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Cat Forum / General Topics / July 2007LITTER ROBOT II Self-Cleaning Litterbox
Hello, and thanks for taking the time to read my post. Does anybody own a Litter Robot II Litterbox? If you do I'd like to ask you a question about sanitary issues. On the manufacturer's website I saw the demonstration on how the Litter Robot works and saw a potential issue. When the Litter Robot rotates, the waste comes in contact with a small part of the wall and the scoop that is attatched to the top of the dome. Isn't there a chance when the Litter Robot rotates back to the normal position that fecal matter and urine can be smeared on the inside wall and on the scoop which is directly over the cat when it's using the litterbox? After the cat leaves, the Litter Robot operates on a mere 7 minute timer before it tries to deposit waste. 7 minutes doesn't seem long enough for the urine to clump into a rock; so it doesn't fall apart into a wet mess. I've read a lot of great reviews about this product but I'm fussy about cleanliness; I don't want my cats soiled and tracking it all over the house! Please tell me what your experiences have been regarding this issue. THANK YOU!! t cleanliness; I don't want my > cats soiled and tracking it all over the house! Please tell me what your > experiences have been regarding this issue. THANK YOU!! I don't have any auto scoopers one of my customers did what is there to know! get a decent one, and keep yure store receipt. try it out! > Hello, and thanks for taking the time to read my post. Does anybody own a > Litter Robot II Litterbox? If you do I'd like to ask you a question about [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > cats soiled and tracking it all over the house! Please tell me what your > experiences have been regarding this issue. THANK YOU!! You are right the globe will rotate and the "matter" is sifted around, if it is wet enough it should accuminate more dry litter and go from there. I have the litter robot 1 but I didn't think about your issue. It works great for me, just change bags and occasional scrubbing of the whole unit. Let's put it this way, if the kitty jumps on my dining table and decide to prop his butt on my dining mat, I can't do anything about that and that would be just as un-clean as what you are thinking of. so some fur get brushed against the liter robot shouldn't be a big deal. IMO. I have this for two years and no sickness or ill effects in human and cats from using it. >Hello, and thanks for taking the time to read my post. Does anybody own a >Litter Robot II Litterbox? If you do I'd like to ask you a question about [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >cats soiled and tracking it all over the house! Please tell me what your >experiences have been regarding this issue. THANK YOU!! No experience but I'm intrigued by the product. Some of the reviews mention a problem with large cats, and while two of mine are normal size, Nipsy is around 17 lbs and big. Also a wuss. Anyway, how is this on dust? One of my main problems with a litterbox is the dust that settles all around the bathroom. If this handles dust well, and it would seem to, then it is worth $300. If Nipsy will use it, that is. "dgk" <dgk@somewhere.com> wrote in message > Anyway, how is this on dust? One of my main problems with a litterbox > is the dust that settles all around the bathroom. If this handles dust > well, and it would seem to, then it is worth $300. If Nipsy will use > it, that is. 18 months ago, I bought a Littermaid for my cat. She was 6 months old when I adopted her and not fully grown, so she didn't poop as much as a full grown cat. I used a high quality scoopable litter that had very good dust control and I could go three or four days before having the empty the collector tray. The Littermaid broke down at 8 months and was replaced under warranty. Near the end of it's one year warranty term, it started making a very irritating screeching noise, so I gave up on it and just bought a new one. That one failed about a month into warranty and I didn't bother to get it replaced, I just tossed it out. By the time the second one failed, my cat was nearly full grown and the collector tray got filled every one or two days. Cleaning the thing was a pain in the a.s with all it's crooks and crannies, it was easier to buy the largest Rubbermaid container I could find, cut a slot in it and just use that. Reasonably flat bottom, no way my big cat could aim her behind anywhere except inside it and no more irritating noise of any type from the thing operating in the middle of the night. So, in my opinion, a self cleaning litter box is a waste of time, money and effort. IMHO. >"dgk" <dgk@somewhere.com> wrote in message >> [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >So, in my opinion, a self cleaning litter box is a waste of time, money and >effort. IMHO. If you look at the testimonials on epinions and such, you will see that many have awful things to say about the Littermaids and great things to say about the Litterrobot. They appear to be very different products. I made the same mistake you did when I first saw the thread and just figured that it was one of the crappy things. It isn't cheap though. It is around $300. I'm really considering it though since I need a second litterbox (3 cats now) and while I have a second one in a spare room, it's going to have to move somewhere else soon. The significant other is complaining. I'm thinking of putting one in the basement but I rarely go down there so a self-cleaning one would really be ideal. |
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