I am working on a new ebook on my litter maid modification, that is easy to do by most homeowners, that ends motor burnout issues and most odor issues with the current litter maid system.
I will be releasing this ebook sometime this month and am offering a notification sign up form on the homepage and on the ebook page. I will be charging a nominal fee for the ebook.
I hope that this modification helps those folks out there that have multi cat families and other pet issues that necessitate a lot of litter box cleanup and that litter maid alleviates to some degree.
One of the biggest problem with litter maid is its inability to deal with cat pee in a clumped form(causes motor burnout, clogged rake and other issues).
My modification ends that issue and it also alleviates the cat odor problems that exist with the current litter maid system.
I hope to have the publication ready by the end of this month.
I will be notifying everyone that signs up for the notification as soon as the ebook is available.
| Comments:| | roy 
My Modified Litter Maid elite is working great to date. I cleaned it out yesterday and no problems. Right now, with the current usage, it lasts approximately 2 weeks without any cleaning or degunking.
A dream come true.
I keep regular litter boxes available as well and as the pets switch over to that modified version of litter mate, that should make my life even better.
I dig my litter boxes once a day and top them up with fresh litter, sometimes I add baking soda to the boxes.
Yesterday I cleaned the sides of the boxes while I was digging out the litter. If I spray the sides with some cleaner(I used clorox spray yesterday, but don't recommend it if there are cats snooping around because it is not good for cats at all), then once sprayed, clean out the box and scrape dirty areas on the sides while they are wet, usually they soften up pretty fast and after going over them with a paper towel, they end up being pretty clean and fresher. I use either kids and pets(don't leave them wet, wipe them dry as you go), or lysol spray(diluted blue formula). I dont recommend cleaning them if there are cats lurking about because if they get that stuff on their feet they may get pretty sick. I wipe the sides of mine with a paper towel or two as I go. I have a multi cat family so I have a few boxes to clean. Cats need 2 boxes per cat, ideally. They usually pee in one and poo in another one. I don't have the room for 2 per cat, but I have as many as I can. They love it when the box is clean, and I try to keep up with them. Having more litter boxes does not make cleaning them a terribly urgent matter because they have more options with more boxes and fill them up with their litter slower when there are more boxes.
I usually sprinkle baking soda either in the top up litter that I put on top of the cleaned boxes or sprinkle it on the top and work it in some.
When I finish cleaning the boxes, I smooth and level all of the litter so that the cats realize that they are clean with no buried problem areas. 26.09.08 20:57 roy
Basically a litter maid is just a motorized litter rake. It cleans a box of litter to varying degrees.
Its' whole function is to wipe off the surface droppings and rake them into a pan at the end of the unit. The problem is that the urine forms clumps and clay deposits in the bottom of the litter pan. This offers a lot of resistance to the rake that drags across the pan.
This causes the pet owner to have a lot of problems. While the litter maid originally was designed to rake off the pet droppings into a catch pan, it ends up being a clayed up mess that the owner has to spend a lot of time cleaning so that the rake can keep dragging smoothly through the litter.
Not only does the owner have to clean the rake and other associated areas of the unit, like the track for the rake etc, but the rake is unable to remove the soaked clay litter that is gunked up at the bottom of the litter pan and the owner also has to scrape that out as well, quite often, or the clay accumulates and the motorized rake has to drag through the ever rising clay deposits under the surface of the litter.
This causes motor noise and increasing cleaning problems, not only does the rake have to be cleaned of the clay gunk, often to keep it working, but the litter maid generates urine odors from the accumulated urine under the surface and the urine soaked clay that has to be dug often, out of the bottom of the litter pan by the owner.
Not only that, but the accumulating clay on the rake makes the problems worse by the day, because the rake tips have to be washed eventually, especially with heavy use by multi cat families.
The owner gets exhausted trying to make their litter maid work like it was supposed to. He, or she gets down on the floor, and uses the small litter scoop and attempts to clean the gunked up rake, with the special toothed scoop provide by litter maid.
Not only that, but the clay gunk has to be washed out of the bottom of the pan , as it accumulates and continues to soil the rake.
This means a complete clean out. Now the hapless owner has to remove the top of the unit so that he, or she can access the bottom pan for washing.
Not only does the owner get frustrated, but the time involved gets to be so much that the owner finally gives up.
I had shelved two of mine, after they burned out at different times, but still under warranty.
I was so exhausted from having to keep the unit running, and didn't want to have to face motor burnout issues again, that I decided to just shelve them until I could figure out some sort of way to make the whole thing work.
I finally got the units modified and they work great now.
05.10.08 16:27 roy
Litter maid ebook is ready. Information is on the homepage. 24.11.08 19:37 |
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