Kitty Litter Box Saga

Kitty Litter Box Saga

I don't have a cat. My roommate has a cat.

A cat I take care of when he's away for a few days. At which point, I realize how poorly he's been taking care of said cat.

He is really bad at changing the cat's litter box. To assist at one point, I bought a "self-cleaning" kitty litter box.

Not REALLY self-cleaning, of course. There are two levels of "self-cleaning" kitty litter boxes. The really expensive kind that requires hooking up to your plumbing. (Cost-prohibitive and it requires a certain amount of bathroom real estate that we don't have... and it would still require SOME maintenance.) And then there's the economy "self-cleaning" kitty litter box:

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It'd make cleaning the litter box just that much easier, so I thought!

"Problem" with the design is that it assumes that you're going to be doing this EVERY DAY.

When you don't bother tending to the litter box for days/weeks and try to employ this rolling motion... IT DOES NOTHING. You basically just have to open up the box and manually replace the litter.

Long story short, the grand experiment was a failure. Litter box cleanliness was in a WORSE condition than it was before. So today, since the roommate's away for the weekend, I decided to replace the "self-cleaning" box with the traditional box you see at the head of the post.

And it was only $27 (with tax) at the local pet store!

Here's a pet store cat I took a picture of while the hungover pet store clerk rang up my purchase:

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