I feel like an idiot...

[telophase]

So I've owned one of those electric cat boxes, which had a rake that combs through the litter about 10 minutes after the cat uses it, for a little over two years now. While you can buy them now with timers so that it won't run during the night, mine's a little too old to have that. And it's in the bedroom because I refuse to feature a catbox in the living room and there's no other place for it. So in the middle of the night, when the cat does her thing, I am often awakened by the horrible SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE the motor makes, and in fact this morning I ended up getting up an hour before my normal wake-up time because there was no way I was getting back to sleep afterwards.

And now I feel like an idiot, because it took me two years to figure out that maybe I could try one of those timers you can set your lights on. Two years, folks, TWO YEARS.

I am only slightly mollified by the fact that none of the people I complained to over the past two years has ever suggested it to me.

Comments

[gweniveeve.livejournal.com]

I did not even realize that they had electric catboxes that did that!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yup! I got mine about two months after I got the cat, because my back, which was still painful at the time, couldn't take the bending and lifting necessary to take care of it. It was a most excellent solution, even though I have to open the container the stuff goes into every couple of days and rearrange it, because the cat has a singular preference for one side of the box, and thus it all builds up on that side in the container. XD

It also leads to the question, as you replace the container every week and a half or so: How can one little cat produce that much crap?

[lady-noremon.livejournal.com]

me have a manual little box.
My cat is obsessed with flinging the litter out of it just for fun and at random times of the day.

Also if I were your cat I'd be all "Holy cow! That thing is making noises because I pooed in it!"

but yeah very smart solution, maybe no one mentioned it because no one had thought of it ^^;