Any of you know anything about the automated litter boxes? A friend of ours in North Carolina has the Litter Robot. It's very expensive, but that's not the main issue; my bigger concern is that it's big and I'd have trouble figuring out where to put it (too big for the powder room where a box is now). Do the automated boxes work as advertised?
I looked into them and decided not to buy one for a variety of reasons:
- they aren't covered (at least the ones I looked out), so the cats are still going to make a mess
- they require daily cleaning if not more often as the dirty litter holder is fairly small)
- I've always been afraid of the cat seeing the contraption in motion and getting scared away from using the litter box
We clean our three about 3x a week.
Ghetto porch astroturf works well too. A square under the entrance catches about 90% of the litter and you just need to shake it out every so often.
I tried that with my last cat, he started routinely peeing on the artificial grass.
