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| Brand: LitterMaid
Category: Pet Products
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $28.79
You Save: $11.20 (28%)
New (3) from $28.79
Avg. Customer Rating:  90 reviews
Sales Rank: 3004
Media: Kitchen
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 6.8 x 3.1
MPN: LMT100A
Model: LMT100
UPC: 027043661760
EAN: 0027043661760
ASIN: B00005MF9V
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Fits LitterMaid self-cleaning cat boxes and most other cat boxes | | • | Provides roomy privacy for cat with or without litter box | | • | Six sides keep litter confined to box area; unzips for easy access | | • | Made of waterproof vinyl; cleans with soapy water | | • | 29 inches long, 18-1/2 inches wide, 16-3/4 inches high |
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Product Description
The LitterMaid Cat Privacy Tent is the perfect cover-up for any litter box! The LitterMaid Cat Privacy Tent also help keeps litter contained and gives your cat the privacy she likes. Six covered sides: Keeps litter confined to litter box area. Privacy: Provides complete, roomy privacy for your cat. Durable: Washable cover unzips for easy access for litter refills and cleaning. Convenience: Door flaps snap open for convenience. Fit: Fits the LitterMaid Self Cleaning Cat Box and most other litter boxes. Easy to assemble: Easy to assemble plastic frame.
Amazon.com Review
Designed to fit around LitterMaid's self-cleaning litter boxes (or any litter box), this roomy tent provides tabby with privacy and can be set up as a den for play and sleep even without a litter box inside. It's made of waterproof vinyl and can be wiped out with a damp cloth or washed in warm, soapy water. Used around a litter box, the six-sided tent confines litter to the box and keeps it from being scattered around. It unzips all the way around to provide easy access for a litter box to be refilled or cleaned. The tent measures 29 inches long, 18-1/2 inches wide, and 16-3/4 inches high and assembles easily without tools (instructions included). --Fred Brack
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| Customer Reviews: Read 85 more reviews...
 You would think paying a lot gets you a lot... nope August 8, 2008
First off, the concept is great. Honestly, this is great for the cats and containing the litter fling. Now the reality:
1) Is this really manufactured by Littermaid as well? I know it is, but can someone not take accurate measurements? Assembling the plastic rods was annoying enough, but for the joint connectors to be so dang brittle they snap? That was the first call to them asking for a free replacement.
2) We have the Littermaid Mega Elite pooper scooper. The dang thing doesn't fit in the tent. The cartridge box hangs about half way out. Hello? Does Littermaid not design these for their own product? Also, this was designed so poorly to move the box in and out of the tent. You eventually have to do a cleaning of the entire contraption, and they sure don't make it easy.
3)That little flap on the bottom of the entry is utterly useless... and zipping the tent back up is like trying to put on a pair of jeans three sizes too small just after you at at a buffet for 3 hours: Utterly impossible. I had to literally take the tent apart and take a quarter of an inch off of each rod to assemble it in a fashion that I didn't think the tension was going to implode the tent on my poor cats.
3) The little window flap for the box switch and electrical: Why is it on the left? This is annoying. I need it on the right wall. This is just not convenient. If anything this flap should be on the back of the tent.
Recommendations:
If you buy this thing, take about a quarter of an inch off of each rod BEFORE you attempt to assemble it. If you don't, you'll drive yourself nuts trying to zip the dang thing up and about the point where the zipper fails on you the first time, you'll snap one of those joints.
I modified the tent: I put a piece of wood in the bottom of the tent to allow for easier sliding of the box in and out. I snipped the little lip off to accommodate this.
I also attached a vent in the upper right of the tent at the back wall with a exhaust fan of sorts to draw the kitty smell away and out. I have three little computer fans and a plastic flexible dryer vent that links to a port and draws the smell out a vent like a dryer. Yeah, I'm in it for the long haul but you appreciate this when the windows aren't open and the house is stuffy.
Lastly, if Littermaid really cared, they would pick up on this by now. They haven't and we still buy the darn thing since it is the only one. All I can say is, if it breaks, call 'em up and tell 'em to replace it. Don't throw away the Customer Service paper that's in the box.
It's huge!!! July 22, 2008
The tent is incredibly big, I own a fairly small litter tray for my kitty, and well, it ocupies about a third of the tent itself.
It makes a fairly good job at keeping odors under control and keeping sand contained. Depending on your cat's sloppyness you'll have to clean it about once every week.
It has a very tall top, and putting it together is rather tough, you have to pull tightly for the top cover to fit with the zipper at the bottom cover. Besides that, it is worth the money and the wait.
Does not fit Mega Elite July 18, 2008
I recently purchased a MEGA Elite Littermaid litter box with the Litterworks stand. I bought this tent thinking the tent would fit, but, alas, it did not. I own two other Littermaid boxes and have this tent on them. The newer one required some shortening of the tubes that make up the frame so the top and bottom would zip together properly. I do LIKE this tent when it is modified and used for the smaller Littermaid boxes.
 Cat Toilette - Saving your home from feline spraying June 25, 2008
This product, when assembled well, is great for the messy cat in your life. It contains litter, urine spray, feces, litter and odor effortlessly. I have purchased two of these tents and learned the hard way that it needs to be carefully assembled. My first tent, despite one broken rod, lasted many years and I threw out versus cleaning it again. For those who have had assembly issues, I can offer the following suggestions: a)carefully assembly rod frame applying pressure on both sides of the connector when sliding rods onto the connectors, if you apply pressure at the top of the rod instead of close to the connector, the rod will snap the connector off b)if you need to remove a connector from the rod, gently twist the rod back and forth on the rod until it loosens, otherwise the rod will snap the connector off c) after assembling the entire frame of the tent, test fit the vinyl tent without zipping it closed d)if the tent doesn't look as though it will zip, place the vinyl tent in the clothes dryer for a few minutes to soften the vinyl (allowing it to be stretched to fit the frame) remove quickly and place the softened vinyl tent around the frame and zip it closed.
 Impossible to zip May 24, 2008
LitterMaid Cat Privacy Tent
I couldn't get the two tent pieces close enough together for zipping.
So I disassembled the poles, zipped the two pieces together, then reassembled the poles inside the zipped tent. I couldn't get every pole attached, but the tent is standing and I use it.
The tent flaps make it very difficult to empty the litter tray.
I used a pair of scissors to make some cuts in the tent opening to fix this problem. Much better.
Now that it's standing, I like that that it is containing the cat litter. But I woudln't buy it again.
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