This makes the entire litter box useless. Money down the drain
931753
The piece that is supposed to hold the scooper in does not close. This makes the entire litter box useless. Money down the drain.
3359446
Works well for zero dust and clumping but does not do anything for smell (odor) so the smell resonating from the box is awful and not worth the benefit of dust free, which is the only reason I tried it. I would also not recommend you ever flushing this litter down the toilet. The clumps it makes of urine are huge balls and rock hard so I feel that most likely would clog your sewer lines...
685374
If I could give half a star I would! This "elite" litterbox is no better than the old cardboard boxes I used as a kid! I still have to scoop the "stuff" out of this "elite" box.  I've had it for less than a year and I'm so fed up! Today I came home and the scoop-thing was stuck in the middle of the box so my cats had to squeeze in the back to use it.  I'm going back to the non-elite littermaid with the stationary forks. I can't believe how much money I wasted!
3463206
I would rate this 0 if that choice was available. I tried this product this summer when they offered full-cost (sans tax) rebate. My 9 year old cat, who's NEVER had a problem urinating in his litter box suddenly stopped using it (and used my kitchen cabinet instead!). Luckily, I caught him the 2nd day. I was so ?$#* I called World's Worst Cat Litter 800 number to complain. The CS rep told me I should have started using their product by slowly adding small amounts to my old litter.

Gee, I must have missed reading that on the bag.

Instead of donating the litter to the local shelter I threw it out. Free isn't worth the smell of cat urine!

BTW: the World's Worst Litter isn't cheap. I've had no problems using the cheap litter from the local big-box store.

Buyer Beware!
1199846
They look nice and are a good idea and all, but have had literally zero effect on the area I've placed literally all of them in. The litter box area odors have been a struggle to control. At this point I'm trying anything, so I bought these. complete waste of money, wish I could send them back for a refund, but it's too late for that I'm sure.

Don't get these, waste of money, they do nothing at all to control odors.
3232450
The cat litter tray has to be purchased separately and it is really horrible.  The cat urine can and does get between the litter bowl and the exterior 'box and it stinks and you can't get rid of it without washing the entire unit.
3648044
I tried this out in one of the litter boxes. Then both cats started to use *only* that litter box. Silly cats.
2743130
The first couple of months that I owned the Cat Genie, it was a dream come true. I absolutely HATE litter boxes but love my cat, so the premise of the Cat Genie was absolutely perfect. It was easy to hook up, as promised, and my cat had no problem adjusting to it. I had two solid months of litter-free living.

THEN, about two and a half months after I started using it, I came home to hear the Cat Genie beeping sound that would soon trigger a Pavlovian reaction in me to pound the walls and cry in frustration. When, not if, the hopper gets clogged, the device stops working and the water will not drain out of the bowl. This leaves your cat with two choices - either hold it until you come home OR find an alternate place to urinate or defecate. The best "alternate place" my cat found was a potted plant. The worst was $[...] worth of bedding.

I was not pleased to learn that the way to get the beeps to stop was to un-clog the  hopper itself, meaning I needed to reach into murky, smelly feces water and pull out the part of the device where the poop, hair and carpet threads get stuck. I am about to gag just thinking about it. Afterwards, I used lysol cleaner with bleach to clean up the cat genie, the surrounding areas and hoped that the fumes would purify my sinuses of the smelly poop water I inhaled while my arm was up to my elbow in brown, mushy liquid bilge.

If this device could be improved to avoid clogs, it would be the best pet invention ever. Meanwhile, I'll apply to work at the sanitation department before I'll purchase a Cat Genie again because at least that way I'd make money, not lose $[...] on the cat genie, $25 per replacement cartridge I bought plus the cost of cleaning & replacing the soiled items that my poor cat made use of when he elected not to stand in cold poop water while being beeped at by the Cat Genie.
2398002
This is a horrible invention. Once tent is assembled and you slide the litter box inside you do not have any access to the controls. Refilling the litter box is going to be a huge hassle. You would have to keep sliding the whole litter box out and that is a huge pain to do. The tent is not tall so if you have a big cat they may not want to go inside because of the lack of head room. Don't bother trying to unzip the tent it is not easy to re-zip without the fear of damaging it. Honestly this product is not worth the trouble. I would recommend the tent that goes on top of the box rather than this one.
867749
REDACTED FROM BELOW. So. This concept is great. And it *does* work. HOWEVER, the execution is pathetic. The clips barely work. The side with the tray doesn't have clips at all and a huge mess of litter falls out every time. The tray has nothing holding it straight in place inside, so when you roll it (particularly back in order to get the clean litter back to the potty-area) it slides around and some bits of lovely mess this is supposed to catch fall out. The hole in the front for the tray is also a ghetto cut-out to fit the tray. The clips around the outside edge holding it together is the worst part. It *does* work. Just extremely poorly.

Concept: 5 stars. Execution: 1 star. This is clearly a chinese product, and I'm determined to hunt down a 3D printer and designer in order to make a better one of these if I can't find an affordable alternative so I can return this hunk of s*** plastic. Good riddance.

