If you are like me, among my least favorite chores is to clean out the cat litter box.
It is necessary for sanitation, obviously, and also to eliminate the risk of toxoplasmosis - the parasite we pay attention to for our pregnant clients.
So how do we make it easier? By having the litter box do the work for us.
Several clinics where I did relief work had these automated litter boxes. What the box does is comb through the litter 10 minutes after the cat is in the box (the time is adjustable). It then scoops out the urine clump, or BM into a box receptacle that then gets emptied daily.
You do have to use clumping litter, but the Littermaid brand also has a nice rig like ramp that helps to trap the little litter particles so they do not get spread throughout the house.
There are several on the market, but Littermaid (at http://www.littermaid.com) does work the best. Several of the clinics mentioned to me they bought the less expensive ones, but this worked the best, and most reliably.
So something for your kitty's stocking - and yours!
