Welcome To Litter Box Hell
Written: Jun 27 '01
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Product Rating:
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Pros: NONE WHATSOEVER!
Cons: Hard to clean, smells, malfunctions, noisy
The Bottom Line: Do not waste your money on this. It's more work than a regular litterbox, smells, and is hard to clean. It also malfunctions.
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| claire8346's Full Review: Litter Maid Advanced Deluxe Litter Maid Litter Box |
If you've seen the TV commercial, you've seen that the littermaid is a catbox with a motion sensor rake that brushes the poop into a receptacle a few minutes after kitty has done his business. What the commercial doesn't tell you is that the rake constantly malfunctions and that the poop receptacle is just a little uncovered bin next to the box which you still have to empty at least once a day. All in all, I was very disappointed with this product and felt I'd thrown my money away.
Assembling the Littermaid cat box was fairly easy. I followed the directions carefully, however, I must say that plugging a cat box felt sort of wrong....but I was determined. As I continued to read the Littermaid directions, I was surprised to read that the motion detector/sensor on the rake had to be kept clean at all times for the sensor to work properly. HELLO!!!! THIS IS A CATBOX AND MY CAT CAN'T READ. There is no way, I thought, that the motion detector won't get litter on it. Still. I had faith that it would all be worth it. It wasn't.
The first day my kitties used the box with no hesitation. A few minutes after they were done, the rake started chugging away and slowly brushed through the litter catching all the clumps. Voila! The clumps were raked into the plastic receptacle and I had no scooping to do. Or so I thought. The receptacle began to smell so I emptied it right away. That's when I realized that I still had to bend over and empty this receptacle every time the cats used the box. Hmmmm. How much easier was this then scooping?
That night, the cats used the box again. Since we lived in an apartment at the time, the noise woke us up more than once. But that wasn't the worst of it. On the 3rd or 4rth night the rake did it's thing but the noise didn't stop. I got out of bed to check the box and the rake was stuck and making a horrible grinding noise. I fixed the jam somehow (or so I thought) but later, it did the same thing. This was getting to be a pain. This stuck rake problem happened a lot.
Beside the fact that the rake got stuck, the rake also got extremely dirty. Cleaning clumped litter and poop off a rake is about 10 times more disgusting than scooping nice neat clumps of litter into a plastic bag. After one rake cleaning and a few more malfunctions, I finally trashed the whole Littermaid and went out and bought a Super Gigante litterbox with a privacy hood. My cats loved it and I never have to hear the sound of the malfunctioning rake grinding away again.
Trust Me. Using a good odor control clumping litter like Arm & Hammer or Tidy Cat Clump and just scooping is much cleaner and easier than using a Littermaid. Save your money.
Recommended:
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