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SCOOP FREE LITTER BOX
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Average Customer Rating:  (309 reviews)
Editorial Review: ScoopFree Self Cleaning Litter Box Spend less time cleaning up after your cats so you can spend more time enjoying them. One touch of a button automatically cleans the litter box to reduce foul odors, create a dust-free environment and leave a fresh batch of litter behind for your pet's pleasure. Disposable trays makes waste disposal easy. Go hassle free for weeks at a time. 27 1/2 x 19 x 7"withplastic tray, 22 1/4 x 14 1/2 x 2 1/2".
Customer Reviews:
0 of 0 found this review helpful:
 For as long as the cats liked it..., 2008-07-15
For as long as the cats liked it, this litter box was great. After about 6 months though, they didn't like it anymore, and switched back to the regular old litter box. Obviously I should have gotten rid of the old litter box! I'm going to try again, though.
0 of 0 found this review helpful:
 Love it sorta, 2008-07-12
After 16+ years of cleaning out kitty litter, I finally broke down and bought the Scoop Free automatic cleaner. I'd read several reviews on different kinds of automatic cleaners and decided on this one. From Day 1 I loved it! It was easy to put together, plug in and voile!! However, contrary to the 20-30 day tray replacement "promise", I barely get to two weeks (14 days) before the wash room starts smelling like urine (at 9 days). I keep the door closed for the most part and am pushing the replacement trying to get to 20 days-- right now I'm on day 15 and I think I'm going to replace it tomorrow. Can't deal with the urine smell. After she poops, the smell lingers for a few hours before it disappears. However, at this point, I am so fed up with cleaning her litter box, and her advanced age, that I figure I'll pay the extra for the convenience. Although at about $17/tray, this is quite a luxury! I cannot imagine having two cats with this.
0 of 0 found this review helpful:
 Make sure your floor is level, 2008-07-12
With no bottom connecting the sides, the Scoop Free unit is essentially a rectangular frame. The disposable litter pan fits in the center of the frame and rests on the floor. If the unit is not on a level surface, the disposable pan does not fit properly in the frame: the rake (or part of the rake) either gets stuck in or moves over the top of the litter. I did not have this problem with my Litter Maid - Litter Maids have their own bottoms, so there are no fitment issues. I like the premise of the Scoop Free unit. I wish that the Scoop Free had a solid bottom and that the disposable pan were placed on top of it. The solid bottom would make the unit rigid enough to be used on unlevel surfaces. It would also protect floors in the event that the litter pan became saturated. .
1 of 1 found this review helpful:
Okay for a while..., 2008-07-08
We bought the ScoopFree box for our cat Penny several months ago for the sake of convenience. We also live in a small apartment and hoped it would cut down on the smell. She was a fairly young cat (about 7 months old), and prior to this had been using a regular scoopable clay litter.
The first couple of days she was wary of the automatic motor, and would not go near it while it was running. She took to it quickly though, and didn't have trouble transitioning to the new type of litter. After a few weeks, she would run to the box and watch it every time she heard the motor start running.
At first we were able to replace the cartridge about once per month, as recommended. But as Penny grew larger (and therefore ate more, and eliminated more), we found ourselves having to replace it every three weeks, and then every two. The smell wasn't terrible, but by the end of two weeks it was certainly noticeable, and worse yet, the chamber to hold the excrement was overflowing. This got to be very expensive to maintain.
After we'd had the litter box for about 6 months, Penny finally stopped using it to poo-poo, and instead would go on the floor beside the litterbox. After some expensive trips to the vet to be sure she wasn't sick, we replaced her litterbox with a normal clay box, and she began using it without problem as long as we scoop it regularly. I think the problem she had was not with the motor or with the litter, but with the smell that would build up inside the crystal litter and inside the poo-poo chamber.
Final verdict: The ScoopFree was very convenient while she used it, since we only had to deal with it once per month, but after Penny grew into a full-sized cat the cartridges did not last as long as we'd hoped so it became expensive, cumbersome, smelly, and eventually useless. Cost was not worth the few months of saved labor, in the long run. I give the product 3 stars because I feel it worked as advertised, and may be enjoyed long-term by cats who are less particular than mine.
1 of 1 found this review helpful:
Great Litter Box!, 2008-07-08
I love this litter box. When we moved recently my two cats were forced to stay inside for a week and weren't used to having a litter box, but they took to this immediately. I have stirred it on occasion and have manually emptied the hard waste to extend the life, but it's been three weeks with two cats and we are still on the first cartridge. I'll admit, though, that it's time to change.
I've tried every automatic litter box that's out there, but this one is the only one I've kept. The others were more work than hand scooping, but this is like a miracle. Since the refills are so expensive, I've decided to try PermaScoop, a permanent litter box made to fit scoop free. It will save big money in the long run.
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