Feline Maintenance Meets Mankind's Ingenuity

11/3/08


I am happy to announce that today the cats have taken to their new litter... uhm... robot thing. I was concerned, particularly reading the instructions, when I learned there are all sorts of things cats do with this contraption, including, but not limited to: Sticking their heads in the hole but still deficating outside the unit, triggering the unit non stop out of morbid curiosity, Jumping on top of the unit mid spin, Scooping litter out of the pod onto the once clean floor (shit-chunks included), using the new pile of outside litter as a temprorary litter box, and so on...

Fortunately, they have done none of these things... yet.

I can only imagine these warnings were tabulated and printed into future refined owners manuals to include all the things previous customers complained about. I am surprised, and a little relieved, not to have found any mentioning of beheading, dismemberment, electrocution, flooding, or speed/sensor malfunction that may result in a sort of 'ride' for the occupant.

Was this worth the $$?

Hell yeah! No smell, self cleaning, easy to maintain, and though you can't tell from the angles I shot the apartment in previous posted pics, it really matches the decor.

Biggles really likes it too - every time it spins up to clean itself, he drops whatever he is doing, I mean, whatever he is doing (licking the boys, terrorizing Ariel, being brushed by me, slumbering under the bed covers), to rush over and watch the robo-2000 in action. It's a 20 second spin cycle of ground breaking technology in action, a symphony of speed and precision only further sweetened by the melodic hum of the electronic motors, creating an eye candy sensation of immense propor....

Who am I kidding. It's a bore. But that doesn't stop him from rushing over to watch it time after time. At least it's going off with less frequency now that Ariel as stopped chickening out at the last second. I swear B has lost 5 lbs.