Arm & Hammer Cat Boxes for Indoor Cats with Microban, Sifting Litter Box, Scoop Free Cat Litter Tray, USA Made

PROs1. I purchased horse pine bed pellets from a Tractor Supply Store ( their own farm store brand) for $6 for a huge bag. I drove 40 minutes to get to that store and purchased 2 bags which will take forever for my cats to go though. Pellets much cheaper than scoopable litter.2. Pellets do turn to sawdust when wet. It can stink if too much wet litter is on the bottom of the brown lower pan and cannot dry out easily. That is why I elevated the white hole pan above it with 5 Chef Boyardee (microwavable) containers (glued to bottom of white pan) so the brown pan can hold more sawdust between emptying and to get more air circulating between brown pan bottom and white hole pan to help dry wet pellets/saw dust out. No more smell.3. I purchased TWO of these litter boxes. I put TWO brown pans inside each other and then put one white hole pan on top of the brown pans and set the rest of the 2nd litter pan in the garage. That way, I can shake the white hole pan into the brown pan and remove the brown pan with litter and set the white hole pan on the 2nd clean brown pan. I then take the 1st brown pan with sawdust in it to the compost pile and dump it. If it needs it I will hose it down in the backyard and let it dry and then place it under the brown pan. Rotating brown pans makes everything easier.4. The white hole pan is dishwasher safe if used on top shelf of dishwasher. Someone put a large sticker on the bottom of the white hole pan covering the holes. It was taking me forever to scrap all the sticker off each and every little hole. I got frustrated and put the white hole pan in my dishwasher top shelf on 1 hour clean and viola - the sticker came off.5. Sawdust is so MUCH LIGHTER than wet half clumped scoopable litter. When I carry the brown bottom pan filled with sawdust to the compost bin outside it is very very light.CONs1) The white "HOLE" pan is too low to the bottom of the brown pan. I read where someone glued pipe ends to bottom of white hole pan but being cheap, I glued 5 empty Chef Boyardee microwave containers (face down) to the bottom of the white hole pan. 4 in each corner and one in the middle as I have a fat cat. These empty Chef Boyardee containers are high enough to allow litter to fall threw the holes and fill the brown pan below. I can also pick up the white hole pan and shake it and the sawdust sifts though the holes into the area beneath.2) It was bit of trouble to get my old cat to use it. I had to put TWO litter pans next to each other. One with scoopable litter and one with pellets. I then put a few bits of her poo in the pellet litter along with a bit of scooapble litter wet with her urine. Then I STOPPED cleaning the scooble litter pan - GROSS. She kept stubbornly using it until the entire top was hard/crusted over. Then she did her business in one of the bedrooms so I closed ALL DOORS. FINALLY she used the pellet litter box and she has been using it every since. My cat is a digger and she gets pellets on the floor but they are easier to sweep up than litter and not tracked as easily either.I am going to cut a hole in the side of a large plastic tub and put my Arm/Hammer sift litter tray inside it to help contain the pellets as my cat really goes to town. To be fair I was going to do this if i had kept using scoopable litter also because my cat is messy.I have tried the crystal litter boxes, the litter box where urine runs through the litter and pools in bottom and you empty it (THE ABSOLUTE WORST MOST DISGUSTING litter box ever) and several other weird models that uses alternatives to scooble litter. I went though a dozen scooble litter types from SamsClub to everything on Amazon but nothing truly clumps. I tried several alternatives to scoopable litters like litter made from grain, newspapers, etc....all over hyped. Tidy Cat changed its formula awhile back and now urine does not clump but falls apart stinking up the litter box or I would never have been on the search for a different litter box. I have to thank Tidy Cat for me finding this litter sifting box and using horse bed pine pellets.

I ordered this to be used with the Feline Arm and Hammer pine pellets. Looked easy enough but there was a learning curve for both myself and Echo Gabriel - my cat.Instructions on how to transition from straight clump litter to the pellets are easy to follow. But things went downhill from there.First my kitten was taking the pellets out and swatting them all around the house and sometimes would even be chewing on the pellets. That worried me because I was concerned about him developing an obstruction in his stomach or intestines.Second trying to sift the pellets was not easy at least for me. It made lots of dust, pellets would get stuck in the openings and inevitably litter would spill onto the floor. I was not a happy camper. However I was determined to make this work because it did the one thing I wanted the most and that was eliminate odors. And when I say eliminate odors I mean zero stench as in zip, zilch, nada, nothing.So I decided I needed to figure out a way to use the pine pellets so that I could do the sifting with minimal dust and not have to stop every nano second to clear out the pellets that were getting stuck and hindering the sifting process.Second I needed to find a way to discourage Echo from playing his game of swatting pellets all over the house, and then chewing them up.My solution was to use an old fashioned blender. I would take no more than a cup at a time of the whole pellets and alternate between grinding and grating . This allowed me to control the consistency of what was now becoming a sort of pine litter/sawdust.At first I only made enough to fill a 2 gallon container with this sawdust. I wanted to see if it would work and if Echo would accept the texture of this new litter.To use I fill the litter box with a layer of approximately 3 inches of sawdust and then add about a cup and a half of Fresh step clumping litter.Doing that significantly helps minimize dusting. But what I like the best is that it creates very loose sawdust clumps that I can quickly scoop out through your the day as needed without having to do the sifting every single time.So basically how I manage the litter box is that throughout the day I just scoop and replenish litter as needed. The litter box stays clean, and there is absolutely no oder because of how the pine sawdust absorbs and effectively neutralizes any odor.For sanitary reasons I sift and wash all basins out weekly. Then I just recycle back in the box the sifted litter replenishing as needed to ensure enough is in the box.I dump the entire mixture at every 4 weeks, sanitize the bins and replace with a completely new batch of my pine sawdust mixtureFollowing this method has been been very effective in neutralizing any and all odors.

These work as advertised and are excellent with kitties and small cats or households with one or two cats. We have seven indoor cats so we have had lots of experience with litter boxes. These definitely save on changing used litter constantly which is fairly expensive nowadays. We always sprinkle Arm & Hammer baking soda after each change just to freshen up the used litter. Works fantastic! I gave it a four only because of its smaller size than some people might require. Works great for us though.

I use this litter box for my rabbit. I simply removed the extra pan, put a puppy pad in the single black pan, then put the white sifting tray on top. The urine goes through the slats, and her feet stay very clean. I love it. Rabbit pans are small, and expensive. If you have a litter trained rabbit, or want to litter train, I highly recommend purchasing one. Great quality and very easy to use.

Pretty good idea. It’s easy for my 9yo to help me clean with it. Took her a few times to figure it out and remember what to do. My main problem is that it’s very small. Good for kittens, but not really any past about age 8 months. Our 9 month old never makes it inside the box. If he does, it’s always running and stuck down the side. The 5 month old it works perfect for. You do still need to scrap the pee clumps that are stuck to the bottom into a bad when pouring into sifter/pan. So it’s not hand scoop free by any means. But it does make it quicker to clean.