I use, and recommend, the Litter Robot. It’s expensive but I still recommend it. After a cat goes inside, it counts out 7 minutes and then cleans the litter. It does this by rotating the big ball containing the litter, sifting the litter through a screen and into a hollow wall inside the ball. Anything that doesn’t fit through the screen stays inside the ball and then drops through a trap door into a catch bin; then the ball rotates the other way and puts the litter back where it goes.
Our cats love to watch it operate. Some cats are scared of it but ours love it. And you have much less work to do: change out the bag inside the catch bin (you can use ordinary kitchen trash can bags, or buy special ones if you like from Litter Robot) about once a week, and remove the ball and wash it maybe every six months. There’s a charcoal filter to replace every year or so.
It has several safety features. If a cat is inside, it won’t operate. If it detects any interference with the operation of the ball, it will cease operation of the ball. I trust it not to hurt our cats. I also trust it not to make a bigger mess when trying to clean itself… I’ve read some reviews of other products that made me glad I didn’t buy them.
I’m sure that our cats like having clean litter all the time. It’s cleaned after each use!
If you have multiple cats you should consider buying more than one. We have gotten by with just one for our two cats, but we are buying a second one because the cats aren’t getting any younger and we want them to have one on each floor of the house.
I gain no benefit from shilling this product, I am just a satisfied owner.
I once had a different one, the type with a rake and a lidded receptacle. I bought it because
I lived in a small house and the smell…
But because of the lack of room, the only place I could put it was in a hall closet outside of
my bedroom. The problem was that my cat liked to sleep in my ear, so to speak.
I would wake up at 0300 to the sound of the motor running, with my cat next to my head.
With her paw on my lips.
“Yeah, I know where that paw was five minutes ago… Go away!”
I got rid of it. There are some things a man just doesn’t want to know.
When we got our kitten my wife had me order a similar automatic litter box.It seems th be working just fine. Right now it’s in the laundry room next to the kitchen. It came with one air filter and a couple of bags so I ordered more of both. Thinking of moving it to our 2nd bath as it is quite a bit larger than a regular litter box and I thing it takes up too much room. Going to start lobbying with the boss to move it today. We’ll see.
I’ve never bothered with the fancy electronic crap box. My litter box is set up in my bathroom, right in front of the toilet. When I drop a deuce, I lean forward and clean the box as the same time. Used litter goes in the old litter container (box, bag) so I’m not even using extra garbage bags to do it.
And aren’t these the dame doucheknuckles that got kicked out of their school for being themselves and had to go to the remedial one? If so, I’m surprised they let them in the bar at all.
Mr Stanley, sorry but you are not looking at the problem from an energy management standpoint. A .5mm grain of sand weighing in at a hefty 50 MICROgrams is indeed not going to hurt you badly if it hits you at a slow speed. However, a grain of sand moving at a significant percentage of lightspeed is a WHOLE NOTHER/b> animal all together. An itty bitty sand grain moving at 1% of light speed has the energy equivalent to ONE POUND of TNT! A 10lb bucket of sand at 1% of C has the equivalent energy of 48 TONS of TNT! Just imagine the equivalent energy of a pound of TNT being expended on a section of hull metal HALF A MILLIMETER across! And just think of all that sand grain’s itty bitty buddies queued up right behind it! I figure a 10 lb bucket of sand would be, what, 6″ across? Now imagine all those little sand grains, each with the equivalent of a pound of TNT impacting the hull of a spacecraft. Getting the picture now? I’ve alwaysbeen an airplane and space nut. I have done A LOT of research on space travel. Ever since I read Niven and Pournelle’s “Footfall” I’ve been interested in kinetic energy weapons (KEWs) and have spent a.lot of time thinking about them. Trust me on this, if you’re going to go to all the trouble to accellerate something to.a significant fraction of C, you want to be sure that the lion’s share of the kinetic energy your projectile is carrying is transferred to the target. BTW, a 10 lb bucket of sand moving at 1% of light speed has the equivalent energy of 48 TONS OF TNT! As someone suggested a few days back, a series of annular grav emitters triggered in sequence would be the functional equivalent of a coil gun/gauss gun. Or, alternatively, using the handy-dandy grav based power supplies available in the TGW universe, you could easily make a for-real by jingo coil gun to accelerate your ferrometal bucket of sand to fractional C muzzle velocities. Don’t know about you but I would not want to be on the receiving end of the equivalent of a pound of TNT concentrated into an area .5mm across!
