Litter robot is worth it!
May. 13th, 2021 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elizillaThe litter robot arrived last week and we set it up right away. We left the old box in place, but did not scoop it. Within 36 hours Scotty had tried the litter robot. We had it set to run manually at first, but he didn’t seem to care if it ran, so we turned on the automation. He kept using it. We took the old box away on Saturday and he has been using it ever since, with no issues.
There is a phone app that tells you when it has been used and how full it is. You can set it to not cycle at night, but it is so quiet we can’t even hear it from outside the laundry room, so I don’t make him wait for a clean box.
We emptied the collection bin on Sunday night since Monday morning is our trash pickup. This afternoon (Thursday) I got a notification that it was full, so we went down the the laundry room to check it. You couldn’t smell litter while standing right next to it. Four days in, all I could smell in that room was dryer sheets!
Anyways, it was a false notification. The bin was not even half full, though a particularly large clump was on top. Maybe that tripped the sensor. But I think that getting a notification to empty it earlier than truly needed, is a pretty trivial problem compared to manually scooping.
And y’know how cats who have recently visited the box, sometimes smell of litter? That doesn’t happen anymore either. I suppose he never has to touch dirty litter from last time, so he doesn’t get damp litter stuck to him.
It does not have a rake to clean and it does not need any special supplies. Just ordinary clumping litter. And the inside surfaces seem to stay pretty clean. I don’t think it will be a complicated cleaning chore. There is a cleaning cycle you can run to dump all the loose litter, whenever it seems needed.
This is the best cat accessory ever. I don’t feel at all silly for spending the money. It is so great I could almost get a second cat!
There is a phone app that tells you when it has been used and how full it is. You can set it to not cycle at night, but it is so quiet we can’t even hear it from outside the laundry room, so I don’t make him wait for a clean box.
We emptied the collection bin on Sunday night since Monday morning is our trash pickup. This afternoon (Thursday) I got a notification that it was full, so we went down the the laundry room to check it. You couldn’t smell litter while standing right next to it. Four days in, all I could smell in that room was dryer sheets!
Anyways, it was a false notification. The bin was not even half full, though a particularly large clump was on top. Maybe that tripped the sensor. But I think that getting a notification to empty it earlier than truly needed, is a pretty trivial problem compared to manually scooping.
And y’know how cats who have recently visited the box, sometimes smell of litter? That doesn’t happen anymore either. I suppose he never has to touch dirty litter from last time, so he doesn’t get damp litter stuck to him.
It does not have a rake to clean and it does not need any special supplies. Just ordinary clumping litter. And the inside surfaces seem to stay pretty clean. I don’t think it will be a complicated cleaning chore. There is a cleaning cycle you can run to dump all the loose litter, whenever it seems needed.
This is the best cat accessory ever. I don’t feel at all silly for spending the money. It is so great I could almost get a second cat!
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Date: 2021-05-13 10:09 pm (UTC)Based on your review I'll have to look at these things...
We use Dr. Elsey's litter exclusively now, and it's amazing with standard litter boxes, so the combo could be quite something..
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Date: 2021-05-14 12:59 am (UTC)What is the thing you like about Dr. Elsey’s?
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Date: 2021-05-14 02:33 am (UTC)Dr. Elsey's ultra is like magic for odor control, as in we have zero odor with it. 3 big cat boxes within several feet of each other in our master bath. It clumps hard and fast and just poof, no odor or issues, it's magic. With arm & hammer, tidy cat,crystal stuff, etc etc, even when they worked reasonably well, eventually the box would get funky, we'd have to throw it all out, scrub and sanitize and start over. There is no need to do that at all with Dr. Elsey's. Occasionally we'll spot clean things where somethings clumped onto the side etc, but for years we just keep replacing the litter than comes out and it's fresh as a daisy.
They advertise 99.9% dust free, and while that .1% does exist, it's far, far less than any other litter we've tried.
The litter itself is odor free, doesn't track much, so the cats come out of the box w/out any litter smell, dust on them, etc. Four cats so far have had zero issues with it.
We seem to use a lot less than we used to, I have 1 40lb bag a month auto-shipped from Amazon and that's plenty for 2 cats w/three boxes.
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Date: 2021-05-16 06:46 pm (UTC)