Rolling litter
Posted by blueraindrop on May 28, 2009
Random cool product: Omega Paw Roll’n Litter Box
No, it’s not on wheels.
It’s a covered litter box, and one side is round.
Like so…
The litter pan area takes up about 2/3 of the bottom part. The remaining 1/3 is closed off by a grate. (They call it a screen, looks more like a grate to me. Bars are about the distance apart as your random litter scoop).
So what happens, is that you roll the litter box over.
All the clean litter goes through the gate into the reserve area, where it hangs out for a bit.
As you keep rolling, all of the solids and clumps that stayed on top of the grate then drop over into the area above that reserve.
When you then roll it back, they roll/slide along the edge into this drawer that covers the reserve, sitting up against the edge. You pull the drawer out, dump it, and put it back in.
And when you have it back to level, you roll it a bit to the other side, and all the clean litter comes back out of its reserve area into the cat use part.
One minute or so of effort… and cat box is done.
Wasn’t too sure about it at first, as amazon has mixed reviews… but the petco site seemed to have almost pure positive, so decided to try it. Plus I had 15 in amazon cards from swagbucks points, which made it about 15 with free shipping, so figured even if it got used as a normal covered box I’d be ahead.
Thus far, this thing has worked great! Soo much faster with 3 cats,
Bonus perk… rolling a litter box upside down is amusing enough to a 7 year old that I don’t have to do it.
Kiddo accidentally grabbed one of the sliding clamps that hold the halves together once when rolling, and we had a tiny bit of litter go out from that… but less than the cats usually kick out. And the bottom being deeper that the normal covered litter box we have, they have been kicking out a ton less. I pointed out to her where the sliding clips are, and it hasn’t happened again.
I left both of the other boxes in use for a while to make sure they were gonna use the new one, but they have been, so I think the uncovered one is being taken out of use this week. I’d like to get another of the rolling ones to replace the covered one too, but I’m gonna wait a few months to make sure we don’t have any issues down the road.
I’m still waiting for the first time she accidentally rolls it with a cat inside though. I’m sure it’s gonna happen eventually.
