she doesn't want to play opie she wants you to return the favor
she says i got you now you gotta give me
look look at tara with her arm around him she's like do me do me and she goes
to bite it goes to fight her opie come on man give cara some lemons
poor tara i'm sorry i guess go ahead and bite him
yeah go and bite him okay there you go oh boy here we go here we go
tara i didn't get that out for you i got that out for opie you're not going for a ride today
oh but you're going for a little ride today this morning it's early yeah you're not broken but
you do need to get fixed okay he's mad at me i'm not giving him breakfast this morning you can't
have any solid food we had to quit last night at 10 and no breakfast this morning poor guy
i know i know i don't know if he'll show it off but look at this opie has his mickey id tag
we had a friend in florida go to the park and make this one for him so now he's got his mickey tag
and of course tara's got her beautiful uh mini tag there yeah your brother's gonna go to the
the vet you don't know that's a bad word yet you don't know that but can i get you to go in here
can we hop in here and go for rides what a good boy no we're not playing no we're going for rides
it's actually not shorts and and t-shirt weather it's uh 36 degrees this morning but
i'm very thankful to have tater tot i turned on the smart start to warm up that get the
seats and everything warm in there if i had the motorcycle i wouldn't be able to do something
like this it would be very inconvenient to move the entire rv over to the vet's office so
i'm gonna go take care of this and i'm gonna miss my little guy today oh man it is butt crack of
dawn what do you think opie dopes hey where am i gonna be in here you have to because i don't
want you crawling all over the car buddy all right nice and warm in here at least
all right well opie's in there they're gonna call me here later today and let me know everything
went away everything went okay one thing i'm doing differently with opie and tara on her next
appointment too opie's getting a full uh blood test panel opie's only 12 weeks but i literally
want to know from the start all his numbers and make sure his t4 counts okay and same thing with
tara later unfortunately here in illinois it's still one of those weird weird states
uh you are not allowed in the building they had to meet me halfway and i did drop
opie off right there then they had to come pick it they i can't come near anybody i can't come inside
uh it's it's a little strange um because it's not like that everywhere else in
the country but illinois is still just not ready to move on with life and uh
i guess i don't know i i feel weird about it but there's also nothing i can do because i can't be
there during the they're gonna put him under you know for the for the surgery and stuff like that
so there's there's nothing i can do really it's just it sucks it's like come on guys let it go
no we got projects back at the rv today though so i'm gonna try to stay busy and keep my attention
on other things i will head back to the shop and check in on tara uh one of the things that many of
my subscribers were asking me when i introduced uh tara with jax months ago was how i was gonna deal
with uh pet litter litter boxes in in the rv with two cats nobody thought it was possible turns out
um i had to scoop three times a day three times i just scooped a litter box uh but i was able
to keep the smell down moving forward as hinted at by the thumbnail and title of this video i've done
something crazy and that is what i'm gonna show you first when we get back all right this is it
the craziest thing i've ever done for a cat before i got the litter robot 3 connect
wi-fi ready it's uh let me show you what their slogan is your days of scooping are over
litter robot yeah up to 21 days you never have to scoop cat poop again as you can see i got
cat poop and a scooper there so the kitties use it you see the little green light come on there
a little blue light in there the kitties use it and then five or seven minutes after they exit
the entire thing self-cleans and then every once in a while like i said it says three weeks you
have to dump this out but that's all you gotta do there's no more scooping you don't do anything so
i'm gonna demonstrate what happens here i'm gonna drop some terra turds in there okay
and then uh once the cat leaves like i said it has a uh some kind of a timer on there
okay so the timing light is already lit saying it felt something in there so the cats leave
i'm gonna go ahead and do a manual cycle to speed this up
we'll stand back and as you can see the whole basin here starts to rotate
and i want to show you what happens so as it rotates most of the litter is going to go
through that screen but not your clumped solids um after they use it so there it goes halfway
it's filtering out all the litter here comes some solids that are gonna drop
and then once it gets up a little higher this opens up in here
and they will fall down in the compartment thus i don't have to scoop anymore it's magic
how cool is that now it'll go back around i'll back up a little bit
