Scooping and processing time: I soiled each litter box with our stand-ins for cat pee and poop (¼ cup of water and halfway-melted chocolate, respectively) and assessed how well and how quickly the litter box scooped out the mess.“I usually recommend against automatic litter boxes because if anything goes wrong with them, it can scare the bejesus out of them and they’re not going to want to use it ever again,” said Mary Molloy, ASPCA animal behavior counselor and owner of pet-training company Nirvana Tails in New York City. While it was quieter than other models, some experts said they believed that the raking motion or any mechanical sound could deter some cats. The PetSafe ScoopFree Ultra was one of the quietest machines we tested, measuring about 50 decibels (around the volume of a household conversation) when scooping away waste. And it got even louder when it scooped, with the arm making a banging noise as it shook off loose litter granules from the clumped waste. The CatGenie was the loudest litter box we tried: In our tests it loudly flushed water when clearing out the waste, an effect that could scare cats that are already skittish. Some cats (and people) may be put off by how loud automatic litter boxes can be-and if a cat has a negative association with a litter box, it might not use the box.
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