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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / January 2004Expensive litter tray
Has anyone bought one of these very expensive litter trays - look here http://www.litter-robot.com/ Lois > Has anyone bought one of these very expensive litter trays - look here > > http://www.litter-robot.com/ > > Lois If I were going to sepnd THAT kind of money, I'd get the kind I've seen at Petco and PetsMart, which actually FLUSH the waste down the toilet! They use special re-cyclable granules which are washed with each flush. Those probably need replenishing from time to time, and there's the ongoing expense of their special liquid disinfectant, but they certainly looked ideal to me! (Unfortunately, I can't find them on any of the web-pages I used to refer people to - I wonder if they weren't as ideal as they seemed, or whether the close to US$300 price tag deterred too many would-be buyers?) >> Has anyone bought one of these very expensive litter trays - look here >> >> http://www.litter-robot.com/ >> >> Lois I saw those litter trays demonstrated on a TV show a month or two ago. They looked nice but seem too high priced. Might be worth if it you had a cat that threw litter or appearance was real important. The tray that holds the litter could be bigger as well. > If I were going to sepnd THAT kind of money, I'd get the kind I've seen > at Petco and PetsMart, which actually FLUSH the waste down the toilet! [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > as they seemed, or whether the close to US$300 price tag deterred too > many would-be buyers?) > Has anyone bought one of these very expensive litter trays - look > here http://www.litter-robot.com/ Didn't look - is that the one with the automatic rake? Maggi got one from her sister - her cats watched the rake go through the sand, looked at Maggi and said "You GOTTA be outta yer mind - get in there and get eaten?" >> Has anyone bought one of these very expensive litter trays - look >> here http://www.litter-robot.com/ [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > looked at Maggi and said "You GOTTA be outta yer mind - get in there > and get eaten?" No, this is a different one. Its a sphere on a base with a hole cut in the side for the cat to enter and exit. The sphere rotates after the cats use it and a delay and the droppings and litter fall into catch basin. As it rotates more the litter exits out a filter grid then the remains are dumped into waste recepticle. Its over $300 so its awfully high priced but it does look nice. More like a childs toy than a liter box. My cats love that rake by the way. When I first got it Maya would hear the rake start and run in there just to watch it work. >>> Has anyone bought one of these very expensive litter trays - look >>> here http://www.litter-robot.com/ [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >box. My cats love that rake by the way. When I first got it Maya would >hear the rake start and run in there just to watch it work. Well, I figure some cats must like those things, but before I'd shell out over $300 I'd sure what to know my crew would use it. I figure Sammy would, but Little Bit is one of those conspiracy theory cats who views anything new with suspicion and a possible hoomin plot  SignatureSteve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky stouchst@JUNKsirinet.net [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html Greetings... I just bought a LitterRobot with my December petsitting earnings. I claim it's a gift for the cats, but it's really for me. It's been there 2 weeks and they haven't touched it. *sigh* If I can get even one of them to use it, it would really help out the situation. What I really wanted was the Litter-Free (flushes kinda like a toilet). But they're out of business and I've heard too many people searching desperately for the granuals/washing fluid. LAL > Has anyone bought one of these very expensive litter trays - look here > > http://www.litter-robot.com/ > > Lois I am not surprised that would happen. It happens a lot with the littermaid too. I would take the used litter out of their box and put that in there. The scent would probably give them the idea and may make them feel safer. I would give it another week and then try a few things. You could make it the only litter box available for them a couple hours a day for longer and longer periods as time goes on. You could also just let the other litter box get less attractive to them by not cleaning it as often. Two weeks with cats isn't that long and they may come to like it. > Greetings... > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >> >> Lois Good luck with the whole thing. Our cats will not use any litter box with any kind of cover or hood (who knows what goes on in the minds of cats?) so we just humor them; it's not a whole lot of trouble to sweep up and redeposit clumping-type sand litter back into box. OTOH, some hoomins are neatness freaks, wanting their furry dictators to be as nitpicking neat as they are (one probably invented this thing). It ain't gonna happen, folks. Cats are clean, self-cleaning entities, but they could care less what we have to do to keep their surroundings liveable. : I am not surprised that would happen. It happens a lot with the : littermaid too. I would take the used litter out of their box and put [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] : >> : >> Lois > Good luck with the whole thing. Our cats will not use any litter box with > any kind of cover or hood (who knows what goes on in the minds of cats?) so [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Cats are clean, self-cleaning entities, but they could care less what we > have to do to keep their surroundings liveable. Minor "overflows" of litter on the floor don't bother me, but every once in a while Melisande postions herself so everything but the essential portion is in the litterbox, and makes her "deposit" on the floor instead! (Then throws large amounts of sand out of the box in a vain attempt to cover it.) ROFL - at least she makes an attempt. : > Good luck with the whole thing. Our cats will not use any litter box with : > any kind of cover or hood (who knows what goes on in the minds of cats?) so [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] : instead! (Then throws large amounts of sand out of the box in a vain : attempt to cover it.) >> Good luck with the whole thing. Our cats will not use any litter box with >> any kind of cover or hood (who knows what goes on in the minds of cats?) so [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >instead! (Then throws large amounts of sand out of the box in a vain >attempt to cover it.) I have my own method for handling the minor tracking. I just keep an old bath towel under the box. Then I just flick the towel back and don't have to sweep as often (guess which of the Odd Couple I would have been). Anyway, I can tell when someone misses the box, as the towel has been used to cover it up. Little Bit has also been known to pull the towel into the box if I've been remiss on scoop duty. SignatureSteve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky stouchst@JUNKsirinet.net [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html > Greetings... > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > they're out of business and I've heard too many people searching desperately > for the granuals/washing fluid. Aha! THAT'S why I couldn't find it on any of the websites! (I tried Petco, PetsMart, and Foster and Smith, all of whom used to carry it, and couldn't find it.) Too bad - it looked like a really brilliant invention, but I was afraid it was likely to be just too expensive for most people. > LAL > > Has anyone bought one of these very expensive litter trays - look here > > > > http://www.litter-robot.com/ > > > > Lois |
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