to a certain point it kind of pushes out this material right there to kind of help get anything
that was stuck there but it's not supposed to stick because uh something about five to seven
minutes after the cat goes it clumps the right amount and you're okay also there's a seal i'll
show that seal around there so there's no smell you don't smell a litter box anymore
and as we come back around it's going to bring the litter back around into the surface here
it's also really quiet so i don't think it'll annoy the cats or scare the cats too much so
that's a good thing i'll zoom in here again try to make it dark so the light comes back on well
i guess it won't when it's in motion but yeah the litter falls back through back onto the rubber pad
there's a fill line on here i'll show you it tells you how to maintain the the litter level when it's
when it gets back to straight it goes a little bit farther on purpose so that the litter levels out
see the line and then it stops and then it comes back to center and as you can see
i don't need to scoop anything it is an automatic scooping litter box uh is it worth the price tag
well time will tell i i don't want to say yes or no i'm really testing this out i'm not saying you
should go out and buy it because i did i'm saying i want to test it out and see how practical it is
i have never seen anyone ever get this and try to put it in an rv so how is that going to work
now i've actually moved it a few times i used to have it up in the corner up
there but i've got the christmas tree there now so i've got it here in the office space
uh the the directions when you get this there's a certain way to introduce this to your cat
as far as putting your old litter into it keeping it unplugged so it doesn't rotate for the first
couple days letting the cats get comfortable with it i mean the motor does make a sound
however i am happy to report that both tara and jax used it with no problems on the very first
night and i'll show you that gotta give him a little bit of privacy here but uh terry used
it while opie was was nearby finding out what was going on and uh tara did set off the sensor when
she entered it it's i think it's based on weight uh how much weight is compressed on there uh funny
enough when opie went in when it was his turn he did not set off the sensor and he still today
does not set off the sensor to do the automatic cycle we should do enough there tara she's so
confused she's like where's my brusher where's my brusher however you know with with two cats right
now it's clean but but i think mainly you know if opi doesn't set up the sensor then eventually when
tara does go and use it and she sets it off it's gonna clean everything anyway but if i'm nearby
again you can always just push the cycle button to manually make it cycle through and it i think
it'll work okay some of my concerns here are gonna be with the sides and you do have to
physically clean things um this tray i've tried a couple different things but let me show you
what i'm working on here i i already ran out of the litter bags so i'm just using a grocery bag
they're kind of expensive so right now i'm trying this little tupperware container which you can see
obviously isn't working i need a bigger tupperware container i was thinking of something i just take
out take outside and dump it when i go dump it but uh what's the other thing there's also an empty
button so you don't have to physically remove the litter if this gets down or starts to get
too stinky you don't have to physically remove it you literally push the empty button and it
does a different type of cycle where it removes all the litter puts it in that pan and then you
take it out to the trash and then i have a little scooper over there i can just scoop the tidy cats
right into it it does say there's some litters that you can't use so for reference this is what
i have been using just sold it petco i think even walmart sells the regular tidy cats 27 performance
this is not the lightweight stuff uh this is the tight clumping material and this seems to work
really really well in the machine however again because i'm trying to do this in an rv i notice
something different about rv life and that is once i turn the key and start driving down the road
something in the sensor feels the vibrations and it thinks the cat just used the litter box
it will literally cycle every seven minutes while i'm driving on the road uh which is
not going to work so what i'm going to do actually i think it arrived yeah
yep there it is okay so this is a little outlet switch what i've been doing is simply unplugging
it from the wall it's just standard electrical 110 volt so i would just unplug it from the wall
anytime i'm gonna drive but this will make it so that of course the switch will be on the
opposite side hmm but still that'll make us i can just reach in turn it on and off every
time i drive and every time i get parked they don't really use this thing while i'm driving
anyway so um tara pretty much still hides she still hides she's being weird right now
she's like it's quiet dad where's my brochure where's my brochure dad but yeah anyway um i
