Nobody really enjoys cleaning a litter box. Well, there’s probably somebody who enjoys it, but I haven’t ever met them.
For me, one of the worst parts about cleaning a litter box is having to deal with a flimsy scoop. Having multiple cats means that I’m scooping a lot of stuff from the boxes every day, and I have lost many scoops to bent necks and broken handles because they couldn’t handle the weight and the sheer volume of the clumps I was removing from the boxes.
For several months now I have been using the iPrimo Sifter and it is a game changer!
- Solid metal basket and handle
- Deep sifting basket for picking up a lot of litter in one pass
- Perfect handle length for getting a great scooping angle
- Small distance between slots means I can get more of the tiny chunks
- Tapered bars to make the slots allows litter to drain really quickly without having to shake the scoop
Basically, I love this scoop!
The one thing I have learned is that this scoop works best if you’re using a fine grain litter. I had, for many years been using Dr. Elsey’s Precious Cat Ultra but I found that with this scoop the grains on that litter are a little too big. Litter with smaller grains, like Nature’s Miracle Intense Defense or Tidy Cats Free and Clean clumping litters both worked well with this scoop without the grains of litter getting stuck.
In 2022 my cats switched from clumping litter options to non-clumping litter (due mainly to their age and mobility issues). For non-clumping litter the scoop works very well with a Tidy Cats non-clumping clay litter and keeps the litter contained a lot like a solid shovel would when scooping dirty litter out of the box. It has also been very good with using a pine pellet litter, Megazorb, and is great for sifting out the used sawdust bits from the solid pellets that go back into the box.
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