Charmkit Self Cleaning Cat Litter Tray, Electric Entrance

This really is an excellent product and now I have it I wouldn’t be able to live without it. I didn’t appreciate until I used it how important a video camera would be on a self-cleaning cat litter tray as not all trays have a video camera. The camera means that I can view that the tray is clean, I can easily check the litter level, and at the start when my cats first started using it it was really useful to watch them exploring it. I look at the video several times a day as its fascinating watching it cleaning the feces away. Now it’s probably my Internet signal but my Tuya app did say on a couple of occasions that the device was ‘offline’. This didn’t stop the tray working but it stopped me accessing the app. Easily sorted by unplugging and plugging back in however, I found a simple solution was to just plug it into a smart plug and that way I could switch the plug socket on and off from my phone which is handy if you are not at home. It’s fantastic that my fussy posh siamese pair of cats can go into a clean litter tray every time. Now they are used to it they love it. I’ve set mine up in a spare ensuite bathroom that I don’t use but it is quite sizey but would be great in an under stairs cupboard or something like that. I was using a sifting cat tray before with wood cat litter so first I had to get my cats used to clumping cat litter in their usual tray for about a week at first as they were scared of a different type of cat litter, then after about a week when they were used to the litter I took their old tray away so they had to use the new one. So was a bit slow as they were nervous but they got the hand of it and love it now so it’s more than worth your patience. The very first clumping litter I tried was a linen scented super clumping cat little petsentials. A lucky first try as it works great in this self cleaning cat litter tray and smells great too. Although the feces can be left in the base unit, I still prefer to pick out the clumps daily and poo op them into a nappy sack ( just my personal preference). My 2 cats have been properly using it for 2 weeks now and it still looks really clean inside and I just add a scoop of litter each day to keep it topped up but I really can’t see me needing to wash the whole thing or have to fully change the litter very often at all (I’d say longer than suggested as I reckon the way it is going now I could get away with at least a couple of months between washing. Tracking is far less than my previous wood based cat litter and smells significantly reduced, maybe just an initial quick smell the moment they’ve done a poop but it’s immediately taken away and with me using scented cat litter even the feces tray doesn’t smell bad when I open it to empty it. No waste age of cat litter either as only the clumps fall into the feces tray and hardly any excess so cat litter lasts really well. I’ve not added any other device such as the hose nor the attachment air thingy you can buy sepately to put on the side nor have I put any additional deodoriser in the feces tray as I feel the scented cat litter is solving any smell issues on its own. With regard to replacement bags for the tray. I’ve personally just popped a folded over puppy training pad in the feces tray and it makes it easy and flat for me to lift out the feces daily into a nappy sack which is much cheaper than buying the bags, but if you intend to leave feces collection for a longer period then using the proper liner bags are probably a better option but it’s just handy to know that there are alternatives. So all in all this is a fantastic product. I did my research and this is one of the only ones on the market with the video camera, and its not actually until you use it that you can appreciate just how much of an asset the video camera is so I am over the moon with my choice and am confident I got the best one at the best price. I thought my robot lawnmower was a game changer but this is now right up there with it. My cats paws now smell nice too ADDITIONAL INFO… it’s a good idea to set the device to not automatically clean when your cat is using this for the first few times as you can press the button to ‘clean’ yourself on the app when your cat is away from the tray. This is so that the cat can get used to using the tray before hearing the cleaning noise. Also once they are used to using the tray and you set it to automatically clean, you can adjust the time the machine waits before cleaning to a longer time. This can be a good idea if your cat doesn’t like the sound of the cleaning (I noticed another reviewer mentioned their cat was frightened) but although my cats were wary at first they now find the cleaning noise intriguing so you will more than likely overcome any initial teething problems with them getting used to it fairly quickly if you follow those steps and have a little patience in the first week or 2.