Neakasa M1 Open-Top Self Cleaning Cat Litter Box, Automatic Cat Litter Box with APP Control, Odor-Free Waste Disposal Includes Trash Bags

The media could not be loaded. Long but worth the read to know how to get your cats to use it. I chose this automatic litter box because of the open top. I have a male sphynx who has a long body and weighs 10 lbs and I also have a small female sphynx who weighs 6 pounds. My male does this crazy looking thing where he stands up on his hind legs and holds onto the side and pees. I had a feeling the enclosed litter robot might not work for him. I’m using the arm and hammer hard ball litter in this and it works wonderfully. The smell of this litter is amazing!! My whole room smells nice. Sphynx cats eat more than other cats and they are stinky when they poop! They can clear a room! The only time I smell the box is while they’re pooping and I never smell it again. I have this box set to turn over the poop to make sure it’s coated good and then clean and dump it 7 minutes after they get out! It’s perfect timing for my cats. It gives it time to clump and then dump. When I first started setting it up which is a breeze to do btw, my male kept jumping in it like it was a box to play in. I had to remove him 3 times to finish. I activated it to level the litter and he was fascinated with the movement and watched it. I removed their old breeze box completely out of sight and placed this new one in the exact same spot that the old box was. This is gross and graphic but it’s how you need to do it: The way you get them to use it is, you take a decent sized, coated with old cat litter turd out of your old box, you can use a glove, but I just used a few paper towels and picked the biggest one out before throwing the old box away. It was pretty dried so it broke up into 3 pieces when I went to put it in the new litter which worked out because I planted and slightly buried with the tops still showing slightly in 3 places spaced out in the new litter box. Make sure your new box here is set to manual instead of automatic so that it doesn’t dump your turds you just planted right away. If you have multiple cats, you can set it back to automatic AFTER ALL your cats have done their business. My male sniffed and quickly realized that this is not a box to play in but a box to do his business. He cautiously climbed up in it and scratched around and finally positioned himself which I took a picture of. My female was sleeping at the time, so she hadn’t had a chance to notice the new box yet, so the old turds and his business he just did was left in there. When she woke up, she went to the area and just stood there and looked at it for a couple of minutes but then she started smelling and inched closer to get a better whiff and check it out. Now, she’s pretty tiny so when she went to climb in, she struggled a little because it’s taller than what she’s used to. I need to find a small step but I haven’t found one yet that I can place in front of it on the mat to help her. I left her alone tho and didn’t help her because she was in the mood to use the box so I didn’t want to distract her or have her associate having to go with any disruptions so I let her struggle and pull herself up in there. She did the same thing he did, smelled for awhile and scratched around a bit and then she peed. I let her take her time getting out and go on about her business and then I turned the automatic on a few minutes later. Both cats just watched it move and it was very quiet so I didn’t bother them at all. They have used it every time like normal since and that was last Friday when I got it. I decided to check the drawer 4 days later and it was time to take the bag out and put a new one. Just DON’T open the drawer until you’re ready to change it because, it’s stinky when you open it. The drawer is sealed very well though and contains the smell so you only smell it when you open it. I’ve never smelled it at all before when walking by the box. I decided every 4 days was a good time frame to check and change the bag for my two cats so I set a 4 day reminder in the app. I love how you can just cinch it up and throw it away and the bags aren’t cheap. They are heavy duty! God!! That’s so easy and quick! I love it!! I may change litter but I love the smell of this one so much that I don’t want to. My male is a wild man getting out after he does his business. I guess he feels so good and light that he just barrels out of there so he flings. The mat is great though! I just fold it up a little on the sides once a day and dump it back in the box. I put another rug on the other side of the mat to catch anything in case he jumps out and over which he almost always does. That is working well. I was a little nervous about making this investment but it’s the best decision I’ve ever made for my cats and sooo worth it! I’ll never go back to sifting turds out everyday again!

I have 3 cats and stick very strictly to the “1 litter box per cat plus one extra” rule. So the idea of needing to buy multiple automatic litter boxes sounded way too expensive. Before I bought my first automatic litter box I did a ton of research and concluded this one was the best choice for my cats. I knew they would need a large surface and a big open top. Two of my cats are very skittish and would probably never enter a litter box that had a tiny hole.I bought my first litter box during a sale which made it feel a little more reasonable, but the price still seemed excessive. It was super easy to setup and the cats started using it pretty quickly. I still had my other litter boxes, but I was excited to see that they used both.Fast forward a few months and I needed to separate two of my cats due to fighting. Which meant I needed to put a litter box in my bedroom. I was really grossed out by the idea and was only willing to put a self cleaning litter box in my room. So naturally I bought a second one rather than moving the one I already owned. It has now been in my bedroom for a few months and I have been very pleased with how clean and almost odorless everything is. Eventually I bought another one when there was a sale, which I rationalized was okay because at least I was getting a deal! This brought me up to 3 automatic litter boxes and 1 archaic/gross box that I had to clean. It was amazing at how quickly I came to believe automatic boxes were the only way to live.I have been waiting for another deal to complete my collection and when I saw the litter box was on sale, and at the best price I have ever seen, I jumped on it (metaphorically) . Thus concluding my journey to a 100% automatic litter box home. Some may view it as extremely posh to have 4 of them, but the joy of not having to clean a litter box daily has been completely worth it.It’s not perfect. The machine tends to drop waste so everything piles up all in one place. The bags aren't my favorite and putting them in the bottom compartment always feels wonky. Sometimes litter waste can clog up some of the sifter section. But even with these faults, I doubt there is a litter box currently on the market in the same price range as this product that is better. And those issues still don’t outweigh cleaning 4 litter boxes daily in my eyes. They better last the lifespan of my cats! LolOne last thing, if your power goes out quite often, this might not be the right path for you.