Getting Your Cat to Use the Litter-Robot™

In most cases, cats will quickly adapt to a new litter box. However, if your cat protests, here are some suggestions that may help:

• To avoid unnecessarily frightening your cat, leave the Litter-Robot™ switched off until you are sure your cat is using it regularly. A cleaning cycle can be run by turning the Litter-Robot on.
  
  
• Try enticing your cat into the globe with cat treats or catnip.
  
  
• If your cat protests by urinating somewhere outside the litter box, there is no reason to continue the 'cold turkey' approach. Bring back the old litter box, but leave the Litter-Robot out as well. By letting the old litter box get full it may motivate your cat to migrate to the cleaner litter in the Litter-Robot.
  
  
• You can also gradually move the old litter box closer to the Litter-Robot helping your cat to get used to the presence of the Litter-Robot.
  
  
• Cats love empty cardboard boxes. Try covering the Litter-Robot with the cardboard box it came in. Cut an opening in the side of the box to match the entry/exit opening in the globe and cut a notch in the bottom for access to the drawer. Leave the Litter-Robot's power cord unplugged while covered with the box. You can run a supervised clean cycle by simply plugging it in and waiting for it to finish and then unplug it again.

Cautions

To ensure the comfort and safety of your cat, we strongly advise against using the Litter-Robot in unsupervised, automatic mode for kittens or small cats weighing less than 5 pounds.  Due to their low weight, kittens and small cats will not activate the cat sensor.

You can, however, start the Litter-Robot cleaning cycle manually by turning the unit on when the litter bed needs to be cleaned and then turning the unit off again once the cycle has been completed.  You can continue this manual "supervised" mode until your kittens have gained sufficient weight to activate the cat sensor.  In this way, you still benefit from not having to scoop the litter box by hand.