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Cats were always a fact of life growing up, and when I moved out, I adopted a couple of my own. Home just didn’t feel like home without an adorable little kitty throwing up hair ties on my bed at 3 am. Cats are great and I love them. No, really. I have dozens of cat paw pins on my various shoulder bags. I have several Pusheens; I know all the words to “Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat” and “Rum Tum Tugger.” But as much as I love cats, as important as they have been to my life, I cannot stand the smell of litter.
I don’t even like the smell of clean litter. I can always feel it tickling my nose, but there’s nothing worse than a litter box past due for a cleaning. Because of that, I’m a fastidious litter scooper. It’s just a household thing that needs to get done, but I kind of hate it. So I spent the past couple of months letting the aptly-named Litter-Robot 3 Connect do it for me.
Never Was There a Box So Clever
The Litter-Robot is exactly what it sounds like—a robotic cat toilet that looks like a spaceship. Once I’d set it up in my living room, every houseguest remarked on how much it looked like a little space pod ready to blast off to the Heaviside Layer. (That’s cat heaven, if you’re unfamiliar.)
It’s a complicated machine but very simple to set up, use, and clean. Right out of the box, it took only about 10 minutes before it was ready to go, and I sat crouched behind the couch watching the cats explore their new toilet robot.
Here’s how it works. Your cat steps in and does its cat business, and once it exits the litter box waits a few minutes before whirring to life. The central barrel—imagine a cement mixe
