MeowantSelf-Cleaning Cat Litter Box, Integrated Safety Protection Automatic Cat Litter Box for Multi Cats, Extra Large/Odor Removal/APP Control Smart Cat Litter Box with Mat & LinerGlobal Recycled StandardGlobal Recycled StandardGlobal Recycled Standard

We’ve had our MeowWant litter box for about 9 months now. I got it shortly after we adopted our littlest of two Siberian cats after I realized how much of a pain it was to hand-scoop two girls’ worth of waste every day. It’sgot its flaws, but it’s infinitely better than hand-scooping.It’s got a small enough footprint that it doesn’t take up too much space in our little apartment bathroom, but it’s large enough on the inside that our ultra-fluffy 13lb 3yr old girl can pretty comfortably go potty, turn around, and dig without being cramped. It works as intended probably 90% of the time, which is as good as it gets right now (skip to the last paragraph for my TLDR on why, and my reasoning for recommending it).1. The app is nothing to write home about; I thought it would be a great way to keep track of their weight, but it turns out that it just kind of upsets the machine to have an integrated scale (of questionable accuracy), and it disconnects from my phone anytime it’s unplugged/reset, so eventually I just stopped reconnecting it. Our girls will also play on top of it, which triggers the weight sensor and logs it as potty time, which totally throws off the data. I only really needed to connect it once at the beginning to set our cleaning cycle times (8am, 12pm, 5pm, 12am), but otherwise I’m fine with not getting notifications.The machine itself is usually well-behaved, but like all auto-scooping litter boxes on the market, it can be finicky.2. You have to be really, really careful to shut the waste bin door all the way after opening it up, making sure it is latched and flush against the curve of the barrel before walking away. If it’s left partially open or a corner is sticking out, it’ll catch on its next cycle and spill the contents of the upside down all over the floor. As the lights are blinking red, you have to remove the back part, pick up the barrel, and physically rotate it back into position (and shut the waste bin door properly), unplug it and plug it back in to get it to complete a spill-free cycle if this happens.3. I recommend keeping a hand-vac handy/near the litter box in case of this, and in general; it’s quite shallow and low to the ground, so if your cat(s) are big on digging like our girls are, litter will end up on floor anyway. Since it’s across from our toilet, I literally just vacuum the surrounding area whenever I pee (…in the human toilet, lol), which makes it very easy.4. You also must be mindful about what kind of litter you use. The advertisement states that it can take tofu or larger/longer-sized litter pellets, but it really can’t without wasting a bunch of it, as it will mistakenly sift larger particles into the waste bin. We’ve tried 6+ different types of liter with this box, and the ones we’ve found to be the best are ones with very fine, heavy particles, such as BoxyCat or other standard clay litter, or Sustainably Yours corn litter (we love this stuff, it’s just a little spendy).5. The holes are currently large enough that poops the size of a marble or smaller will be sifted back in with the clean litter. That’s not a huge deal if your litter is really absorbent and dries out the “leftovers,” but I think they should market this for use with the small grain litters and not for use with tofu litters, so they could make the grate smaller in order to catch the small poops.Those things may seem like glaring issues, but they are not specific to MeowWant. Even the biggest, most expensive, most complicated, fanciest-seeming litter boxes have issues, many of which overlap with the issues that this one has. The main thing I learned during the hours upon hours of research I did prior to purchasing this litter box was that the auto-scooping litter robot market as a whole has a long way to go before these are more reliable and commonplace.The thing that *is* unique to MeowWant is the impeccable customer service. They’ve been incredibly accomodating, friendly, and responsive responsive to our concerns in a way that has me believing they actually take what customers say into account when considering design tweaks for future iterations of this product, which is very encouraging (and exceedingly rare).Overall, for now, I genuinely believe this is one of the best auto-scooping boxes available. Between the small footprint, large inside space, quiet operation, and relative ease of use & cleaning (tip: use some enzyme wipes/spray/foam in between deep cleans) make it totally worthwhile if your goal is to save time and energy dealing with your furbaby’s excrement, especially if you don’t have a ton of space or money for a “nicer one.” I’ll put it this way: cleaning up after the occasional litter box malfunction takes a lot less time and energy than scooping a regular litter box multiple times a day. Unless you want to wait for the industry to catch up, this is worth getting.Edit: Although it is not advertised to work with crystal/silica litter, it does sift out the poo and stirs it around enough to not clump, though you may want to scrape the bottom every so often if you go this route. We had to switch away from the clay litter because it was causing our older girl’s tear ducts to plug up, and we can’t use plant based litter because my partner is super allergic to the dust from it. I’m happy to report that it’s working quite well with FreshStep’s blue crystal litter (I don’t remember the exact name. It is not scented), both for us and the girls :)

