Cat Genie!

[LesleyW]

Obviously I’ve found the right guy, as this is what he gave me for our one year anniversary

Cat pee is my kryptonite – nothing makes me crazier than walking in the house and encountering that smell. I’ve tried every kind of cat litter available, pine pellets, recycled newspaper, corn – even the snap-crackle-and-pop silica beads, and nothing really hides the fact that you’re living with a box of crap.
Does anyone have any experience with the Cat Genie? Looks like an impressive piece of kit, going to set it up this weekend and see what my two meezers think of it.

[LesleyW]

Video explaining how it works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIhxAptRF5o

[js]

What does it drain into? It didn’t show that. Looks a bit complex with all the washing and drying. Wonder how long the process takes?

theres also this one. https://www.litter-robot.com/all-litter-robots.html?gclid=COOZwdbe8c4CFdU6gQodiCoE9A&gclsrc=aw.ds

[LesleyW]

It actually plumbs right into the lines for the toilet. I have a very large cupboard in the bathroom that should hide it nicely.
I looked at the Litter Robot - it still entails emptying cat litter.
The Cat Genie has little permanent beads shaped like cat litter, and cleaned through the regular wash cycle. Liquid drains through the bottom and out through the plumbing, solids are scraped up by the “claw” and dumped into a hopper. There, they’re mixed with a solution and drained into the toilet.

Gawd I hope this works. Much as I love my cats, I’ve hated litter boxes my entire life.

[macmtn]

Seems a long way to go for a clean litterbox, and I am not sure I would want their ‘solution’ to go into my septic tank.

Have tried many inventions trying to not do box duty. Most notable was a $250 electric auto scooper…which workd exactly 4 times before the Mafia discovered it could be a toy. And deliberately worked it to death.

neatest trick I saw was a system of a shaped litter box that sat over the toilet seat. Cats learned to use the box while on the toidy. Then you remove the litterbox…cats use the toidy all on their own.
A friend set this up ina dedicated just for the cats spare bathroom and never had to clean a box again. Flush a couple times a day…done.
of course the seat had to be replaced fairly frequently due to claw marks…but it was a cat toidy anyway.

[Rudy]

The litter robot is my favorite litterbox to date… now if the cats would stop turning it on for fun…

[Sugarwells]

http://www.citikitty.com
I’m all about this right now.

[LesleyW]

That sounds like the perfect solution. In the meantime, I’m looking forward to no more scooping poop and no more cats tracking up dirt from my musty, 100-year-old basement on their paws.

[macmtn]

[QUOTE=Sugarwells;8827996]
http://www.citikitty.com
I’m all about this right now.[/QUOTE]

Yep-that’s the one.

[saje]

I have 2 Cat Genies and one Litter Robot. One Genie drains into the washer drain in the laundry room, the other into what used to be the tub drain in the bathroom (that doesn’t have a tub in it anymore).

All three are a lifesaver with 10 cats in the house! I also have one regular box filled with pine pellets, jut in case.

My Robot is getting old though, so I need to save my pennies for the newer version.

Love my auto-boxes!

[lauralite]

[QUOTE=macmtn;8828777]
Yep-that’s the one.[/QUOTE]

Has anyone ever used this (or something similar) with only one bathroom in the house?

I technically have a second toilet in the basement, but it isn’t functional at the moment (I recently bought this house) and while I’d like to get it working some day, there are higher priorities.

I briefly looked at the cat genie, but some of the reviews I read have me hesitate. I have a really small house and the thought of it being filled with the smell of cooking cat poop … ugh.

[saje]

It does happen occasionally, sometimes the poop gets pushed to the exact center of the bowl and doesn’t get scooped. I’ve had it happen too if a cat has gut troubles and the runs. But, for me anyway, it’s really not all that often. I think the last time I had to manually run it a second time was this winter. My house is 1500 sq ft, all one floor & no basement, just for comparison.

[LesleyW]

It’s good to hear the feedback. Hoping there won’t be any poo-cooking, nor exploding.

[Justmyluck]

I feel like those enclosed systems are just waiting to produce inappropriately urinating cats. I also don’t get how some many people can have an issue with odor. I have a one huge, think sandbox sized, litter box with Fresh Step unscented and a kick ass air purifier sitting next to it and no one who walks into my home knows I have 3 cats.

[Sugarwells]

@lauralite;8830360

Has anyone ever used this (or something similar) with only one bathroom in the house?

The apartment I was living in when I started using it only had 1 bathroom, and my cat was on the second ring. Then we moved into a house with still only one bathroom, but a huge backyard (that she never leaves) that has a few dirt areas that my cat turned into litter boxes. So now when I do daily dog poop pick ups I just scoop the outdoor dirt “litter boxes” also.

I love my cat, and thought I couldn’t love her anymore than I did already, that was until she creates her own outdoor box.