Amazing self cleaning catbox

[Nightingale 0]

anyone have any experience with this?

www.catgenie.com

if it works as claimed, seems like it would be the most amazing invention for cats since canned catfood.

[AggieDave 6]

If it works as well as the older motorized metal comb through the litter cat box, then it'll be a piece of crap.

My cats broke the older motorized litter box, they would pile cat litter up against the comb since they didn't like it moving. It broke the gears and such for the movement. Quite funny, actually, smart cats.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[2fat2fly 0]

Just get a dog, they do a great job of cleaning out the litter box.

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[Nightingale 0]

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If it works as well as the older motorized metal comb through the litter cat box, then it'll be a piece of crap.

My cats broke the older motorized litter box, they would pile cat litter up against the comb since they didn't like it moving. It broke the gears and such for the movement. Quite funny, actually, smart cats.

completely different system. the comb isn't near the litter until it's cleaning it. apparently the thing actually hooks into the plumbing and flushes it all away, so there's nothing to empty.

[Scoop 0]

You could make your cat piss & shit in other peoples gardens, thats what they apprantly do in our neighbourhood - fuckers!

[AggieDave 6]

I understand its different, I was commenting on the last success of the "wonder" product for cat boxes.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[Nightingale 0]

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You could make your cat piss & shit in other peoples gardens, thats what they apprantly do in our neighbourhood - fuckers!

My cats are strictly indoors. It's not safe for cats outside around here. Cars, coyotes. My parents lost two cats to coyotes, and one to a car. Mine stay inside.

[Nightingale 0]

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I understand its different, I was commenting on the last success of the "wonder" product for cat boxes.

I had one of those littermaid boxes a few years ago. It worked pretty well, but stopped after about 2 years. The little containers were expensive, though.

[Buried 0]

doesn't seem to slice and dice. so useless!

Where is my fizzy-lifting drink?

[skycat 0]

Well I have the other type of cat box and while it works well, it's a pain in the butt to change waste bins.

I'd love to know if this thing works also, well and then if it does I'd have to figure out how to fit it in my tiny bathroom. Maybe pookiebear would let me put it in the basement bathroom.

Fly it like you stole it!

[Nightingale 0]

I was reading on a cat forum about it. people have tapped into sink lines (put a T connecter in the water line and the drain line) too, so location might not be a huge problem.

[mrGuy 0]

The thing looks like a toilet. Works like a toilet. takes up space like a toilet.

Why not train the cat to go in the TOILET? From what I've heard it is something that any cat can learn, and they even have these training pan things at PetCo that make it a step by step thing.

Just like Jinxy in "meet the parents."

I've been thinking about trying it out on my cats.

EDIT: I just looked for the price....only $299.99!!!

No thanks!

[Nightingale 0]

I tried the toilet train the cat thing. It worked for a while for the little cat, but my 17 pound cat stepped on the trainer thing and pretty much bent it and fell in, and wanted nothing to do with it after that.

[mrGuy 0]

Cats are never funnier than when they fall in the toilet! (but then you gotta clean them up, and that sucks)

[Nightingale 0]

When Indy (the little cat) was about 6 months old, he fell in the toilet and somehow managed to close the lid when I wasn't home. I came home and heard this god-awful cat howling echoing everywhere, and I spent about 15 mins looking for the cat, and finally went into the bathroom. The toilet lid went thunk, I opened it up, and there was this soaked little kitten sitting on the shallow part of the bowl... he looked up at me and went "mew" and I about fell over laughing. Cat was not happy when he was removed from toilet water and promptly deposited in the bathtub for a thorough scrubbing.

[Sweetness 0]

I hope some day someone will invent the amazing self packing rig ... now *that* would be usefull !

"Ha ! I laugh at danger and drop ice cubes down the vest of fear ..." (Blackadder)

[demoss99 0]

What our littermate doesn't "rake" into the little hopper, my border collie takes care of...Just don't let him give you kisses!!!! His teeth are remarkably white though. I'm thinking that abrasive litter must work like a milkbone or something - haha.

Seriously, our neighbor bought that unit you're looking at and says it works very well. She has 4 cats so it gets a workout I'm sure.

"I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."

[SpeedRacer 1]

One of my cats (Sonny, the male) likes to kick the cat litter way the hell out of the box when he's finished. It gets litter all over the floor. After a while he has enough on the floor so that he can later use the floor itself as a litter box.

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[mnealtx 0]

Get an enclosed box...he'll still kick it up against the back wall (and you'll have to smooth it back out), but at least it'll still be in the box!!!

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[SpeedRacer 1]

I've got an enclosed box! He kicks it out through the front opening!

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[mnealtx 0]

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I've got an enclosed box! He kicks it out through the front opening!

Determined little fucker, aint he??

Here ya go!

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[Clownburner 0]

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I hope some day someone will invent the amazing self packing rig ... now *that* would be usefull !

They did! I leave my rig unpacked on the ground with a $5 bill on it, and it packs itself.

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[fireflytx 0]

My one cat likes to pee up to high on their enclosed litter box and then it leaks down the back. Any solutions to that?

"Well behaved women rarely make history"

[swedishcelt 0]

It needs a cover. My cat has been in the closet in an enclosed box with a cover for so long he refuses to go if anyone looks at him.

[Michele 1]

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My one cat likes to pee up to high on their enclosed litter box and then it leaks down the back. Any solutions to that?

I have a cat who'll do that if the box isn't smack against the wall on three sides. How on three sides? It's wedged between two walls and the hot water heater...they don't like their tail touching anything, so in preventing them from three walls makes them face the opening, and so they stay in the litter box that way.

I'll think about it, and see if I can't figure out another solution...but that works for my guys.

[Edited to add: sorry, I misread the original post. In an enclosed box, try lining it with newspapers. Allow the papers to "creep" up the sides. This will help prevent leaks in btween the seams...and another friend of mine uses duct tape. Not sure how she cleans the box, but apparently it can be done. Sorry about that!]

Ciels-
Michele

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