“To ensure a cat will use the litter box (any box), it should be as comfortable and easy for them to use as possible,” says Tamburo. So I gifted it to a friend with two cats of her own, who not only love peeing in it, but also playing in it! My friend is pretty happy with it too - there is zero smell and she only needs to clean out the poop trap once every week or two. A representative from the company told me that 96% of cats who try the Litter Robot successfully transition and end up using it exclusively. Just because the Litter Robot didn’t work for Pumpkin, it didn’t mean it couldn’t work for someone else. I busted out the vinegar and spent the next two hours cleaning the couch before replacing the litter in Pumpkin’s original box. When I got home from running errands, Pumpkin was sitting on the couch beside a pee stain the size of a large pizza. Also, watching him climb into his overflowing litter box 10 times a day (he goes to the bathroom a lot) was breaking my heart. I kept him out of my room for the sake of my mattress, but I was starting to miss our nap-time cuddles, so, on the afternoon of the third day, I decided it was time to end our little experiment. Finally, I stopped cleaning his old litter box, hoping that this would compel him to at least try our new high-tech toy.įor two and a half days, he fouled his litter crate until the whole thing was just one big urine clump dotted with turds. I put a little of his old litter inside the chamber and even sprayed the machine with catnip to try to entice him.
He wasn’t scared of it, but he didn’t seem particularly keen on giving it a try either. Then I watched him watch it run through a cleaning cycle. I set it up beside his existing litter box and let him sniff it out and get used to it for a few days before I plugged it in. At $550, it’s pretty much the Mercedes-Benz of automatic litter boxes. So, being an all-or-nothing kind of person (and a bit bougie), I got my hands on the fanciest automatic litter box I could find: the Litter Robot 3 Connect by Whisker. Obviously the cat’s parents couldn’t be home to scoop the box after every use, so we implemented an automatic litter box and it actually did the trick!” Of course, having already decided that I wanted to try an automatic litter box, all I took from Tamburo’s story were four words: “it did the trick!” It had to be pristine or the cat would go somewhere else in the home. In all the cases I’ve worked on, I’ve only recommended an automatic litter box once. It was one of those rare cases where the cat would not use the box if it had any ‘deposits’ in it. “While they are quite large on the outside (and take up space in the home), the area where cats go is actually quite small and can make many cats uncomfortable.
“Typically, I am not a fan of automatic litter boxes - some cats do well with them, but many are afraid of them and it can be a difficult transition,” says cat behaviorist Cristin Tamburo. And yet, the idea of not having to scoop the litter box every time I entered the bathroom was very appealing. Also, they’re expensive and I just couldn’t imagine spending that much money on something my cat poops in. I’d seen automatic litter boxes before, but they were all so ugly and seemed like they would be a nightmare to clean. It’s more of a litter crate - a three-foot-long, 18”-high plastic storage bin that requires an entire 32-lb bag of World’s Best cat litter to fill - and has to be cleaned at least twice a day or Pumpkin might pee on the bed (sometimes, with me in it). It’s not a traditional litter box those are too small for him. I love my senior cat, Pumpkin, more than just about anything, but his litter box kind of sucks. See our privacy statement to find out how we collect and use your data, to contact us with privacy questions or to exercise your personal data rights.
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