A Cat Owner’s Guide To Elevating Your Cat Essentials With Best Sellers and Elegant Upgrades

The highly-rated, best-selling, simple, and functional self-dispensing feeder from AmazonBasics uses gravity to keep your cat fed and watered.

If your cat’s on the older side, it might be a bit hard to lean into delicious situations. Raised pet bowls help alleviate that strain by bringing the food closer to your cat.

When you’re ready to upgrade your cat’s feeding bowl, consider an automatic pet feeder. It’s it’s-dinner-time!-capable, enables portion control, and is programmable so that it can basically take over feeding chores and execute them more efficiently than you ever could.

Simple, sturdy, and constructed with a built-in sifter, the Pet Mate is Amazon’s No. 1 best selling standard litter box.

In an apartment, a litter box is part of your daily life — and that’s why I like mine covered. Best selling covered litter boxes include the Clean Step dome you’ve definitely seen in someone’s home by now and a top entry model from the same company — and for $10 less.

When your litter box is in a higher traffic area of your home, you might want to disguise it somewhat (not completely since that would be cartoonishly impossible). This covered litter box is designed to resemble a clay pot sporting a plant.

Regardless of placement, maintaining a litter box is a pain. Take some of that hassle off your shoulders with robotic assistance: This No. 1 best selling, self-cleaning litter box senses your cat’s done its doing and then cleans up the mess, keeping itself poop-free for up to seven days.

Key features on these highly-rated and best-selling litter mats are that they’re easy-to-clean and slip-resistant. The Gorilla Grip is a bit thinner and utilitarian than the Blackhole mat, which offers a thicker, more stylized design. Both come in a variety of colors.

The best-selling and all-natural litter from Dr. Elsey’s has about 14,000 reviews and a 4-star rating, making it Amazon’s Choice and mine, too.

Also highly-rated and likely much more recognizable is a collaboration between Fresh Step and the iconic Febreze.

If your cat… goes hard or even if you have multiple cats, consider Arm & Hammer’s best selling clumping, odor-sealing litter.

The No. 1 best-selling Stain and Odor Eliminator has more than 7,000 reviews and a 4.3-star average rating — when it comes to the cleaning products market, that’s not an easy feat.

If less recognizable brands don't turn you off, consider the multi-surface and commercial grade cleaner from the Angry Orange, which is likewise highly rated and comes in liquid form as opposed to a spray.

Simple, affordable, and discreet, this horizontal scratching surface won’t affect your decor — or dent your wallet too much.

If you’re more into the vertical scratch, check out the Pioneer Pet: 32 inches of fibrous, durable material on a sturdy base your cat will have a hard time knocking off no matter how hard it tries.

This best-selling pet carrier is machine washable and can hold up to 22 pounds — and you can likely take it with you into the airplane’s cabin as a carry-on.

If you want something a bit nicer, check out this highly-rated and much more stylized pet carrier, which comes in multiple colors.