Automatic Cat Litter "Blog"

If you have ever dreamed that your kitty could clean her own litter box, then an automatic kitty litter box is something you supposed to be have. Before you consider to purchase one, it may need some time for your feline to become comfortable with your new automated cat box, so keep the traditional manual litter box around for a moment to prevent suddenly change boxes. In this way, we hope your cat will realize the always clean nature of the new automatic litter box and start using it completely.

Consider Your cat’s unique nature
When selecting a new automatic litter box, the final goal of every cat owner is the one that is attractive to the cat so that he will be certain to use it, and you can achieve that purpose in many ways. Some Important things to consider:

• If your kitty is very sensitive to sounds, you will want self-cleaning litter box that has a very quiet mechanism so that your cat is not scared if she hears it in action.
• If your feline is easily scared about mechanical devices movement, you will want to choose an automatic cleaning litter box that has least or hidden movement.
• If your cat doesn’t like narrow areas where he may feel trapped, an open style of automatic cat box (with optional hood) will be a better choice for him. Bear in mind that Hooded boxes model can aid to prevent the spread of dust and smell, but may be difficult for bigger feline to use and offer poor ventilation.
• If you have a large cat or multiple cat, the ideal choice of an automatic cat litter box will be a larger model designed for multiple users.
• The depth of the pan and the height of the lip at the entrance supposed to be deep enough to handle serious digger cats from scattering litter outside the box, but shallow enough that your kitten can easily go in and out of the box. It is recommended to buy litter box as large as you can since your kitten will grow up soon.

Consider Your Surrounding

• If you live in small apartment with no water line, you can not use CatGenie litter box. You may interested in other models such as Litter-Robot, Scoopfree, LitterMaid etc.
• If safety, health and sanitary is your primary concern, you may want to avoid using Scoopfree Litter Box, since it use silica gel that can be harmfull for baby or other pets (though it is still debatable). In this way, CatGenie may be your suitable choice, because it fully take care of cat waste and urine leaving reusable dry granule only. No dirty waste store within house.
• You will want to choose a litter box that is big enough to handle the size and number of cats that will be using it, but small enough to fit neatly into the room where you place it.

Budget Or Convenience Consideration

• If you want to keep ongoing costs down and convenience up, the ideal choice of an automatic cleaning litter box will be the one that allows use of regular garbage bags as opposed to specialized containers. Litter-Robot is one of good example of durable, low ongoing cost automatic litter box.
• If you really on tight budget, a semi automatic model (such as omega paw) may be your best option. It does not fully automatic, you need to manually shake or rotate the waste into an easy to remove litter tray.
• Most automatic cat litter boxes have some form of guarantee. This is an important consideration given that all have some form of moving parts. Besides, you may need to return it if your cat refuse to use it.

Iam not going to waste your time any further, he are some handfull automatic kitty litter box comparison on the market today:

C H A R T	Litter Robot	Cat Genie	Litter Maid	Scoop Free
P r o s	Can be operate based on certain schedule	No take care of cat waste as it wash, rinse, dry granule automaticaly	Cheapest automatic cat litter box among others	No need litter replacement
	Bigger vessel for waste than LitterMaid or ScoopFree	Cat urine drains immediately leaving reusable dry granules	Closed container keep smell stay inside	Clean-up is dust free
		No waste store within home		Has optional hood
C o n s	Can not remove the cover, since some cat feel entrapped with covered litter box	Washable granule tend to scatter without hooded in place	Small size of vessel require regular weekly maintenance	Refills are somewhat expensive
	Some smell still can escape through some hole in vessel	Require access to nearby cold water tap and drain	Sensitive to litter level for right operation	30 days tray can last just for 2 weeks
	Large in size compare to another			Silica gel can be harmfull for baby or other pets
	197 Reviews 1 used & new available from USD 329.00	255 Reviews 0 used & new available from —	691 Reviews 6 used & new available from USD 84.99	508 Reviews 9 used & new available from USD 78.99

References:
http://www.liveautomatic.com/reviews/for-pets/37-for-pets/67-litter-robot-vs-cat-genie-vs-littermaid-vs-scoop-free