sprint_sucks's Full Review: Littermaid LMT100 Cat Privacy Tent
We have four (!!) cats, so there's two boxes I get to clean every day. Don't judge me on the cats, two were strays we couldn't find homes for.
I got the first cat tent by saving up points from Fresh Step cat litter. I thought the cats liked it. It seemed to keep the area cleaner and there seemed to be far fewer "accidents." (I use the quotes not to be cute but because I'm pretty sure they were intentional misses.)
It seemed to work so well that just before we moved, I bought a second one to house the other box and upon arrival the new home, set both tents up.
I had tried other things like enclosed boxes or boxes with really high lips, but the fat cat refused to hoist her fatness into the tall box and neither she nor the angry cat would use the covered box.
Well, first off, the cats liked to lay on top of the tents, or leap onto the roof on their way up or down from higher locations. Finally one of the posts snapped and it sagged from then on.
I could have lived with that, if not for the fact that the cats now treated the entire tent as the litterbox, no longer confining themselves to the box. The material, whatever it is, doesn't clean easily, or even really completely. I don't think it's "plastic-y" enough to really resist what the cats will aim at it, and even if you can get it mostly clean, it will end up stained and clumping clay litter is almost impossible to completely remove from the fabric of the tents.
So very quickly, no matter how often I cleaned them, the boxes would become filthy and stinky and the cats were leaving "presents" outside the tents because they didn't want to go in there anymore.
It was really frustrating and I finally just junked both tents, got two little mats with bumps on them designed to get litter out of paws before it's tracked too far and cats and people in this house seem to all be happier... best of all, less "statements" of protest left for us to clean.
The tents were a nice idea, but they need to be easier to clean and stand up to use. Maybe completely open on the front and have a slide-out liner, maybe a different kind of material, maybe a sloped roof to discourage cats from climbing/sleeping on, maybe a different kind of venting system to keep it smelling better inside.
The Littermaid Cat Privacy Tent fits perfectly over any Littermaid self-cleaning cat box and other litter boxes. It is encloses the litter box on all...More at ThePetStoreOnline.com
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