Automatic Litterbox Central

I don't have the litter robot, but from the look of it and it's function I think it may be kind of nasty. Correct me if I'm wrong. Everytime after a cat goes in to poop and pee, this thing will rotate after seven minutes. Does this mean that it will rotate all the litter including the poop and pee in the entire globe before the waste is deposited out. I guess my concern is that this entire globe would go in contact with the litter and to me this sounds like if the cat goes it part of the litter would get on their hair.

With the normal litter box the cats four paws would be in contact, but with this it sounds like the cat's entire body. No matter what when this thing starts rotating some residual poop that we can't see will always be in the globe.

I think you've overstated things, a bit. It isn't gross, but I haven't taken a microscope to it . The cats don't come out with poop, pee on them, though. If we're talking on the particle level, then we may as well get rid of the cats - no matter which box they use.

What happens is the globe rotates. About a quarter way through the rotation the poop and peeps are separated from the other litter by a screen. The "clean" litter goes into a little bag inside the unit. So, then it continues to rotate a little further and the poops and peeps drop through the waste portals. It isn't a full rotation - its probably 3/4 rotation, then it goes back to center.

It does not rotate while the cats use it. It doesn't rotate the poops and peeps around the entire unit.

It is like any other hooded cat box, really, and the cats don't really touch the inside of the globe, except where gravity dictates they must - on the litterbed.

It is in a lot of ways less gross than your cats walking around in a dirty litter box (that isn't cleaned 7 minutes after they use it) and then walking on floors, furniture, and tables. They do as good a job cleaning their bodies as their paws. And, one can clean the globe.

I don't think this is a concern, really.

Thanks for the info. Like what I said I don't really know too much about this thing only from what I read in the description.

Initially I thought this thing just keeps turning the litter in the globe, kind of like a laundry machine....until the poop and pee are out.

reinnie, you were exactly right with your thoughts. i've had the litter robot for about a week, and as it cycles, the globe turns upside down and the poop slides across the top into a drawer. well when the globe is finished cycling, mine has poopie litter stuck to the top, and it is very nasty. i haven't had much success with it, maybe i'm doing something wrong.

I don't know, but from your other posts it may have something to do with the type of litter. Seems like maybe the machine isn't made for it.

We use clay and the corn litter and haven't had these sorts of issues.