I despise cleaning the kitty box. When we got my cat my son swore that he would care for the kitty and scoop the litter box. But you know how that goes. He never did wind up taking care of the kitty. I took care of this cat. After which he came home with another kitty. I then was focusing on 2 cats. Eventually after the cat came and I decided I'd splurge on a few of those self-cleaning litterboxes therefore that I wouldn't have to scoop cat poles anymore. Well I spent $200 on the very top of the line self-cleaning cat Litterbox for the cats and that is what happened:
Litterbox
As soon as I brought the box home and set it up I abandoned the litter boxes the way they were if the cats did not want to make use of the brand new litter box because I didn't want them going on to the ground. One cat carefully entered the self-cleaning litterbox through the top entry. The litterbox started clean up after him while he was still going. He was panicked by the noise that the cleaning mechanism made although it said it had been a silent mechanism. So he jumped out of the box, still pooping, and conducted down the whole upstairs hall trailing poop. I had been convinced that I just had wasted $200 and made longer benefit myself personally.
Once I spend a hour cleaning up the hall way and shampooing the rugs I went to confirm the litterbox again. Cat number-two jumped from the box also used it. Once more the noise started however this kitty was not amazed by the sound. Cat number two sauntered out of the box without a care in the world and the box clicked to life and raked through the box cleaning it out.
Over the next two days I kept a close watch on all the boxes. I never saw cat number three use the self cleaning box. Not once. Cat number two took to it right away and has used it with no problems ever since. Cat number one some times uses it but still favors the normal boxes using routine scooping litter. So I spent $200 to get an extra clutter box which just 1 cat uses and that I still have to scoop out litter boxes every day.
Less-expensive
In the end I think that pets, like kids, are not predictable and their experiences and personalities could ascertain whether they like the things they are supposed to enjoy or maybe not. I really don't understand why only one of my cats uses the self cleaning box which I paid plenty of money for. But hopefully the other two will figure out how to make use of it someday. I won't get rid of this because I am stubborn and I am not likely to throw away that kind of cash. However, if I needed it to do over again I definitely would have bought a less expensive self cleaning box or merely stuck for the regular boxes with regular clumping mess.