Yes, but less than the ads claim. A five-year, three-cat owner’s honest audit of what disappears, what appears, and when manual scooping still wins.
How to Deep Clean an Automatic Litter Box
Every teardown guide is written by one manufacturer for one machine. Here is the model-agnostic version, built around the electronics rather than the brand.
Why a Self-Cleaning Litter Box Starts to Smell
It was perfect for months and now it is not. The odor is almost never a fault, it is the routine the machine quietly talked you out of keeping.