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Should You Buy a Litter Robot?

An Investment Your Cats Will Love

Jay Sizemore
5 min readMay 18, 2020

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I love my cats. My cats are my friends. They make me smile when I don’t feel like smiling, and their cuddling warmth is a strong anesthetic for insomnia. However, maintaining a clean home with cats for pets is a bit of a struggle, mostly due to the necessity of a litter box. Cats are great creatures to have around for a multitude of reasons, not the least of which is their self-efficiency and low maintenance resiliency. Even if occasionally you may wake up to the sound of a cat yacking up a furball or a piece of tinsel onto your sneakers. If only there was a way to keep these animals without having to deal with the annoyance of litter boxes. There isn’t, if you keep your pets indoors. But there is something that makes it bearable, The Litter Robot.

Any way you slice it, a litter box is just a disgusting fact of life when living with a cat in your abode. It brings with it an often unpleasant odor that no amount of air fresheners or scented candles will cover. That odor of feline urine that tends to permeate everything in your house after a while. Sometimes, this odor even clings to your clothes and you carry it around with you wherever you go. It doesn’t matter what type of litter you use, how often you replace it, or the many variations of the tray you choose to keep it in. Eventually, that odor just becomes…

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Jay Sizemore
Jay Sizemore

Written by Jay Sizemore

Provocative truth teller, author of APNEA & Ignore the Dead. Cat dad. Dog dad. Husband. Currently working from Portland, Oregon. Learn more at: Jaysizemore.com.

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