I Switched to Self-Cleaning Litter Boxes in My Home, and I Wish I'd Done It Sooner
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Two years ago, I reluctantly inherited a cat. The cat is both mine and not mine: Sky belongs to my daughter, who owns her in the way a pet can "belong" to a minor while an adult operates silently in the background, managing its costs and responsibilities. Chalking it up as an opportunity to teach my kid new skills, I rarely feed Sky, brush her coat, or clean her litter box. Instead, I chose the worse task of incessantly reminding a teenager to do them. If you have a cat, you're likely familiar with the challenges that come from a dirty litter box. And if you have a teenager, you know how frequently they can resist completing tasks. But only if you have both can you understand just how bad Sky's litter box situation became: the rancid smell, the spilled litter across the floor, and a cat who looked for alternatives to their unsanitary box. Stubbornly, I wanted a solution that would address both my cat litter problem a...
