Tidy Cats Hooded Litter Box System, Breeze Hooded System Starter Kit Litter Box, Litter Pellets & Pads, White

Switching to this kitty litter system has made my life SO much easier. My long-haired cat is somewhere around 17 years old now, and he has kidney disease. His urination patterns have drastically increased over the last couple of years and its made kitty litter an awful chore. I was using sWheat scoop for years, but it did nothing to hide the smell (which has also gotten worse with his age) and he did manage to track it around the house a bit. So I decided to switch to Arm and Hammer and that was a complete nightmare. The tracking was awful, it was on the couch and in the bed, and he would actually come out of the litter box wet sometimes and leave dusty paw prints all over the floors. I decided to switch to the Breeze system after looking at some reviews and WOW has it made a difference. The pads soak up all of his urine (its almost comical how bloated they are after a week) and I notice 0 smell. He doesn't have very stinky poops, but I find it way easier to pluck them out and toss them in the trash with a doggy poop bag rather than scooping every other day. He used to smell like his litter, but not anymore! And maybe like, 4 pellets come out of the box per week, no more awful tracking. This thing is amazing and I will sing its praise to literally everyone I know. Note: My cat is on his way out, and the vet has advised me to just make his life comfortable so I'm aware his pee patterns are indicative of a bigger problem. I'm just happy I found this system to make both of our lives a bit more enjoyable during the time we have left together.

I've had the breeze system for years. My cats (now cat) adjusted really well with no wait time. Is it more expensive? Yes. Is it worth it not to have gross unsanitary litter that gets everywhere and is hard to clean up? Absolutely 100%. I've read some reviews about pellets being outside the box (well sure, cats try to cover) and some getting stuck in the grate and pee at some places. Well sure. This doesn't magically vacuum up pellets and pee. You have to do SOME amount of work to keep it clean. Come on now. To avoid the pellets getting stuck, after I scoop or change the pee pad, I move the pellets around with the little shovel and that includes getting all the way to the bottom. I also just pick up the stray pellets when I see them and throw them back in. This is NO big deal. I also use the 7lb bag vs the 3.5. Just my preference. Another tip is to turn the pee pad tray around to evenly distribute since some cats prefer one spot. Of course pee will overflow if they're used to going in one spot only. Nothing is perfect but this comes close. Litter is awful. To have the pee go onto a pad is great! I bought a diaper genie that I put the bagged used pads into and then into the bag in the genie. I rarely smell anything at all unless it's a fresh poo.

Tidy cat almost got it with this box. The drainage feature is wonderful. However they greatly missed with the hood design. I had the previous box without the hood and had the same issues where the cat pee ended up where it shouldn't. So, after paying a lot of money for hits box I had to make a few modifications and now the box works perfectly. 1. Although you might be excited about the cover that pushes back for easy clean, looks are deceiving on the website photos. First they have the same lip as the old box that hooks around and takes about an inch and half of space away from the box. The lid just sits down on top of it. It doesn't sit in anything or snaps down to make a seal, just sits on the HUGE lip. The door opening is very wide and I found my cat peed outside the box as well as on the lip, which made it drain outside the box and onto the floor as well as in the handles of the pull out drawer (same issue with the other box). I don't know why they didn't use an engineering brain and make the hood sit into a groove to seal and let the pee run down into the box. Fail, just a huge fail. I removed the ridge of both the hood ledge and the hood lip to add more space back in (using super cutters and a file). I took a sheet of galvanized steel and cut out the box and folded from in and out with the bottom ledge of the steel going below the hood so that it went into the box so when the cat peed it would drain into the box and not out from underneath the hood. She still managed to pee out the front so I lifted up a piece of the sheet to make an inch higher lip for her to step over and into and to date she has not managed to pee outside the box. 2. the tidy cat pellets. They are genius, however I felt they smelled after a couple days. I tried washing them and even though that helped, I got tired of it. I switched to the Blue Walnut Pellets and they are amazing. no smell and as it breaks apart it falls down onto the pad below adding another layer of protection. I just use doggie bags to scoop out the poop. 3. When it comes time to wash the box, do not use Clorox wipes to clean this box, it makes one funky smell. Instead, I found using simple green really helps eliminate the urine odor from the plastic. They do come in wipes or you can use the spray and paper towels. Overall I do love the concept of the box, but feel Tidy cat focused on trying to make it easier for the human consumer they forgot the main user of this box...the cat.

Ok so here’s the thing, not dealing with ripe cemented urine, is not missed at all. So being able to slide out a tray and discard it in one fail swoop. Priceless. However, the clay pellets are a fail of epic proportion. I had been using skoon, which is far better in the poop dehydration business, but a small fortune. This stuff doesn’t come even close to drying anything out. My cat lets loose twice a day. The pellets claim to last a MONTH. I’m sorry, no. Not even close, not even a week. I set up the box on a sat, and by tues, a quarter of them had gone into the trash, with the poop they were all glued to. Secondly, because it doesn’t dry, if you want to... idk not smell feces while waiting for nature to do its thing... forget about scooping it. The scooper looked like a blown up diaper by the end of it. Not to mention the handful of clay pellets that now had smeared poop all over them. The system as intended, is a complete mess. However, after spending nearly $50 on a box, I was determined to make this work. Thanks to many others who felt the same, I’ve discovered that feline pine is literally pennies in comparison, and large enough to not fall through the holes. I actually enjoy the smell (fresh out the bag of course) and at a fraction of the cost, I’m not cringing at all the pellets I’m losing. A 40lb bag at $16! The pine turns to dust in the pad, although most of the urine actually made its way passed the pellets and through the grated tray as intended. Another hack is that if you’re dealing with a less firm poop, I find that using dog poop bags is a much easier solution. Bag over hand, one quick motion. Done. If you insist on not using pine litter, I in no way recommended this. If you’re willing to bend the rules, it’s pretty amazing. Note* please don’t use pine pellets that isn’t safe for cats, it is toxic.