We’re getting ready to move in just a few weeks and have been planning out how we’re going to arrange things at the new house. Though we’ll have a lot more space than we currently have, we’d like to maximize as much of it as we can just the same.
So we’ve been thinking up ways to “hide” the litter boxes. Our laundry room will be big enough for them to go there, and ideally I’d like to make the space pull extra duty. We’ve looked at cabinets that double as litter boxes but the prices so far have been …read more

My cats are, I swear, nothing short of cheap entertainment!
Two of the three have a habit of cleaning their litter boxes from top to bottom after using them. I don’t mean the usual “covering up” after their business is done – they stay in the box a minute or so more and scratch at every nook and corner of the box itself and then the lid.
Not surprising for a cat, I suppose, and it’s funny during the day but we can hear them at night too. Does your cat insist of scouring the box when he or she is …read more

I love the idea of robotic or motorized litter boxes – it’s one of my least favorite chores. We tried a Littermaid years ago and were unimpressed – it was noisy and broke down completely within six months, but not before flinging poop and litter across the room randomly when it “cleaned.”
The litterbox above is called a Litter-Robot and if it looks big it is – it stands at 24-by-22-by-29 inches which would take up an entire corner in my house. If anything would definitely be a conversation starter, though!
The process seems simple enough: A sensor in the step …read more