Automatic Litterbox Central

Once your 18 month warrenty runs out and you modify your LR you can leave it as long as 2 weeks if you make your new drawer big enough. We are never gone longer than that so that was the goal we set when we modified ours.

Now I am wishing we had made it slightly narrower than we did because it won't fit in my new laundry room and one of my older cats has started going right in front of the bot on the floor (carpet in my closet)

Tiffany

I had a Litter Robot before the Scoop Free and I had to change the bag daily or every other day if I shook the box to redistribute the poo. Of course mine was the old original bot and I had 4 cats using it, but still... If I didn't promptly attend to it, the mess was HORRIBLE and I seriously cut myself multiple times on the sharp plastic trying to clean the globe by myself. My husband thought I was exaggerating this to get him to help me with it until he cut himself pretty deeply within the first few minutes of helping me clean it. I know the new one has a larger box and a new design, but I can't imagine it allowing you to go even 10 days with 2 cats and feel secure that you won't end up with a poo covered Death Star. While you still might come home to a mess after that amount of time with the Scoop Free, the difference in ease of cleaning between the two units is light years apart.

Dawn

I am not sure how you were cutting yourself. We have 4 cats and a LR. We modified it so that it drops into a rubbermaid container that is much larger than the orginal drawer. We have gone 2 weeks with out changing the bag it was a little smelly and VERY heavy but didn't smear on the globe.

When I wash my LR I take it out to the back yard and spray it down with the hose. I even did it once in my bathtub as it was below freezing outside. That was a little more awkward but still managed it. I have never cut myself on the LR at all.

Tiffany

TCWiggs wrote:I am not sure how you were cutting yourself. We have 4 cats and a LR. We modified it so that it drops into a rubbermaid container that is much larger than the orginal drawer. We have gone 2 weeks with out changing the bag it was a little smelly and VERY heavy but didn't smear on the globe.

When I wash my LR I take it out to the back yard and spray it down with the hose. I even did it once in my bathtub as it was below freezing outside. That was a little more awkward but still managed it. I have never cut myself on the LR at all.

Tiffany

Did you have a Litter Robot 2 or the original? How did you modify it to go 2 weeks?

Thanks


Mike

I modified our LR1 also, but still prefer the ScoopFree sooooo much more.

MikeRadio wrote:
Tiffany

Did you have a Litter Robot 2 or the original? How did you modify it to go 2 weeks?

Thanks


Mike[/quote]

Orginal LR BTW

We cut a hole in the drawer. Then a hole in the base to line up with the drawer. Built a box with a drawer in it (about 18 inches tall) cut a hole in it to line up with the hole in the LR. Each hole was a little bigger so the waste would not get caught. I covered the whole thing in carpet so it would look so ugly (plywood is not pretty) Put a handle on the drawer and we were off. I can get pictures if you would like to see.

I also taped a piece of black plastic around the hole in the LR drawer to help guide the waste into the rubbermaid container.

Really all that does the two weeks is the size of the container you have. The larger the container the longer you can go.

The carpet has an added benefit of helping keep the smell from coming out. I keep a Arm N Hammer air freshner in there as well as a bucket of cedar shavings. There is room for my box of litter as well as the roll of black trashbags we use to line the box.

Tiffany

I sold the LR a while ago so I can't look in it to identify the part that I cut myself on, but I do know that it was something right inside the main opening on the inside if you were trying to hold it by sticking your hand in and balancing it on your forearm. I use to wash my globe in the tub, but after dealing with the mess and pain of trying to hold the globe up, I started scrubbing it outside with a long brush and a hose. The only thing on the Scoop Free that I find hard to clean is the rake. I have one cat that has soft poo and it smears on the rake sometimes and requires a lot of scraping with cleaner and paper towels and I still don't feel like I get it all off. I wish you could take the rake out and scrub it in warm water.

Dawn