Increasing capacity of the PetSafe Simply Clean Litter box
Posted by Admin • Tuesday, March 10. 2015 • Category: Hardware Hacks
Although I wrote a somewhat harsh review of the PetSafe Simply Clean Litterbox on Amazon, I still felt that there was some potential to this thing. What I wanted most from it was a very low maintenance experience, and having to empty the waste bin every 3 days simply didn't seem to qualify. When I go on vacation (and please don't start a neglect flame war over this) I leave the cats alone - monitored by 4 cameras, auto feeder, 5 gallon water dispenser and many litter boxes. I don't want to bother relatives with the long drive to come over just to clean cat poo, and my cats do not take well to being moved. Or to strangers. Or to basically anything besides the quiet at-home life that is exactly like yesterday.
Therefore, what I'm looking for is a larger waste bin. The litterbox doesn't handle capacity problems well - it backs up, jamming up against the chute cover, making a mess and eventually just shutting itself off. What I need to do is to create a jam-resistant path for the waste to go, somewhat like this patent here. The idea is good but it seems a bit too complex for my taste, and of course it is intended for a rectangular raking box like the LitterMaid. So, I chose to do the simplest and most reliable thing I could think of.
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