8 Best Automatic Litter Boxes (2025), Tested and Reviewed

Others We Tested

Els Pet Orbitie for $269: This is 1 of the slightest costly afloat enclosed automatic litter boxes (there’s astir ever a “coupon” for $100 disconnected the database terms of $369). It functions overmuch similar the much costly models, with an interior 65-liter-capacity orb that rotates and catches clumps with a integrative grate, depositing them into a bag-lined container below. The opening is simply a generous 12 by 12 inches—plenty large capable for my 2 7-year-old cats, who took to it astir instantly contempt ne'er having seen thing but a accepted litter box. The accompanying Orbitie app doesn’t connection an extended magnitude of information; it tells the idiosyncratic the measurement of litter and what measurement of the cleaning signifier the container is presently in, arsenic good arsenic however galore times the container has been utilized and astatine what times. The archetypal trial portion I received was faulty—it sent aggregate phantom alerts to the app, letting maine cognize it had cleaned itself arsenic galore arsenic 36 times a day, which I knew for a information was not true. The replacement unit, however, works conscionable arsenic intended, though the bin beneath fills up accelerated (two to 3 days with my 2 cats), and it occasionally needs to beryllium disassembled and cleaned, arsenic tiny pieces of feline litter person a inclination to get successful the gears beneath the orb (and marque a large grinding noise). However, this isn’t an antithetic occurrence adjacent with pricier boxes. Online reviews panned an earlier mentation of this box, but Orbitie says this is an improved version. Thankfully, similar the bigger brands, Orbitie besides offers a 90-day money-back warrant if you’re connected the fence.

Not Recommended

PetSnowy Snow+ Self-Cleaning Litter Box for $680: This container looks similar thing from Kubrick’s visions of abstraction travel, oregon if Eames started making integrative litter boxes. It takes up rather a spot of horizontal level space, truthful it whitethorn not beryllium perfect for those successful cramped apartments looking to conserve space. Unlike each others connected this list, this globe is closed during cleaning, which could origin wounded if the instrumentality malfunctioned and didn’t consciousness a cat. The container besides doesn’t archer you erstwhile the litter’s debased oregon needs to beryllium refilled. My cats had a truly hard clip utilizing it—they conscionable couldn’t recognize that it was a litter box. Older cats could person a pugnacious clip jumping into it, and the smaller opening could beryllium a occupation if you person bigger cats. It mightiness beryllium large for idiosyncratic who wants to support things tidy—it’s highly clean, smells good, and hugely reduces litter tracking. However, we conscionable can't urge the container since the opening closes during cleaning, which is not safe.

The Pet Zone Smart Scoop for $166: This is astir apt the slightest “smart” automatic litter container we've tested—it's a emblematic rectangular integrative container with an automatic limb that acts arsenic a rake and scoops the clumped (soiled) litter into a tiny bin connected the different side. Once the feline leaves, it begins a 15-minute countdown and the rake slides implicit the magnitude of the box, (ideally) scooping up the discarded and lifting it into the receptacle. You’re lone allowed to capable the litter container with astir an inch and a fractional of litter, which my cats didn’t similar (they similar a fewer inches to truly hide it). The rake doesn’t halt erstwhile it's successful the cleaning cycle—even if thing jumps in, which is perchance dangerous. My cats thin to pee connected the broadside of the litter box, which, due to the fact that of the rake’s placement, means it misses an inch connected either side—I inactive had to scrape the caked-on litter from the edges. The rhythm timing can’t beryllium adjusted, truthful that the litter didn’t person clip to clump wholly and the rake would instantly interruption it down into smaller clumps that would past beryllium missed due to the fact that they were excessively small. For me, the hassle's not worthy it, and I’d alternatively conscionable scoop it myself.

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