I was looking for ways to make my life easier and started researching automatic litter boxes and decided on this one. Best decision of my life! It is well made, quiet, and keeps all the smells contained . It was reasonably priced compared to others as well. I have two cats one of which is very skittish and one that is a messy user. They both took to this box immediately! The app that you use is very user friendly and lets you know when your cats have used the box and how long they were in there as well as how much they weigh. It’s has settings to spread the litter, change the litter, or do a clean. No more scooping! This has made my life so much easier . It’s also very compact and looks much nicer than a traditional box.!I would give this more stars if I could ! Totally recommend!

To give a little backstory: I had the litter robot 3 for several years and endured MANY issues with it (not rotating, getting stuck, litter getting stuck in all the gears, needing to do multiple replacements and repairs, etc). The cats liked it, but it was a nightmare until one of the more recent app updates when it became a bit more stable, though eventually the whole system just died.I then got my second smart litter box: a Choueer one (Chinese crowd funded brand). LOTS of issues, but weirdly...I liked it? It looked very clean and modern, took up little space, and my cats actually really loved the open top design. It ended up being very reliable until the moment it fully stopped working (which happened to many people - the company dissolved and never provided any customer support).Desperate for a new solution, but weary of spending a ton of money on something that may fail, I found this MeoWant device! I did as much research as I possibly could and found mostly good things about it. After having it now for 1.5 months....I have a love hate relationship with it, so let me go into why:Love:-Design is very modern and pleasant to look at!-WHISPER quiet. I cannot overstate how quiet it is. I have to be right next to it to hear it moving.-App works surprisingly well! It connects quickly and does a great job telling each cat apart by weight (though somehow all my cats lost 2lb at the exact same time which is a little suspicious, but otherwise it's been very consistent).- So far, I have not had any failures requiring trouble-shooting or restarting. This is...magical. I cannot state how rare this is compared to my past experiences.-Litter doesn't get in the motor. Because of the design, litter doesn't make its way into any moving parts, which is fantastic!Don't-love:-The interior is simply...too small. My cats are not huge (ranging 9-11 lb) and the inside is almost too small for them to walk in and turn around. They often walk in, feel trapped, and back out. This causes MANY problems, the first of which is simply them not wanting to use it very willingly.-By far the largest problem, is sometimes they'll walk in as far as they can, with their butt still sticking out the front, and just poop out the front and onto the floor -_--The litter container is far too shallow. The small-ness makes this problem worse, but there's just not enough room for cats to bury their waste as much as they want. This adds to the problem of them not wanting to use it, AND it makes the smell worse.-Since the litter is shallow and waste doesn't get buried very deep, the waste that is collected in the bin has not had as much moisture drawn out of it by the clumping litter, so the waste container smells MUCH more strongly like waste than my previous litter boxes. I've had to buy deodorizing powder to sprinkle in the waste container to keep it tolerable.-The grate that filters the waste from the litter has such big holes, that lots of smaller waste clumps don't get filtered out. I don't mean just "sometimes" either - some will simply NEVER get filtered out because they are smaller than the very large holes. I cannot figure out why they would make the holes this big. Peanut m&ms would fit through them.-Last complaint, and it's minor, but this same litter box is produced by a lot of different companies, and every other one I see advertised mentions there being a camera inside the box that you can access from the app. This amazon one does NOT have a camera, so just something to be aware of.So, there you have it. I really want to love this litter box, but I'm heart broken by the elements that simply make it an imperfect solution. I know I will ultimately have to buy a litter-robot 4 of something insanely expensive but heavy duty, and I'm very disappointed by that.