🐾 Elevate your cat care game with smart, silent, and safe litter tech!
The MeoWant Self-Cleaning Cat Litter Box combines cutting-edge safety sensors, app-enabled remote control, and ultra-quiet operation to deliver a hygienic, odor-free environment for multi-cat households. Its spacious, low-entry design accommodates cats up to 18 pounds, while automatic waste separation and health monitoring redefine convenience and care.
Item Weight | 13.05 Kilograms |
Weight Capacity Maximum | 18 Pounds |
Item Dimensions L x W x H | 20.5"L x 20.9"W x 21.85"H |
Size | One Size |
Style Name | simple fashion home |
Color | Grey |
Material Type | Polypropylene |
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Full review 9mo in: Despite issues, best in class
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 :)
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Great robot litter box - I got 2!
This is a great robotic litterbox that doesn't break the bank...as much as some other robotic ones.I'd give this a solid 8.5/10 vs. my experience with other robotic litter boxes.Pros:+ IT WORKS! This is the most important part. All other features are add-ons & luxuries, but the core function is that it has to automatically scoop up the poop & pee while leaving behind the clean litter. In this aspect, it performs very very well. For reference - I use Arm & Hammer Slide litter. The drum rotates to move the cat litter through a net, which then filters out the solid stuff from the otherwise sand-like litter and deposits the waste inside a box with a liner bag. No waste or litter has gotten stuck on the net for me.+ It's quiet. Quiet enough that I can only hear it when I'm in the same area as the litter box. Any significant noise that is generated is from the actual solids falling into the waste box.+ App functionality. This is a WIP, clearly as updates are still being made. But current features allow you to track which cat is in the box via weight. If you have 2 cats of similar weight, it probably won't work that well. The app allows you to manually operate the box or set a time delay for when it should run after a cat has used it. I've found that 30 minutes post use is a good time. The default 1 minute setting was way too soon.+ Storage. The waste box isn't huge, but it's large enough to store everything for a week from 2 cats, if necessary. But it'd be pretty full. I generally prefer to change the liner bags 2x a week, on trash days. Those tend to be 1/3 full. Liner bags that come from the manufacturer are lightly scented and have drawstrings. They work, but you could probably use another bag if you'd like, as there's a plastic component that keeps the liner bags in place and would be compatible with other bags too.+ Odor. I have 2 cats, so you can imagine that quite a bit of poop and pee happens. I haven't smelled any of the odor. The lined waste bin is effective at keeping odor at bay. Though keep in mind a larger contributor to this is the litter that I use.+ Price. The price is competitive relative to other robot litter boxes. It's not super cheap, but it isn't asking for $600-700 dollars that so many robot litter boxes are asking for...and still somehow won't work perfectly.Cons:- App keeps logging me out & forgetting my machine at random. I'd say this happens once a month. This is a minor annoyance more than anything else. I have the app on my iPhone, but basically I have to log back in every time and there is no Face ID sign-in. You'll have to type your username (email) & password every time. Then, the app randomly forgets the litter box machine too, so I'll have to reconnect them. It's a quick process, but is annoying. I hope this will be addressed in future updates. The good thing is that all your previously set parameters remain, so the machine will still operate as usual. I only really access the app to trigger a manual clean, usually right before I tie the trash and take it out. You can do this in the app or by clicking the first button from left to right, on the base (I use my toe for this). I'm docking 1 point for this as it's an inconvenience that should be addressed.- Litter tracking. The opening to the litter box is relatively low, probably for ease of entry for even older/larger cats. This is good for futureproofing as our cats will inevitably get older. However, that also means that it's very common for some litter to get pushed out of litter box if your cat decides to do some intense digging. The cats will definitely track litter. Do note that the machine comes with a small litter tracking mat. I've alleviated most of this by using a large litter tracking mat. They should offer a small insert to snap onto the entry to prevent litter tracking. For this I'm docking 1/2 a point.As you can see, there are a lot more pros vs cons and most importantly the cons are not deal breakers. No core functionality is lost with the cons I've listed. Many other robot litter boxes cost more, and still somehow mess up on core functions. At least, with this box, it'll get the most important job done - cleaning the litter when needed without fuss. I've had this box for a few months now and it's been great - so much so that I bought a 2nd one to make life easier.
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