This mat has been the best purchase I’ve made for my 9 week old kitten. It’s large enough to sit both my large hooded litter tray and three food/water bowls on top. The texture of the mat stops his jelly wet food from being ground into it and allows it to remain on the spring top and dry out so it can be very easily cleaned. The grooves within the mat has stopped him from tracking the food into my carpet. If I had a room just for my kitten I would have probably carpeted the entire floor with these mats but thankfully it’s been saving my carpet
Edit: we’re a month into it’s use and I’ve switched my five star rating into...well i think it may be better if i look for a new mat, or as one user said, a large flat tray. Earlier i commented on its uses as a mat with food on top but my rating has changed due to its used as a litter mat.
Two weeks into owning my kitten we switched up litter brands, a better clumping litter but one that tracks. The mat does nothing to stop the tracking on to my carpet. This was a relatively non issue, i bought a mini handheld vacuum that i leave next to the mat and hoover up whenever i see the tracking. The woven material of the mat sometimes traps these litter particles but that’s okay, nothing my dyson can’t hoover up.
The biggest issue was earlier this morning, i left the room at quarter to seven with kitty waiting outside the bathroom for me, came out at seven to find him still there but on entering my room I see he has managed to smear a chunk of poo on to the mat. I dont know if the woven material helped scrape efficiently because there was no poo on my actual carpeting or on his bum and paws when i baby wiped him but the smushed poo on the mat is hard to clean. I cleaned off all the relatively solid bits and then used a disinfectant wipe on the rest and then scrubbed it down with my dr beckmanns pet carpet cleaner, as it has bristles that would hopefully get into the mat and touch the base. I returned to amazon to see the cleaning instructions for the mat, only to see that it can’t be machine washed. Great. A litter mat that would undoubtedly get some pee and poo on it, even if not to the level i just had, that can’t be machine washed. I’ve been spot cleaning it thoroughly for the last month but even if he hadnt pooed all over it and into it today, i would have wanted to give it a good wash for hygiene reasons once a month but i guess not???
| Product Dimensions | 60.96 x 88.9 x 0.5 cm; 1.02 Kilograms |
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| Item model number | 5206-B |
| Colour | Brown |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Quantity | 1 |
| Item Weight | 1.02 kg |
