I do not recommend the Litter-Robot, a $500 automatic litter box, because, no matter how you try to govern your cats’ behavior, they are living beings, and they will relieve themselves where they want to.
When you find that they have chosen to use the exterior of the unit as a toilet, it will injure, slightly, a distant, tender patch of your soul.
I do not recommend the Litter-Robot, because, while it will control the odor, it also smells strongly of rubber, so strongly that it will remind you of burning rubber fires in the post-apocalyptic landscape that may yet arrive.
I do not recommend expecting living beings to conform to your exact expectations, in general; when you limit the grandeur of another sentient life-form by trying to cajole it into the precise configuration that would please you, it’s like forcing a hummingbird to crawl.
I do not recommend making unreasonable efforts to reduce life’s small inefficiencies and inconveniences, for these are an important part of the texture of experience, and, anyway, you will always find another inefficiency if none are present.
I do not recommend the Litter-Robot, because any sufficiently complicated solution will generate a new salad of problems, which is painful to witness, though it is one way to give life a kind of strangled meaning.
I do not recommend avoiding your pain, because you will find, one day, that you’ve structured your existence into a long, complicated peninsula of avoidance, at the end of which, alone, your pain will find you in the dark water.
I do not recommend neglecting your loneliness, because if you don’t spend some time with your melancholy, it will become increasingly impatient for your company, tapping at your window until you look up.
I do not recommend the Litter-Robot, because, when it’s time to return it, you’ll have to disassemble it, hose it down, and dry it, thus entering into a deep relationship with your cats’ waste, of precisely the sort that you wanted to avoid.
I do not recommend the Litter-Robot, because, in response to your refund request, the customer service department won’t send you a shipping label for a long period of time—they’re busy dealing with other maniacs like you.
I do not recommend the Litter-Robot, because small acts of service can shore up the soul, even if they involve scooping litter.
I recommend installing charcoal filters and odor-controlling granules in regular letterboxes, because that totally works, and it costs twenty dollars.
Take the rest of your dollars and take someone you love for a long walk, followed by a nice meal. Look into their eyes and feel your affection, like a warm wind touching every part of you. Tell them about that experience. If you have to spend time on robots, choose a different one.
This is my favorite thing of yours I've ever read.
Thank you! for your review I was thinking of ordering. I like Tidy Breeze system so I will stick with that.