Neakasa M1 Open-Top Self Cleaning Cat Litter Box, Automatic Cat Litter Box with APP Control, Odor-Free Waste Disposal Includes Trash Bags

I stopped what I was doing right now to look for and write this review. This is more than worth the money. I have 4 cats. 3 adult and 1 kitten-ish. They all use this one product. I couldn't be happier with it. It works. It has an app and it's easy to dump. Win Win. I'd give this a 12 if I could. I like it. I'm happy. No odors and easy of use. I use a light weight litter and all is well. I dump it every night and only change the bag occasionally. With the right litter there's no reason to change the bag more than that. If you're on the fence... but it.

The media could not be loaded. Long but worth the read to know how to get your cats to use it. I chose this automatic litter box because of the open top. I have a male sphynx who has a long body and weighs 10 lbs and I also have a small female sphynx who weighs 6 pounds. My male does this crazy looking thing where he stands up on his hind legs and holds onto the side and pees. I had a feeling the enclosed litter robot might not work for him. I’m using the arm and hammer hard ball litter in this and it works wonderfully. The smell of this litter is amazing!! My whole room smells nice. Sphynx cats eat more than other cats and they are stinky when they poop! They can clear a room! The only time I smell the box is while they’re pooping and I never smell it again. I have this box set to turn over the poop to make sure it’s coated good and then clean and dump it 7 minutes after they get out! It’s perfect timing for my cats. It gives it time to clump and then dump. When I first started setting it up which is a breeze to do btw, my male kept jumping in it like it was a box to play in. I had to remove him 3 times to finish. I activated it to level the litter and he was fascinated with the movement and watched it. I removed their old breeze box completely out of sight and placed this new one in the exact same spot that the old box was. This is gross and graphic but it’s how you need to do it: The way you get them to use it is, you take a decent sized, coated with old cat litter turd out of your old box, you can use a glove, but I just used a few paper towels and picked the biggest one out before throwing the old box away. It was pretty dried so it broke up into 3 pieces when I went to put it in the new litter which worked out because I planted and slightly buried with the tops still showing slightly in 3 places spaced out in the new litter box. Make sure your new box here is set to manual instead of automatic so that it doesn’t dump your turds you just planted right away. If you have multiple cats, you can set it back to automatic AFTER ALL your cats have done their business. My male sniffed and quickly realized that this is not a box to play in but a box to do his business. He cautiously climbed up in it and scratched around and finally positioned himself which I took a picture of. My female was sleeping at the time, so she hadn’t had a chance to notice the new box yet, so the old turds and his business he just did was left in there. When she woke up, she went to the area and just stood there and looked at it for a couple of minutes but then she started smelling and inched closer to get a better whiff and check it out. Now, she’s pretty tiny so when she went to climb in, she struggled a little because it’s taller than what she’s used to. I need to find a small step but I haven’t found one yet that I can place in front of it on the mat to help her. I left her alone tho and didn’t help her because she was in the mood to use the box so I didn’t want to distract her or have her associate having to go with any disruptions so I let her struggle and pull herself up in there. She did the same thing he did, smelled for awhile and scratched around a bit and then she peed. I let her take her time getting out and go on about her business and then I turned the automatic on a few minutes later. Both cats just watched it move and it was very quiet so I didn’t bother them at all. They have used it every time like normal since and that was last Friday when I got it. I decided to check the drawer 4 days later and it was time to take the bag out and put a new one. Just DON’T open the drawer until you’re ready to change it because, it’s stinky when you open it. The drawer is sealed very well though and contains the smell so you only smell it when you open it. I’ve never smelled it at all before when walking by the box. I decided every 4 days was a good time frame to check and change the bag for my two cats so I set a 4 day reminder in the app. I love how you can just cinch it up and throw it away and the bags aren’t cheap. They are heavy duty! God!! That’s so easy and quick! I love it!! I may change litter but I love the smell of this one so much that I don’t want to. My male is a wild man getting out after he does his business. I guess he feels so good and light that he just barrels out of there so he flings. The mat is great though! I just fold it up a little on the sides once a day and dump it back in the box. I put another rug on the other side of the mat to catch anything in case he jumps out and over which he almost always does. That is working well. I was a little nervous about making this investment but it’s the best decision I’ve ever made for my cats and sooo worth it! I’ll never go back to sifting turds out everyday again!

Purchased in 12/2024Had been considering getting this or the Whisker Litter Robot 4. Found this one after a review from “One Man Five Cats” on YT (I highly recommend his videos if you are in search for in-depth reviews on automatic litter boxes and are torn between different brands)I chose this one for the affordability and the open front, since I have 3 cats — 11 lb, 14 lb, and a 5 lb kitten — so I needed a litter box that could fit a wide range of cats comfortably, wouldn’t break my pocket and had a large waste bin capacity.I actually love this litter box and recommend it to every cat owner I know! Entrance is low enough and large enough that my kitten and my two adult cats can enter. It’s built well, and it’s easy to take apart and clean.I highly recommend to turn on the automatic cover setting to help stifle any smells and avoid any extra smearing. Extending the time from when the cat leaves the litter box to when it dumps (mine is set to 8 minutes) will also keep it cleaner which will reduce how often you need to clean the machine.If you have a cat that tends to pee on the sides of their litter box, it is essential to put the seam stickers on. My partner recommended I use silicone to line the seams once the stickers fall off, which so far they have held on wonderfully but that will be my next step. I plan on also taking it a step further and use a sealant spray to help the litter roll right off.The amount of litter bags that come with the machine is a generous amount, they have lasted me 5 months and I still have some left — mind you this is with 3 cats who avg 10 to 18 litter box trips a day! The open front makes it super easy to refill the litter before work.The box is easy to assemble, parts just click on, and app is easy to navigate, even allowing a cleaning reminder so it doesn’t get gross. It gives a great peace of mind with the amount of cats I have since I work 24 hour shifts. I never smell the dumped litter until I have to open the waste bin to change it.I will say that the app does seem to have trouble detecting which of my cats are using the litter box, if tracking specific cats bathroom usage is important I would say the app still has a long ways to go before it’s more accurate.I wouldn’t recommend this for cats that dig a lot, at least until they come out with a barrier that can attach to the front, my one cat digs a lot and gets litter everywhere.Overall, I still give this a 5/5 as it fits my lifestyle well.