Litter-robot 3 Connect

£545 / litter-robot.com/uk

There’s not enough poo in this magazine. Allow us to redress the balance with this intelligent self-cleaning litter tray: smell-free, hassle-free, and stylish enough to be the faecal point of any modern living room.

You might be wondering how it works. Well, to start with, your cat trots up the little steps and does its unmentionable business in the usual way. Then, once the Litter-robot detects that the coast is clear, it begins its sifting cycle: the whole central sphere rotates slowly through 360°, allowing the clean litter to trickle through a grille while the clumps of soiled stuff remain and, a few seconds later, slide down into the waste drawer. Then, as the rotation continues, the clean litter falls back into the tray via another grille, nice and level for the next visit. Magic!

For obvious reasons you’ll need to fill this with the kind of litter that forms good solid clumps… and you will have to empty the waste drawer every now and then, unless you can train the cat to do it.

UP WITH THE TURDS Yep, of course there’s an app. It lets you tweak settings, manually trigger sifting cycles, check the level of the waste drawer and monitor your cat’s toilet-visiting regularity.