/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1555677
Put a cooling rack on the bottom of the box under the litter.
Work out some motorized stuff to lift it up, shake the non-clumped litter back in the box, then hoist the mummified turds and piss clumps into a nearby receptacle.

>>1555677
stop being lazy, you wanted the fucking cat.

>>1555677
>owning a cat

Mental illness.

>>1555677
>Ideas?

you might have an easier time training him to use the toilet. if you have two toilets its even easier because one can be dedicated to that weird contraption that you train him with

source: i trained my cat to shit and piss in the toilet

>>1555677
Let him shit and piss in your neighbours' gardens.

Buy one you idiot.

>>1555679
>stop being lazy
Fuck that, negro. Machines exist so humans can be lazy.

>>1555740
The third step is the important one.

>>1555677
Train her to shit into a 500ft deep hole. It could be used for generations of cats.

>>1555740
Won't work because the basket needs to go back to the bottom of the box. It's not going to go through the litter as if it were liquid

>>1555920
Couldnt it just agitate back down through the now clean litter?

>>1555679
>Wanting to expose yourself to toxoplasmosis.

>>1555677
>humans who actually spend there free time cleaning up animal excrement

fucking retards

>>1555807
Good idea, but how can I dig a 500ft hole in my yard for cheap?

>>1555740
>just toss the shit out the fucking window
Brilliant design

>>1555938
>whrrrrr

>>1556080
Train her to dig 500ft hole.

>>1555677
Unless you have the requisite skills to properly engineer a design, and have the tools to complete the job already, and your time is worth less than minimum wage, you should just buy one. I appreciate the /diy/ spirit as much as anyone on this board, but there's a time and a place for it. https://www.chewy.com/s?query=automatic%20litter%20box

>>1555677
I think machines capable of what you're asking for already exist, only additional thing I can think of is to modify a unit to work with water and sewer lines to automatically discard of the collected waste.

I use non-clumping clay litter and scoop poop once a week. The litter box is in the bathroom so I just flush the poops, which only have maybe 10-20 grains of clay litter stuck to them due to the no clumping.

>>1556080
Just hire some contracters man

Hi /DIG/ just wondering the best way to dig a 500ft hole in my yard in the cheap

>>1555677
See if you can make a cheaper version of this monstrosity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhysZu9jOt0&t=607s

The basic principle of a rotating drum seems easy enough to put together

This is gonna give you pretty much the same effect

>>1555677

You want to start of something like this, 3-part sieve :

https://luuup.com/

>>1556089
Resident Evil is on vogue this season, its time for complete global saturation!

why don't you just put more litter on the shit and piss and worry about it later

just use a hampster cage bottom 36"x18" filled with wood chips, it wolnt smell like cat, then when it looks full throw it in the fire pit . thats what i do for my bobcat.

>>1558360
500ft of woodchips?

>>1555678
not OP but i've been wanting an auto-cleaning litter box myself and came up with a similar idea as you suggest, but there's a couple problems with this:

1. the goal is to not have to deal with changing/cleaning litter. All this does is speed the process up a bit, you still have to deal with it just as often

2. once you raise the rack out, you cant get it back in without removing the litter to place it back in the bottom again

Most dogs love to eat cat shit. Get a dog. Dog eats cat shit. Dog shits outside. Don't clean up yard cause lazy.

>>1558421
The vibrator that shakes it to let the good litter fall off when the thing is up can be left on when it is sinking so that it digs down.

>>1555740

>>1560530
This.
I'm actually surprised so one has marketed one of these yet.

>>1555740
Someone edit it so it throws the cat out too because you know the little asshole is gonna be standing in it at the wrong time.

>>1560539
LOL

>>1555711
Any tips on training my cats to shit and piss in the toilet

>>1561732

I bought a cheap toilet training kit on aliexpress. The 2 fucking cats actually learned to use the toilet. It doesn't take more than like 2-3 weeks to train them.
They look so stupid using the toilet, heh.

>>1561347
because it'll scare your cat shitless

Just let it outside to do it'd business

>>1563872
>scare your cat shitless
hmm...

I recommend you not owning a cat, they're disgusting.

>>1555677
It might not work with cat litter but I've always thought of making an aerated sand litter box. Flip a switch and all the shit floats to the top, then a flapper in the back moves it all to a screened in area.

>>1564233
Didn't want to post that pic, but it's fitting I guess.

>>1564233
>>1564235
Your house would instantly fill with the smell of cat litter, cat shit and cat piss as the compressed air flings the smells into the air.

>>1564243
I thought about this, but with scented litter it would just smell like the litter. Litter does a pretty good job of clumping/holding together gnarly stuff which is why they use it for oil spills. Also with it being liquefied, it'll move the sand around more and clump it even more. Another thing you could do is make it an enclosure type and just close a removable door when you go to clean it so that it's all contained.

>>1555678
Fucking lol'd

>>1556152
>once a week
How? I have two cats and two litters, I find at least 3/4 shits and 4 piss stains a day. Luckily they autonomously decided to use the one outside to shit and the one in the bathroom to piss.

>>1564233
You could make the bottom a treadmill and have sand and shit fall to the screened area, the shit gets stuck there and the sand comes back on top from the other side, maybe two sliding panels instead of a treadmill, one on top, the other on bottom to push the sand back up. Not sure if it's worth the cost and maintenance and it would be huge compared to a normal litter box. Plus you still need to replace the sand every 7/14 days and cleaning in case your cat has the occasional diarrhea would be a pain.