Van Ness Large Sifting Cat Litter Box CP5

I’ve used all kinds of litter and litter boxes. With this box, I’ve used pellet litter and clumping litter. We have a multi-cat household.

Pellet dust and clumping litter stick to everything, so leave the sifting tray sandwiched in the middle.

Pellet litter. Clean out the clumps, pouring/sifting over the grate into the other box. Dump dust.
Note: The grate will often clog up with pellets and the dust doesn’t sift out well without vigorous sifting. With 2-3 inches of pellets, it is a lot easier to sift in small increments. However, this makes me wonder if normal hand sifting would be easier.

Clumping litter. Pour/sift over the grate and dump the clumps.
Note: Easier than pellets.

The litter box looks bigger than the picture. There are 4 pieces; 2 blue trays, a cream colored sifting tray and the barrier. The barrier curls in at the top just a bit and leaves less room for the cat to turn around. We have cats that prefer to go in the corner and the barrier helps keep nasty in the box and not on the floor.

I like and hate this box. I wish it was bigger, taller and wider, and the grate was pellet friendly. I feel with the size of this box it would suit a kitten or small cat well. Cleanup with clumping litter is easier than digging up chunks, but it’s more expensive.

The sifting feature is not ideal for clay litter. The litter just gets stuck in the grate and creates even more of a hassle to clean. I ended up removing the sifting tray altogether and just using it as a regular scoop litter box. It probably works much better with pellet litter since those just dissolve and fall to the bottom.

Other than that, I do like this litter box. I’ve had it for about a year and it hasn’t started to stink or wear down (I do use plastic liners in it though). Overall, I would recommend this litter box if you use pellet litter for your cat. If you use clay litter, you’re better off getting a regular one without a sifting tray.

Holes are slightly too big, some wasted litter because of it. For some reason, even with the sides on, my cats still manage to get litter out of the box. Holes too big, box not big enough.

Size is great very simple to use all you do is unlatch the lid from front and back lift the sifter shake it a bit then removed the 2 litter boxes. Now I actually will take the 2 litter box and scrape the remaining droppings and urine soaked litter in the empty box then use a empty litter container put one of those 4 gallon garbage bags in it so I can dump out the leftovers from the cat. It works great that way. The lid is easy to unlatch and latch. So what you get is a lid 2 litter boxes and the sifter part. I liked this one so much got 3 more so I have 4. As soon as I clean out the boxes the smell disappears and also never hurts to put a little fresh litter to mix in with the old litter also. Otherwise wonderful product

Really happy with this purchase. Product is exactly as described.

Had similar one but bigger and too many parts to deal w. This may be a tad too small or I put too much liter in. I think I’ll only need like half liter next time. So what I do is I put a pee pad under the first holder so the pee finds its way down and stays off the liter. I use clay so it’s good for this and less smelly and no clumping mess. When I scoop the box I lift it up and replace the pee pad. No issues and no smell. Love this way!!