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I know you are probably asking yourself, “What in the world does this have to do with cooking?” My answer is, “Absolutely Nothing!” But when I first saw the Litter-Robot, I had to try it! We have two cats and the one chore I absolutely hate is scooping the cat box. It’s just disgusting. We’ve had other automatic cat boxes in the past, but they never worked right. I’ll spare you the details of this nasty mishaps.
The design of this box is ingenious! After my cat does her business, the sensor is triggered and several minutes later the entire sphere rotates. On the inside the litter is moved over a filter (litter passes through and the clumps continue on their spinning journey). The sphere continues rotating until two trap doors open on the bottom allowing the clumps fall into waiting garbage bag. Very cool! One thing that I really like is that the box uses regular garbage bags from the grocery store…no special bags required. Another bonus is that this box works pretty much any standard clumping litter.
We have two cats and we are able to go about 6-7 days without changing the garbage bag and adding new litter. It really depends on much your cats go, but I will take a week! We went out of town for 5 days recently and had no problems. There was no cat smell when we got home, no unhappy cats from a messy box, and I didn’t even have to clean the box the second we got home.
We did have one freak little mishap recently with Litter-Robot. A very moist clump somehow got stuck half on the trap door and half on the wall which did not allow the trap door to open. Luckily, there is a manual trap door release, so I just had the sphere rotate and at the right moment, I used the manual door release and the moist clump fell into the garbage bag and all was fine! Really, I can never see this happening again, but we did get a bit of a chuckle out of it. What are the odds?!?!?!
I know it seems kind of pricey, but honestly it is well worth it and I would totally buy one! I’ve had several compliments about it and comments that you can’t even tell we have cats (and the box sits in the room right by the front door). Take a look at them and right now, you can get free shipping!
Disclaimer: Litter-Robot sent me one to try for my honest review.
What a great product if you have kitty cats! I love technology nowadays…makes smelly clean ups so much easier!!
Automatic litter boxes can be so tricky. I remember one that required special plastic containers too. This one looks like a much better litter solution. Does it make a lot of noise when it rotates?
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Miriam, it doesn’t make much noise at all. Even when it is totally quiet in the house we hardly hear it and it is in the main living area.
I simply have to have this! Thanks for posting
I hate the litter box and I hate seeing it so this would be fantastic to have.
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How cool! I have two cats and the thought of going 6-7 days without changing the litter box is an absolute dream.
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That’s very cool! If we didn’t have a jungle sized cat in our house I would love it! Our one cat is 21 lbs and not sure he would fit, but other than that I think that is super cool!!
Well that is nifty. We do not have cats…just 5 dogs..wish they had an apparatus for them…lol
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I have one of these as well (was blessed to review one about 9 months ago) and it is the finest product on the market (OK, alongside the iPad LOL). We will never ever own a cat without owning a Litter Robot. And, everyone who sees it thinks it’s the greatest thing ever!
Taking the plunge and ordering one. Hopefully it will improve Hubbyman’s temperament regarding our four-legged children!