“at 50% the speed of light, even iron will fuse” (I knew what you meant)
Not sure where you’re going there. Merely travelling at .5C won’t, in and of itself produce any effects other than your over all length shrinking by about 13% while your mass and time dilating about 15%. But your kinetic energy will be significant. A .33g BB moving at 320m/sec has a kinetic energy of roughly 17 joules (3.4g of TNT). The same BB moving at .1% of C has kinetic energy equal to 7,400 TONS of TNT! Yes that WOULD liquify the BB all right! The same BB moving at .5C.would be carrying the energy equivalent of almost a megaton of TNT! Not sure how someone might go about accelerating a BB to .5C but I, for one, would not want to be anywhere near where it impacted. At .5C a grain of sand would have the kinetic energy of 1.4 kilotons of TNT. A 10lb bucket of sand moving at 1% of 1%C would have energy equivalent to 510 TONS of TNT! Not 100% certain that would destroy the target but any occupants would for sure know somebody had knocked!
The way I figure it is this. It doesn’t take just a whole hell of a lot of energy to melt a 50MICROgram grain of sand so immediately upon impact the sand (and the bucket carrying it) would liquify. But that would only use a tiny part of the total energy in the projectile. Now you would have a 10lb blob of molten mostly silicon dioxide – still travelling at a significant velocity of C – trying its damnedest to punch a hole in your vehicle. Sandblasting? Not hardly!
Yup. Main question left is who broke his arm, Yumi, Angel or Cherry? My bet is Cherry, probably by seeing to it his own momentum did the actual breaking.
Imagined conversation between Cherry and Yumi:
“Heads up, Cherry. The troublemakers.”
“I saw them. So did Angel.”
“Lookit the newby with them. Whaddya think? Recruit or patsy?”
…
“Patsy.”
“I don’t need your hearing to see that. They just handed him something, probably money, and are sending him over here.”
“Let’s give them what they deserve, not what they’re asking for.”
“Oh, they’re ASKING for it…”
Football jocks… *sigh* they’re not all like that, but there’s enough of them that it’s a trope…
The problem with.”Kitty Litter” is, almost no o e wants to clean up the mess…
As the house slave to a troop of (now 4) felines, I agree. Cleaning up kitty litter is a pain and a stink.
I use, and recommend, the Litter Robot. It’s expensive but I still recommend it. After a cat goes inside, it counts out 7 minutes and then cleans the litter. It does this by rotating the big ball containing the litter, sifting the litter through a screen and into a hollow wall inside the ball. Anything that doesn’t fit through the screen stays inside the ball and then drops through a trap door into a catch bin; then the ball rotates the other way and puts the litter back where it goes.
Our cats love to watch it operate. Some cats are scared of it but ours love it. And you have much less work to do: change out the bag inside the catch bin (you can use ordinary kitchen trash can bags, or buy special ones if you like from Litter Robot) about once a week, and remove the ball and wash it maybe every six months. There’s a charcoal filter to replace every year or so.
It has several safety features. If a cat is inside, it won’t operate. If it detects any interference with the operation of the ball, it will cease operation of the ball. I trust it not to hurt our cats. I also trust it not to make a bigger mess when trying to clean itself… I’ve read some reviews of other products that made me glad I didn’t buy them.
I’m sure that our cats like having clean litter all the time. It’s cleaned after each use!
If you have multiple cats you should consider buying more than one. We have gotten by with just one for our two cats, but we are buying a second one because the cats aren’t getting any younger and we want them to have one on each floor of the house.
I gain no benefit from shilling this product, I am just a satisfied owner.
I once had a different one, the type with a rake and a lidded receptacle. I bought it because
I lived in a small house and the smell…
But because of the lack of room, the only place I could put it was in a hall closet outside of
my bedroom. The problem was that my cat liked to sleep in my ear, so to speak.
I would wake up at 0300 to the sound of the motor running, with my cat next to my head.
With her paw on my lips.
“Yeah, I know where that paw was five minutes ago… Go away!”
I got rid of it. There are some things a man just doesn’t want to know.
When we got our kitten my wife had me order a similar automatic litter box.It seems th be working just fine. Right now it’s in the laundry room next to the kitchen. It came with one air filter and a couple of bags so I ordered more of both. Thinking of moving it to our 2nd bath as it is quite a bit larger than a regular litter box and I thing it takes up too much room. Going to start lobbying with the boss to move it today. We’ll see.
I’ve never bothered with the fancy electronic crap box. My litter box is set up in my bathroom, right in front of the toilet. When I drop a deuce, I lean forward and clean the box as the same time. Used litter goes in the old litter container (box, bag) so I’m not even using extra garbage bags to do it.
And aren’t these the dame doucheknuckles that got kicked out of their school for being themselves and had to go to the remedial one? If so, I’m surprised they let them in the bar at all.
