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By
HereComesARegular
, June 26, 2013

The perfect choice for your any-day-now call to stand yourself up, hydrate, strap on some lumbar support, and speak rationally for a rational cause. Be prepared for greatness. Excellent support for your arches and morale. Not the only footwear choice for defending and representing, but their power to distract (Pink? Red??) is amusing. You might welcome the distraction when you find yourself tediously explaining facts or playing along with the student council or the neighborhood association’s rigged games.

3.3 out of 5 stars

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CatGenie—Self-Washing, Self-Flushing Cat Box

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     B000MKHQG4

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Never touch cat litter again. The new and unique CatGenie—Self-Washing, Self-Flushing Cat Box grants the cat lover’s wish to never scoop, touch, buy, or change cat litter again. Instead of traditional litter, the high-tech CatGenie uses permanent Washable Granules that never need changing. For cats, CatGenie is just like using a clean litter box. The Washable Granules satisfy your cat’s need to dig and cover. When your cat goes, liquids drain through the Granules, which don’t clump or create waste. Touch a button or preset the timer to start the wash cycle. The solid waste is automatically scooped, liquefied, and flushed down the drain. Using water and the veterinarian-approved SaniSolution, the CatGenie scours and sanitizes the Granules and Cat Box interior to eliminate germs and odors. A built-in dryer blows hot air over the Granules to dry them for your cat’s comfort. The CatGenie acts like a cat box, washes and dries like an appliance, and flushes waste out of the home like a toilet. A one-time, DIY connection to a cold-water supply line from a sink, toilet, or laundry, and you’re set. T-adapters for laundry or bath are supplied. CatGenie is the only automatic cat box that’s just like your cat, completely self-washing.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

Poo Stinks

By
wwiggins
, May 12, 2009

I have had my unit for a little over a month now. I love it because I don’t have to scoop. My wife hates it because it now resides in our laundry room. I was under the impression that it sensed somehow that the box had been used and then scooped it immediately, like the LitterMaid box does with motion sensors. Nope…the cat can use it, and “it” will sit there until a predetermined time. That depends on the setting, 1, 2, 3, or 4 times a day. I think this is a ploy to sell the SaniSolution, because to keep the smell down the user is forced to run it four times a day automatically and then to start it manually every time the cat creates the offensive smelling poo. Come on, CatGenie, make it motion sensing so the thing doesn’t have to scoop unnecessarily and use up so much solution, and so my wife doesn’t have to smell it and complain once again about the expensive smelly cat box I wasted the money on. Like I said, a love-hate relationship with CatGenie. I wish I could tie a motion sensor on it. Also it does bake poo. Not all the time, but wow, what a smell. IN OUR LAUNDRY ROOM. Do I smell like poo?

32 of 44 people found the following review helpful

CONFOUNDED CATGENIE! I’M IN ITS SPELL!

By
Beth Phillips
, December 5, 2007

Day 1: IT’S HERE! *jumping up and down* Now how do I put it together?

Day 2: My wonderful friend Paul is coming over to hook it up! He is an electrician and a plumber—I’m IN!! *jumping up and down* He is SUCH a good friend!!!

Day 3: Aaaahhh, bliss…I love the CatGenie. It is so cool to turn it on and watch all the scooping and rinsing, and blowdrying…aaahhh…I hope the cats get in it soon. I ran it a couple of time “just in case” they had peed in it, ’cause I couldn’t tell.

Day 4: I am so excited! There is a big cat poop in the CatGenie! Oh, boy! I get to watch it REALLY work!! OK, here comes the big, flat Genie hand; it is gonna scoop the poo as the bowl is merrily whirling around…yes…uuuhhh. It just SMASHED the poo because the hand and the bowl were not in sync…ick. Now the Genie hand is coming up to deposit the “treasure” but as it goes up the little row of teeth, shaking the loose litter out, the pieces of poo fall off too…I can’t look. I am going back in the kitchen to find a glass of wine. Wine, yes, that will make me feel better…yes.

Day 5: My new kitten has made another deposit. Did rats get in here, too? What are those little brown pellets? Ohhhh…I see…leftover nuggets from yesterday. Well, the next wash will take care of them, I am sure. Here comes Chai. He sniffs the bowl carefully…jumps in…yowls in annoyance…pisses like a racehorse on a flat rock, then SPRINGS out of the box, scattering the “litter” everywhere. I am not impressed. But, I turn it on, and walk away, and all is well until…what’s that beeping noise?? Three beeps. What do three beeps mean? Luckily, I find the card that says, “Don’t freak at the beep.” So I call tech support. Wine. I need to get a glass real quick…yes…that will help. Tech support: “What’s the serial number on your processing unit?”

I swallow another sip of wine and say, “OK, it’s 666…” Then I laugh, and say, “AHA! THAT explains it!!!! The unit is POSSESSED!” The crickets chirp…swallowing another mouthful, I say carefully, “Hello??”

They instruct me that I now have to take the unit apart. These b****** have NO sense of humor…OOkaaaaayyy…I manage that. Lo and behold, there is a baby sock in the impeller. Damn cats and their
sense of revengeful humor for forcing them into a clean fresh box every time! CatGenie simply yawns and goes back to its regular mode. I finish the bottle of wine.

Day 5: All is well!

Day 6: I LOVE this thing!!!!

Day 7: Why is the bowl full of water??? Why is there cat crap in my dining room? Grabbing my ever-resourceful bottle of Pinot Grigio, I head back to the CatGenie and wash its butt like it has never been washed. I find no plug, no clog; all parts appear to be working. There is NOTHING wrong. Error beeps continue. Chewing on the cork of the wine bottle in mad frustration, I unplug the unit and go to Lowe’s and buy a cat door. The cats are now going outside in the courtyard to do their “thing,” and I am happy. (I live on a big horse farm waaaay away from any road).

Fast forward to day 190: It is getting cold. The cats do not want to go outside to do their “thing” anymore. They are more than happy to make their “deposits” on the dining room floor. Again. Aaargh.

Day 191: I hook up the CatGenie, and I hold my breath…it “seems” to be working. It runs through a cycle, finishes, then the 3 beeps begin again. Tearing open my newly purchased case of wine, I uncork a bottle, put a dispenser top on the darn thing, and head to the laundry room with the phone to my ear, ready to rumble. Operator: “What’s your serial number, please?”