will definitely be updating you here in about a week or two just to tell you how things are going
and how it's all working and everything but so far i don't think you can really put a price on not
scooping anymore like this i don't we can throw this away tara we don't even need that anymore and
get the stinky thing out of my face dad trying to be honest here and think of any other drawbacks to
this because you know not bending down getting on my knees and scooping three times a day
what if you had a kitty that wasn't feeling well or went to the vet and you needed to make sure
like well how's their stuff looking is their solids okay are they going number one's okay
um with this automatic system you're not physically gonna see that you're not gonna be as
intimate with your cat's poop anymore uh because it all goes into there where you don't even see it
um if that were to ever happen and i and i needed to check to make sure that one particular kitty
was doing well um i would simply turn off the automatic filter thing and i would just scoot
from there that that one day or those two days to make sure i'm in a situation where i travel
and live with my cats full-time you know i don't i don't leave the cats alone for eight or nine
hours a day um i'm with them all day and and all night so i mean it's easier for me to keep track
of things but this thing is kind of big i'll uh stand back here so you can see my office area
and uh the litter box right there i mean i've got it in the corner i also have a little foot stool
it's like a ramp for um elderly cats or possibly kittens so it pops on right there but it actually
sticks out too far so it's in the shop right now i'm not using it in this i'm going to bring it
with me because after i'm done with the christmas tree this front area is going to change litter box
is going to go back in that corner right there with the steps and then i'll have some storage
right here but man i love that beach scene on that 4k 70 inch tv makes me want to go to florida
other than that if uh tara or opie use a litter box while i'm working here at the computer i have
some of this little spray i can just spray in there real quick and actually what i've
been doing is after they get out and i'm on the computer i just do a manual cycle to get rid of
the smell real quick uh it's and it's working just fine you know i don't have any crazy complaints
what do you think terterra what do you think nobody to play with you i'm sorry girl
look who i got i got baby brusher him's back oh you missed your brusher opie dopey doo
oh my goodness i missed you so much go see your sister okay oh my gosh you can't you gotta be easy
though you gotta be easy oh my goodness did you guys miss each other that was so precious i missed
you tara missed you so we got his release stuff we got some medicines also they said everything
checked out let's see here hang on i didn't get a copy of it well anyways all of opie's uh
blood levels and everything is t4 count everything is in the norm there's no need for concern there
he's all good for an entire year so his will renew in november and tara's will renew in
april i think yeah i'll check that but no strenuous activity for two weeks so but you guys
gotta be easy okay tara no rough play okay uh opie didn't get a cone um tara had to wear a cone for
two weeks but i guess with boys it's kind of hit and miss um i need to keep an eye on it as long as
he doesn't start licking them and and tearing at his area there that got neutered then he's fine if
he starts messing with it then we might put a cone on him later but i'm just glad to leave that place
uh i'm glad that they took care of opie and got everything we need but oh my gosh guy it just
gives me a headache how paranoid and ridiculous they are for no reason it's like i went to the
front door i called the number that's on the big stop sign on the front door call the number
i called on the phone i said i'm here to pick up opie guys told me to come pick a sir we need
you to get back in your car uh we cannot open this door until you are back in your vehicle
and then you can call us and we will release your cat out the door and tell you when the door
i i swears some of these places are just doing this
just to make a scene it's ridiculous man i cannot wait to get out of here i really can't but i had
to get this done so in the future i'm gonna go to normal places that allow me to enter
and be and be with my pet but i'm just happy he's home opie you don't need to steal her food
your food's over here oh you gonna trade okay guys well i'm glad to see you eating good there
that's pretty good i just called the place again they are going to email me the uh blood blood test
results so i can have just a good baseline and everything even though they said it's okay i was
like well i paid for it i'd like to have a copy of it you know like like i had jack says going
poop okay he's going poop he's going poop anyway thanksgiving's on the way who's excited for turkey
and gravy and getting fat again we'll all start our diets in january again okay cool tara and opie
and i will have another fresh video for you in two days here on wednesday guys have a good one bye
you