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LitterMaid LM900 reliability Question
I've been thinking about getting one now that I have 2 cats.
However both Kage (4) & Thai-ger (.5) like electronic toys and I'm afraid that they will think this is one and somehow break it. I've looked on Ebay and see a lot of broken, parted out and refurbished units which makes me think they are not so reliable. Any help is welcome thanks |
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"dusty" wrote in message ... I've been thinking about getting one now that I have 2 cats. However both Kage (4) & Thai-ger (.5) like electronic toys and I'm afraid that they will think this is one and somehow break it. I've looked on Ebay and see a lot of broken, parted out and refurbished units which makes me think they are not so reliable. Any help is welcome thanks When my daughter brought her 3 cats to live with me (in other words, the cats are mine now), she gave me her littermaid. I hated it. It was noisey, would get stuck, the tines would load up and not drop the 'stuff' into the container. There are only a few types of litter you can use with it (they call them premium litters), and are more expensive. I have also heard of them shorting out and catching fire, with at least one cat losing her life to the fire. I disconnected it, and it is sitting on the side until I can decide what to do with it. Patti |
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dusty wrote: I've been thinking about getting one now that I have 2 cats. However both Kage (4) & Thai-ger (.5) like electronic toys and I'm afraid that they will think this is one and somehow break it. I've looked on Ebay and see a lot of broken, parted out and refurbished units which makes me think they are not so reliable. Any help is welcome thanks I have 4 LM's for my 6 cats. They are rarely any trouble if you keep up with emptying the bins and keeping the litter level *between* the two fill lines. They don't work well if kept at the "Full" line. They are less trouble, but they are not care-free. I also have been using Arm&Hammer scoop litter in them. It clumps better so I use less litter. Less odor, too. LT |
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I had a large littermaid and got rid of it. It worked great for my cat
that had small pees but for my cat that peed in the corner and had large pees it just made a mess and the tines would be a mess. If you have cats that are under 10 pounds and make reasonable size pees - as opposed to baseballs and they pee in the center of the box, something my Tony will never do, then you have a good chance of it working. It also helps if you don't have cats that dig to China leaving open spots and deeps spots for the rake to go through. Tony was also good at that. He and I had numerous discussions about his use of this new litterbox to make it easier on Meowmy, but they didn't work, so I got rid of the of the littermaid litter box and went back to regular scooping. My other cat at the time complied nicely. But it was not meant to be. Bridget dusty wrote: I've been thinking about getting one now that I have 2 cats. However both Kage (4) & Thai-ger (.5) like electronic toys and I'm afraid that they will think this is one and somehow break it. I've looked on Ebay and see a lot of broken, parted out and refurbished units which makes me think they are not so reliable. Any help is welcome thanks |
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I got rid of mine because with three massive pee-ers the tines were always
gunked up and I couldn't keep up with the tiny receptacle. This was several years ago so model was probably not exactly the same but still similar. However, my sister came up with an idea that made ONE LitterMaid work for her. She elevated the device with a bunch of something, I think it was magazines or maybe a stack of two by fours? Well, I only saw it once - she lives out of state. Anyway, the cat had "steps" to get up to it and the area where the receptable should be was replaced with a larger container --- wide enough to catch everything and deep enough to make emptying be necessary less often. Wish I had thought of this it would have been more helpful with three big pee-ers. (though the tines would still be gunky) - I think they got gunky because with bigger clumps of urine that's a lot of resistance on the tines as it's being shoved across the tray - hence more of it would get stuck into or onto the tines than a light weight clump? Michelle |
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