Cat Genie

In working with solutions for having a cat with diabetes, I bought a Cat Genie. It looked so great and idyllic. We set it up in a washroom. I tried to entice my cats to it. They each used it a couple times, but they were more used to conventional cat litter and they remained with that.

Then, we got a kitten. Just like with children and technology, the kitten got the idea right away. We used the cat genie for maybe four weeks with him. What we did not expect was that the other three cats would take the little guy and teach him where and how to use the other litter. We noticed there was less use in the cat toilet and eventually he stopped altogether.

That meant I was disappointed and my Cat Genie concept never did end up as a full solution for us. We left its plumbing in place and the machine dripped fluid onto our floor. I was not happy with that so we removed it. It is now "stuff" sitting in the basement. Now that we have a new cat, I would be interested in trying it again. However, the bigs cats have already got to him and have been converting him from his kitty box to the cat box. On one hand this is good because we don't have to maintain the various boxes. We keep the baby trainer up close to our room.

Lucius loves to watch CatDad clean the box. He attacks the scoop. He catches and leaps on the scoop wherever it moves in the dirt. He pulls the poop back into the box. Really, he exclaims, "I put all that work into burying it. Why on earth do you dig it out?" He follows Dad around till he exits the bag outside. The routines are settling in. Lucius does make cleaning the litter fun. He reminds me of a two year old potty training.