The part that holds the mess is steel.
The Litter Box. A stainless steel pan with a plastic hood over it, a lid that flips up so you can scoop from above, and a front door your cat walks through.
Ships from a US warehouse. Three to eight days to your door, handling included. Nothing is pre-ticked on this page.
It is not a stainless steel litter box.
The supplier sells this as a “fully enclosed stainless steel cat litter box”. Read their own description and it says, in their words, the stainless steel litter pan. The steel is the pan. The hood over it, the lid and the door are plastic.
That is worth buying anyway, because the pan is the part that holds wet litter for years and the part you scrape a scoop across twice a day. Plastic in that job gets scratched, and scratches are where smell settles in. The hood never touches any of it.
But we are not going to print their title. The middle photograph above is the pan on its own, so you can see exactly which part is which before you decide.
Measured rows, and the ones they left blank.
The supplier printed the dimensions onto the photograph in both centimetres and inches, which is more than most of them manage. Where they said nothing, the row says so.
| External size | 60 by 35 by 35 cm, which is 23.6 by 13.8 by 13.8 inches |
|---|---|
| Pan | Stainless steel. The supplier does not state the grade, so we are not going to print one |
| Hood, lid and door | Plastic. Their material field says only “Others”, so which plastic it is, we cannot tell you. We have asked |
| Lid | Flips up from the top so you can scoop without lifting the hood off |
| Top panel | Translucent, so you can see the litter level with the lid shut |
| Entry | Opening in the front, at one end |
| Comes apart | Three pieces: pan, rim, hood. The pan can be used on its own as an open tray |
| Scoop | Included, clips to the outside of the box |
| Colour | Grey, one finish only |
| Shipped weight | 3,003 g, which is about 6.6 lb |
| Country of origin | China |
| Ships from | United States warehouse |
| Delivery | 3 to 8 business days, handling included |
| Stock today | 690 units, read from the warehouse as this page loaded |
Four reasons not to buy this.
If one of these is a dealbreaker, we would rather you found out here than after the box arrives.
It does not make litter smell go away.
The supplier says odourless and locks odours inside. We are not repeating either. A hood holds smell in a smaller volume, which is pleasant when the lid is down and worse at the moment you open it. Steel does not absorb odour the way scratched plastic does, and that is a real difference, but nothing here replaces scooping daily.
Most of what you see is plastic.
The pan is steel. The hood, the lid and the door are not. If you came looking for an all metal box because you want no plastic in the house at all, this is not that, and the ones that are cost roughly thirty dollars more.
A hood is a box a cat has to agree to.
Cats generally prefer a tray that is large, open and easy to leave. Most adapt to a hood without fuss and some never do, and the ones that do not tell you by going somewhere else. The hood lifts off and the steel pan works alone, so try it open first if yours is nervous.
It is 23.6 inches long.
That is a big object to stand in a small bathroom, and it is the measurement people get wrong. Put a tape on the floor before you order rather than after.