you have any tips on how to make them both get along? (One hates me, the other won't leave me, and they always either fight or hiss at each other) also one of them keeps scratching my closet door and waking me up I don't wanna let him in because I have clothes there and he has sharp claws and I'm not sure if I trust him. (He's scratches arm when it's hanging off my chair sometimes (I think he thinks it's a toy) so I don't trust him) ​​​