Made you an account, check your email for the password.
And no, these four all go to University.
Mr Stanley, sorry but you are not looking at the problem from an energy management standpoint. A .5mm grain of sand weighing in at a hefty 50 MICROgrams is indeed not going to hurt you badly if it hits you at a slow speed. However, a grain of sand moving at a significant percentage of lightspeed is a WHOLE NOTHER/b> animal all together. An itty bitty sand grain moving at 1% of light speed has the energy equivalent to ONE POUND of TNT! A 10lb bucket of sand at 1% of C has the equivalent energy of 48 TONS of TNT! Just imagine the equivalent energy of a pound of TNT being expended on a section of hull metal HALF A MILLIMETER across! And just think of all that sand grain’s itty bitty buddies queued up right behind it! I figure a 10 lb bucket of sand would be, what, 6″ across? Now imagine all those little sand grains, each with the equivalent of a pound of TNT impacting the hull of a spacecraft. Getting the picture now? I’ve alwaysbeen an airplane and space nut. I have done A LOT of research on space travel. Ever since I read Niven and Pournelle’s “Footfall” I’ve been interested in kinetic energy weapons (KEWs) and have spent a.lot of time thinking about them. Trust me on this, if you’re going to go to all the trouble to accellerate something to.a significant fraction of C, you want to be sure that the lion’s share of the kinetic energy your projectile is carrying is transferred to the target. BTW, a 10 lb bucket of sand moving at 1% of light speed has the equivalent energy of 48 TONS OF TNT! As someone suggested a few days back, a series of annular grav emitters triggered in sequence would be the functional equivalent of a coil gun/gauss gun. Or, alternatively, using the handy-dandy grav based power supplies available in the TGW universe, you could easily make a for-real by jingo coil gun to accelerate your ferrometal bucket of sand to fractional C muzzle velocities. Don’t know about you but I would not want to be on the receiving end of the equivalent of a pound of TNT concentrated into an area .5mm across!
Remember Bill, at 50% the speed of life but, even iron will fuse…
The velocity of light. I’m very much no longer enamored of autocorrect. Maybe I should go back to using a PC to post emails and messages?
“at 50% the speed of light, even iron will fuse” (I knew what you meant)
Not sure where you’re going there. Merely travelling at .5C won’t, in and of itself produce any effects other than your over all length shrinking by about 13% while your mass and time dilating about 15%. But your kinetic energy will be significant. A .33g BB moving at 320m/sec has a kinetic energy of roughly 17 joules (3.4g of TNT). The same BB moving at .1% of C has kinetic energy equal to 7,400 TONS of TNT! Yes that WOULD liquify the BB all right! The same BB moving at .5C.would be carrying the energy equivalent of almost a megaton of TNT! Not sure how someone might go about accelerating a BB to .5C but I, for one, would not want to be anywhere near where it impacted. At .5C a grain of sand would have the kinetic energy of 1.4 kilotons of TNT. A 10lb bucket of sand moving at 1% of 1%C would have energy equivalent to 510 TONS of TNT! Not 100% certain that would destroy the target but any occupants would for sure know somebody had knocked!
The way I figure it is this. It doesn’t take just a whole hell of a lot of energy to melt a 50MICROgram grain of sand so immediately upon impact the sand (and the bucket carrying it) would liquify. But that would only use a tiny part of the total energy in the projectile. Now you would have a 10lb blob of molten mostly silicon dioxide – still travelling at a significant velocity of C – trying its damnedest to punch a hole in your vehicle. Sandblasting? Not hardly!
Ahhhh, now we’re starting to get the back story on Jami and Cherry.
Yup. Main question left is who broke his arm, Yumi, Angel or Cherry? My bet is Cherry, probably by seeing to it his own momentum did the actual breaking.
Imagined conversation between Cherry and Yumi:
“Heads up, Cherry. The troublemakers.”
“I saw them. So did Angel.”
“Lookit the newby with them. Whaddya think? Recruit or patsy?”
…
“Patsy.”
“I don’t need your hearing to see that. They just handed him something, probably money, and are sending him over here.”
“Let’s give them what they deserve, not what they’re asking for.”
“Oh, they’re ASKING for it…”
I was originally thinking that Mr Jock most likely broke his arm at a football game.
Buuuuuut……on closer re-reading, you may be right.
It occurs to me that Cherry may actually work for Angel, basically as predator bait to keep female patrons safer.
As I understood their shots had an impact velocity of over 1% c … at that speed if a a tiny pebble would hit them like major nuke.
I tried to do the math … it’s probably around 0.1 kT TNT per projectile so make that a “small nuke”.