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Old January 29th 08, 06:55 PM posted to alt.cats,alt.pets.cats,rec.pets.cats,rec.pets.cats.health+behav,rec.pets.cats.misc
Bob
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Default KITTY LITTER DUST!

I use this one. It claims to be 99% dust free and I find the claim to be
true.
http://www.petsmart.com/product/inde...amily&keepsr=1


"dgk" wrote in message
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:11:13 -0500, "Upscale"
wrote:


"William Graham" wrote in message

I wonder how these automatic, "self cleaning" ones they advertise on TV
work.....Are they safe for the cat? - I mean, I would hate to have one
of

my
cats get caught in the mechanism. Do they know if the cat is currently

using
it?


I've had three Littermaids and finally came to the conclusion that I was
wasting money. The first was replaced under warranty. It died a few weeks
after the one year warranty expired. When the third one screwed up I
tossed
it and didn't bother getting it replace under the warranty. It's almost as
easy to scoop a regular litter box as it is to toss and then replace the
waste tray from one of the automatic units. As far as knowing it's
running,
you can hear it straining the litter. In the beginning, my cat would watch
it running and I'm sure she was jumping into it occasionally just to see
it
run, but she wouldn't jump in if it was running at the time.


This topic comes up often and most folks think that Littermaid is a
waste of money. Having looked around a bit I almost bought this one:

http://www.litter-robot.com/

It is NOT cheap, around $300.

I didn't buy it because I'm going to have the bathroom redone soon and
I'm going to try to have a litter box area where an electric eye turns
on a fan/filter when the darlings use the box. I really don't mind
scooping but I do hate the dust. Checking the litter is one of the
ways we can tell how our felines are feeling and I really hate to give
that up.

But if I was going to buy one of these things, this is the one I would
get.