The Cat Litter Experience

Imagine an ordinary covered cat litter box. The base is not rectangular, though; it's in the shape of a stout cylinder, a meter in diameter. The cover of the "box" is in the shape of a dome, making the thing look a bit like the Pantheon. Instead of a flap for the door, it has a transparent sliding-and-locking wall wich stays open at all times other than cleaning. The cover has four latches that lock it onto the base.

On the floor of the base is a circular peice of sturdy chicken wire with a piece of fine screen pulled over it and glued at the edges. The chicken wire/screen devices fits flush in the bottom of the base. Affixed to two points opposite each other on the screen are hinged, aluminum rods, half a meter long each. They stick up through holes where the base and the cover meet, and rest at 45 degree angles to the floor.

The cat owner fills the base with clumping litter while the screen is below. He/She waits 1-3 days depending on how many cats he/she has, and when it comes time to clean it, he/she, slides and latches the door, and latches the clips that keep the cover to the base, if they aren't already. The cat owner then procceeds to press the two aluminum rods down and apart, popping the screen off the floor, taking any feline waste materials up with it. The rods are then shaken up and down to sift through any clean litter remaining on the raised screen.

The owner now unlatches the cover, pulls the cover off, and empties the waste product into a broad rectangular recepticle (included), just by tipping the screen. He/She presses the screen back beneath the litter by latching the cover and pushing upward on the levers.

Note; The owner should make sure there are no cats are in the box while cleaning is under way.