Kitty Poo Club vs. Cats Desire: Which Litter Box Is Better?

Cats Desire is the better buy if you want a bigger box, a covered setup that costs nothing extra, and the freedom to keep using the litter your cat already likes. Kitty Poo Club is the better buy if you'd rather have litter arrive with the box every month and never haul a bag home from the store again.

That's the short answer. The gap widens once you price out a full year, so here's the full breakdown using current pricing from both companies.

What's the difference between Cats Desire and Kitty Poo Club?

Both sell a cardboard litter box you use for a few weeks and throw away. From there they split. Kitty Poo Club is a subscription that ships one pre-filled box every four weeks by default. Cats Desire sells packs of 10, 15, or 20 empty boxes and you fill them with whatever clumping litter you already buy.

Which one is cheaper, Cats Desire or Kitty Poo Club?

Cats Desire, and it isn't close on the box itself. Kitty Poo Club's box-only subscription is $15.99. A Cats Desire box out of the 15-pack works out to $5.67. Over thirteen shipments a year that's $207.87 against $84.99, and the Cats Desire box is the larger of the two.

Bundled litter changes the shape of the comparison, so here's the honest version of it. Kitty Poo Club's box with clay litter runs $27.99 on subscription, thirteen times a year, or about $364. On the Cats Desire side you're buying litter yourself: a 40-pound bag of clumping clay runs $18 to $20 and fills our box about one and a half times, which puts litter around $180 a year and the total near $265. You save roughly $95, and you're running a box with a bigger floor and considerably more litter in it.

Multi-cat homes are where the spread stops being a rounding error. Kitty Poo Club recommends a box per cat per month, so four cats runs about $1,455 a year. Four cats on Cats Desire go through roughly four boxes a month, which is a 20-pack every five months. Boxes and litter together, that lands near $920. One of our customers found the same thing the hard way:

"I have FOUR adult cats and thought I died and went to heaven when I discovered the disposable litter box subscription service. That was until I started adding up the cost."

How big is each box, and will a large cat fit?

Floor space is what matters, and it's where the two boxes separate. Cats Desire gives you 19 by 17 inches. Kitty Poo Club's standard box gives you 19 by 15. Two inches of width sounds like nothing until a Maine Coon tries to turn around in it.

Kitty Poo Club rates their standard box for cats up to 20 pounds and sells a separate XL at 22 by 18 for anything bigger, starting at $58.99 with litter, because it takes two bags to fill. Their wall height is 10 inches against our 8.5. What actually stops overspray is having tall back and side walls where the cat aims, which is a real problem for a lot of households:

"We adopted an older cat who sometimes does not squat when she pees and would over shoot every open top litter box we tried. The urine would seep into everything. The back and sides are tall enough to capture her urine."

Worth knowing before you set up a Kitty Poo Club box: the opening sits 8.75 inches off the floor, with a perforated panel you tear out to drop it to 5.25 inches. If you've got a senior cat or an arthritic one, tear that panel before the box ever touches the ground.

Can you get a covered litter box from either one?

Both, by different routes. Kitty Poo Club sells a dome as a $6.99 accessory that snaps on with plastic rails. Cats Desire skips the accessory. Every box in the pack is identical, so you flip one upside down on top of another and connect the tabs, which gives you a covered box measuring 19 by 17 by 17 inches. Two boxes in, one box out. It's the patented part of the design.

The practical upside is that you can change your mind. If your cat balks at the lid in week two, pull the top box off and save it for the next change. Nothing extra to store, nothing to re-order when the rails wear out. Assembly runs about a minute either way, and we walk through both setups on the how to use page.

Does it matter that Kitty Poo Club includes the litter?

It matters in two directions. On convenience they win outright. Nine formulas, delivered to your door, and you never lift a 40-pound bag into your trunk. If you have a bad back or no car, that convenience is worth real money.

Depth is the other direction. Kitty Poo Club's clay bag weighs 15 pounds, and spread across a 19 by 15 inch floor that gets you closer to two inches than three. Purina's litter box guidance puts clumping litter at three to four inches deep, for the same reason we do: clumps need enough material underneath to form fully and lift clean instead of cementing to the bottom of the pan.

Litter depth is doing most of the leak-resistance work in any cardboard box, ours included, which is why the Cats Desire spec is 3 inches of clumping litter scooped daily. The double-coated interior backs that up. We go deeper on getting the depth right in how much cat litter to put in the litter box.

Buying your own litter also means you can stop. If your cat won't touch a new formula, you go straight back to the brand they've used for six years. On a bundled subscription, switching litter means reworking the whole order.

How flexible is each subscription?

Kitty Poo Club is a club, and that's the model working as intended. Auto-ship every four weeks, adjustable once your first order is placed, cancel through your account or by messaging support. Their money-back guarantee covers a single box on your first order only, so if the boxes stop working for you in month seven, that's your problem. Billing and cancellation friction is a recurring theme in Reddit threads about them, more so than complaints about the box.

Cats Desire defaults the other way. Buy a pack and you're done, because nothing renews. There's a subscription if you want the discount, currently 10% off quarterly delivery or 5% every six months, and you can pause or cancel from your account. Returns run 30 days on unused boxes. We laid out a fuller side-by-side in our Kitty Poo Club alternative guide.

Who should buy which?

Kitty Poo Club suits a one-cat household that wants the litter decision made for them. Their silica and grass formulas have loyal users, and the monthly rhythm is genuinely easy if you're only setting up one box.

Cats Desire suits everyone doing the math on more than one cat, or anyone with a big cat, a cat who overshoots the pan, or a cat who's picky about substrate. The empty-box model also makes sense if you already know exactly which litter your cat tolerates, or if you'd rather have the option of a covered box without buying a plastic dome to go with it.

The 10-pack at $69.99 is the low-commitment way to find out which camp you're in. That's about seven months for one cat, roughly two and a half months for a household of four, and nothing renews when it runs out. Ships flat, free, and made in the USA.