PREVIOUSLY: (5 stars) Works EXACTLY as advertised! Flip, hit the bottom of bit (if you have a bottom scraper like I do), flip back, settle the litter, and dump. SO. FREAKING. EASY. The lid (we had an open box before) REALLY helps contain the smell too. And now my litterbox-adverse boyfriend can empty the litter box too since it's not so nitty-gritty. Premium [read: expensive] clumping litter isn't necessary, but not all brands are created equal either. I highly recommend Target's brad: Boots & Barkley. Very fine, dust free, and clumps great. $7 for 20 lbs (in NH).
2578300
The litter box technically works.  But there are a number of things to keep in mind, that for me make this no longer a viable option:
1) with more than one cat, this litter trays need to be changed every 9-10 days.  This means spending (based on current cost) ~$40/ month!  that is far too much for litter!!
2) The crystal litter does not control order. By 1 week in, the smell is pretty bad.
3) The crystal litter is tracked all over the house!  this is worse than any other litter I've ever used.  I have to vacuum up litter from everywhere weekly, and find myself (2 days later) stepping on newly tracked litter on the other side of the house.
4) The litter does not stay in the tray well.  When changing out the tray, due to the rake's action of pushing the litter towards the back, I wind up with (consistently) litter on the floor behind they unit, instead of a quick-easy clean-up of the tray.  This somewhat defeats the purpose of a quick, easy, clean litter system!  I have found that if i put all of the crystals in the tray when changing the tray, I get more on the floor!  So instead I would put about 75% in at first, and the remaining 5 days later.  By then, you can see how little this litter holds up after multiple days' use.
5)  If your cat pees in the same place, or towards the edge of the tray, you have to move the crystals around to increase their use.  Well, at this point, wouldn't it be just as easy to scoop the litter?

I originally purchased this because i was having hip surgery and wouldn't be able to bend down.  I suppose it helped with that.  But between the cost of the system, the fact that it doesn't hold up for much longer than a week, and the fact that I can bend down again, I'm going back to the Breeze system (which is far less expensive and feels like less work!).  Maybe I will set it up when i go on vacation, but if I bought many more of those trays, I might as well have saved the money to get one of those $500 litter robot things!!
2518088
The hole at the top of this mat renders it pretty pointless and useless. The plastic is too thick to push under my cat's washroom, so it has to remain pushed up against the edge of it, and the litter just falls through the little hole - why is it there?! Pointless, waste of money, need to find a different one that works better, with no holes, that can be pushed just underneath the kitty litter furniture piece.
284920
If your cat urinates on the side where the sifting grid is, then the litter will clump permanently into the grid and not come out. If you make sure there is  no litter on the "wrong" side of the grid,  then the pool of urine pours out when you roll the litter box over as instructed. I suppose that IF my cat had used the other side of the box then this would have worked just as designed but that is a very big IF to base the whole concept on. Currently using it without grid and drawer as an ordinary litter pan. D- for engineering and design. I only bought this because my cat is getting too old to comfortably use a top-entry litter box and I am really annoyed at how bad the design is and that I spent over $40 for something that does not work. And I certainly can't return a USED litter box !
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984896
First off you have to use World's Best cat litter with this unit to get it to work at all. But if you try to put litter in it even up to the upper fill line when the rake scoops waste products it ends up scooping half the litter in to the waste receptical too. There are two problems with that, one you are wasting a lot of really expensive cat litter, and two you have to change the waste receptical more frequantly because it's full of clean cat litter and hardly any poop.

The only good thing is that it does scoop itself. But it does get pretty dirty and any waste that get by the rake at scoop time gets pushed back up behind the rake and stuck there so it can really start to stick. The unit also seems to get very dirty and a big pain in the butt to clean, there are so many peices you have to take apart and move around and clean it just ends up taking forever.

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3837054
Worst litter box I have ever owned.  I have been a cat owner for over 40 years.. this box was terrible.  The thing that I really hated about the box was: the bottom of the box, it is NOT flat.  Look  at the pictures.. there is a large groove along the entire inside of the box... this makes it Very difficult to get the urine clumps out( assuming you are using a clumping litter). The urine balls will mold to these grooves and make a mess when trying to remove them.  Trust me, this will make a huge difference with clumping litter.  Since this box is fairly shallow..... you cannot fill box full enough to keep your cat from digging to the bottom, peeing then covering it up.  I hated this box so much I tossed it as soon as I purchased a different one.  Great idea.. side shields and all.. horrible design for the bottom!
3116410
Who I am:  A man who married a cat-loving woman.  I was indifferent about cats but have become very attached to them.  My wife and I used to share the responsibility of cleaning the litter box and its surrounding area but after my wife got pregnant that responsibility somehow permanently fell on my shoulders alone.  This is a task that I despise.  I have no affiliation or personal interest in this company.

Who my cats are: 2 female cats that we adopted 4 and 9 years ago.  If there is such a thing as cat etiquette that involves neatly using the litter box--specifically, keeping their urine inside the litter box rather than around it--no one (or cat) ever told them about this.  They have had several litter boxes that were ultimately failures at keeping their litter and their urine inside and not around them.

Why am I writing my one and only review on Amazon:  I have to give credit where it is due.  I have had two of these litterboxes for about 6 weeks now.  I think this is a fair enough trial to write a review.  It is clear that this is an ingenious product entirely because of its simplicity.  I would say there is about 90% less litter on the floor surrounding the boxes and 100% less leaked urine.  Because of this, my time cleaning the litterboxes is significantly reduced.  The odor has improved considerably as well.  I have not purchased the liners that are suggested.  I find that heavy-duty trash bags work great as long as you don't mind them folded over the sides of the box.

Thanks, Clevercat!
4932997
Yuck! I have been using this "system" for a few days now (for ONE kitten) and I will tell you, the cheapest bag of litter you can find at Walmart will control odor 100X better than this garbage. The urine pads seem to work fine but my entire room smells like cat feces despite me cleaning the box twice a day. If you don't scoop it as soon as the cat goes #2, it will smell up your house. This thing is going into the dumpster asap and I deeply regret that I wasted 22.00 on it - luckily I had a coupon.