Do the automatic cat litter scoopers need a special type of litter besides clumping?
Oct 04, 2008 by Desi | Posted in Cats
My roommate has two cats and she believes that the automatic litter box scoopers need a special type of litter besides just regular clumping. Does anyone own one or know anything about them?
The Littermaid style ones need High Quality clumping litter. The no-name brands often crumble when jarred too much, so the rake will make them fall apart.
I have an automatic box that uses Crystals not clumping litter. It works so much better for me than the Littermaid I used to have.
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Forget the litter box, let the cat use YOUR toilet — The Gadgeteer
by Julie
Doesn’t work particularly well. All available anecdata (=Google) suggests that cats are intelligent enough to learn to use the toilet, but that because water-based waste management doesn’t map onto natural cat behaviour the same way as burying, the first time the cat hits a ‘roadblock’ of illness or discomfort or social discomfort (like a new person or pet added to the household) it’ll go right back to normal cat behaviour. Probably somewhere annoying-to-humans.
Kittens merely weeks old learn from their mums to bury their waste, and the ‘learning’ is probably mapping onto instinctive behaviour. You’ve got a long way to go if you’re trying to hot-wire the feline brain to fit human ‘convenience/s’.
This looks like a solid training kit, albeit unnecessary. You can “make” the same kit with an aluminum basting pan and cut your own holes. The key is to do the process SLOWLY. The steps should take months sometimes – EACH. If you forgot when you last changed from the previous step, then you can probably move to the next step. I’ve trained my cats for the last 21 years (currently have 4 cats that do it). It CAN take over 1 year to do it, but if you weigh this out with the average lifespan of a cat, you’ll come out ahead. Think of the savings in litter alone!
And to the author of this article, do you find it grosser to have your cat using the toilet than scooping cat feces & urine out of a stinky litter box? Hey, if it really grosses you out, give them their own bathroom!
@anthony The idea of my cat sitting on my toilet seat doing his biz grosses me out because I think about the possibility of him sprinkling when he’s tinkling or leaving a dingle berry on the seat or something like that. I would feel like I would need to clean the toilet seat everytime I would want use it. And actually my cat has his own bathroom… His CatGenie (which...
