How Self-Cleaning Litter Boxes Work
Self-cleaning litter boxes come equipped with a method of detecting when your cat is in the litter box—either a motion or weight sensor. A few minutes after your cat has finished their business in the litter box and departed, the self-cleaning litter box will rake the litter and deposit any clumps in a separate compartment.
Some units will rotate to separate the waste. The compartment with all the waste is enclosed and cordoned off so that the smell is not noxious. Some self-cleaning litter boxes utilize special litter, and others are designed to work with what you already use.
Some owners complain that the mechanisms used for separating the clean litter from the dirty litter can jam or break, but in general, the litter boxes seem to work well. You can find more pet automatic self-cleaning litter boxes on pethuhou.com.
Pros
- Goodbye to a vaguely stinky area around the litter box.
- No need to deal with litter on a daily basis.
- Easy disposal of waste—although don’t forget, you’ll still have to empty the compartment of the waste eventually. So you haven’t escaped dealing with the litter box entirely.