Since today was very unseasonably warm (especially compared to the freaking blizzard we had about a week and a half ago) I took advantage of the windows being open to clean the CatGenie, which I had been putting off.
In the manual, it states that cleaning it every 6 months or so will help maintain performance and is in your best interest. It’s worded very friendly and suggestion-like, so that if you read it, you feel like “well, but if it’s not exactly six months there’s no problem, yeah? and I mean, it cleans itself all the time!”
NO. This is WRONG. 6 months is like the maximum you can wait before it becomes super gross and awful inside. I feel like they should have made this more clear! Haha… but I’m just lazy, it isn’t their fault really. (That’s why I have this thing, right?!)
Recently it stopped working so well, and smelling kind of gross, but with the house closed up I didn’t want to unleash a terrible smell that would never go away… kind of the same logic as keeping rotting food in your refridgerator until garbage day: it won’t rot further, but it’s a bad idea! It ruins everything around it and will just make your life more and more miserable. And what if you forget to take it out with the garbage?! You’re stuck with it for another long period of time… (@_@)
Well anyway, I really put it off and paid for it just now D: The inside was disgusting! I don’t even know how it happened! There was a bunch of cat hair which I guess I should have expected but I think my cats don’t shed as heavily as some so I don’t think about it much…
Seeing it like that, I almost thought “a normal litterbox is better than this!! at least it doesn’t get so disgusting…” but that isn’t true – you have to wash those just as often if not more often, you just can’t see how icky it’s getting. Not to mention the clumping litter is a pain in the ass to deal with, compared with reusable granules. So in the end, it’s worth it. I just have to not forget to clean the damn thing more often. I’m sure if I did, it wouldn’t be so awful each time.
I was hoping I could clean up my room, just sorting and organizing things I mean, but this was probably a better use of my time. No, it definitely was.

Moral of the story: CLEAN YOUR DAMN CATGENIE FREQUENTLY OR SUFFER THE DISGUSTING CONSEQUENCES!