Van Ness Enclosed Sifting Cat Litter Pan, Giant Blue

I’m still trying to figure out if I would just rather scoop the litter. I thought this would be convenient but it’s pretty mush a similar amount of work as scooping. Also, one of the clips to hold the top on doesn’t work on the one we got. It’s still a great box, the size is great. Works well for our two cats. But not really less work.

I recently rescued two semi-feral cats who quickly became 5 (three kittens were born a few weeks after the rescue) and also have 2 male cats. My male cats were fine with the litter box I had but one of the rescues likes to scratch and scratch and she was tearing the litter box liner, defeating its purpose. I love that it has the sifter so Scratches can't get to the liner to shred it. I use a more expensive litter that does not clump, but dries, so this works great for me. I don't use the sifter, I still scoop the solids out. I wish I could order another sifter and cover and I would use the extra box and have 2 sifter boxes.

I see what they were trying to do but you're better off just scooping yourself. For all the trouble I have to go through just to scoop the litterbox you might as well jusy rely on the old fashion hand scooper. Its pretty heavy to to have to change boxes everytime you want to scoop so if you have a bad back would not recommend. Its a more thorough clean through and allows you to flip your litter more accurately I guess? The door was nice but when it arrive it would stay on and kept snapping off each time one of the boys went in or out. Its really spacious though I will say that.

I love it but over time the pan will start cracking. The sifter is made of thicker plastice but the pan is of thinner material. I used duct tape around the edges that have cracked. They should make the pan with as thick material as the sifter. The edges on top need to be thicker.

Good product, but I cannot get the swinging door to stay on. I bought this because my cat loves to scratch the litter out of her box. I have to figure out a way to keep the door on even if it’s with duck tape.

Terrible messy, no go way to transfer waste from the box to the trash. Messy... would give 0 stars if I could. No way to return the item either?

Somehow, the top piece is just slightly too big so the sifter part sticks up and won’t allow the door to swing open. I know this because in the early hours of the morning I could hear my cat scratching and scratching the meowing to get out of her litter box! So now it’s just an expensive litter box with no door.

We've owned several of the L and XL versions of this litter box. The Giant blue version is very flimsy. The front latches do not catch at all and one of the rear latches doesn't stay closed when the box is lifted by the handle. A real disappointment, particularly since Van Ness has been our go-to for over twenty years and nine quadruped family members.

I wanted this because the cats would throw litter everywhere. This definitely prevents that but the door wont stay connected. I have to separate the sifter and spare pan from the pan with litter because they are so hard to separate when it is time to clean. This is so thin and flexible that its hard to dump litter into the sifter. I will probably use a scoop to clean because the sifters holes let too much through and its a struggle to separate sifter from the spare pan.

I really wanted to like this litterbox. It does allow you to filter and dump the waste quickly....However, now my house smells like catbox. :-( Prior to this litter box I would scoop and put in little bags to prevent odors. With this box you're dumping a lot from a wide opening so I couldn't put it into a bag to prevent odors...unless I want to go through a trashbag a day or each time I dump. Also, my one cat likes to fling his litter when he's digging and burying his mess which gets litter all over my floor. :-( So unfortunately I am going to just stick with scooping my top entry litter box. For the function of quick emptying it works but I can't stand the smell or liter on my floors.