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AVO: You may love your cat for the affection and companionship he provides but cleaning up after his little trips to the cat box, well not so nice.
Woman: The lumps, the smell, the little particles get all over the place, it's dusty and horrible. I hate it.
AVO: If you had your wish you'd probably never go near the litterbox and with CatGenie your wish is granted. It's a self-flushing, self-washing cat box.
Woman: What I like best about this cat box is that I don't have to touch any cat litter.
AVO: This high-tech commode for your cat uses permanent Washable Granules instead of traditional litter. Liquids pass by the granules and through slots directly to a tank below. Everything else is scooped away by a mechanical hand, magically liquefied and flushed down a household drain.
The sanitizing solution comes in replaceable cartridges. You can set it to clean automatically or push a button to start it yourself. And how about this? It even dries the Granules in time for Fluffy's next visit.
An adapter lets you connect to a cold water line; a drain hose then flushes the liquefied waste to a toilet or even a washer drain.
Rick: Installation is really easy. Basically if you can connect a garden hose to a faucet, you can install this.
AVO: For about $300.00 the unit comes complete with everything you need.
About the only thing left to do is to train Fluffy how to flush!
Written by Steve Dale
From Chinese food for dogs to a toilet for cats to high-end purses to tote pets in, Steve sniffed out unique innovative pet products at the Global Pet Expo.
San Diego, CA. There’s nothing like the Global Pet Expo, which was held March 23 through 25 at the San Diego Convention Center. The American Pet Product Manufacturer’s Association and the Pet Industry Distributor’s Association attracted 690 company, from 24 countries. Over 700 new products for pets and pet lovers were rolled out. Here is a small sampling:
The CatGenie, touted as the world’s only self-flushing, self-washing litter box. Either you or your dog (if your dog is handy) may hook it up to your existing plumbing. The cat uses a bowl shaped like a toilet. In fact, this thing is a toilet for cats. You pre-set the CatGenie to flush as many times as you like whenever you like, or you can manually flush. There’s no litter to change, instead granules inside the bowl are thoroughly washed each time the CatGenie flushes.
Hygiene and conservation (not sending cat litter to landfills) doesn’t come cheap; the CatGenie is $299. However, since you’ll never again need litter, over time, it will pay for itself. The hope is that somehow the cleaning action (as the granules are cleaned after each flush) will actually kill the feline coronavirus which is spread through feces and hangs out for a time in the litter in typical cat boxes. Mostly affecting kittens, this virus usually fairly benign, but in a small percent of cats the cornavirus mutates into feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), which is always fatal. Someone needs to research to determine if that washing action in CatGenie could actually kill the virus and therefore lessen the likelihood of FIP being spread. Learn more about the CatGenie at www.catgenie.com, or call 888-735-3927.
By Gina Spadafori
Cox News Service
It takes a lot for a new pet product to reduce me to staring in amazement, but the new CatGenie (www.catgenie.com) managed to do exactly that.
The automatic cat box does it all — removes the waste, disposes of it through the sewer system, rinses the non-absorbent filler clean, and then dries itself before resetting. At last month's Global Pet Expo in San Diego, I stood and gawked at the thing as it went through its cycle. And again. And again.
I wasn't the only one. The massive three-day pet-industry trade show had been open for less than an hour, and it was clear by the crowd around the CatGenie booth that this product was catching more than its share of attention.
It's just a cat box, I reminded myself. A $300 cat box, money that would be spent strictly for our convenience. What we think and what we spend doesn't matter if our cats don't like a box — although the company says 15,000 test cats like the CatGenie. With all those caveats for a product that won't be on the market for a few more weeks, I still think it's the most gee-whiz pet product I've seen in a long time, maybe even since the first automatic cat-box came on the market.
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