Innovation-driven cat litter and cat health
While cat litter remains a functional staple for most cat owners, technology is elevating this everyday product into a new stratosphere.
Boosting health
Pet hygiene and safety issues are core concerns of pet owners. Now, innovative, smart solutions are helping pet owners to boost both their pet’s health and their own.
Not only is technology playing a crucial role in providing resource-saving solutions, but it is also helping fulfil pet owners’ pursuit of ease and convenience. And now such technology is also changing the way we care for our pets… and manage cat litter.
Smart appliances
Smart home appliances are not only popular among human users; they also offer pets some exciting convenience. Take Catlink: this brand offers smart products designed for cats.
Its flagship product Scooper is a self-cleaning automatic litter box for cats, equipped with healthcare functions such as AI voice/app control, self-cleaning, cat weight tracker, and data analysis for cats’ health management. Moreover, the product can quantify the volume of litter present, which is helpful in letting pet owners know when they need to buy more products.
Similarly, PETKIT’s smart litter box for cats uses a rotating drum to separate cat poop, while the built-in air cleaning device automatically sprays a cleansing vapour. Using a mobile phone app, cat owners can choose smart settings to clean the litter box. The app also enables owners to check the cat’s toilet status at any time, including the number of toilet trips, stay time, weight and other data.
Colourful litter box
The Japanese company Threes has developed a colour-changing litter box called Signyal, which can detect a cat’s health abnormalities by analysing its urine. Abnormalities present in the urine will cause the cat litter to change colour. For instance, light blue indicates a high concentration of alkaline, while green suggests potential feline diabetes. This can be caused by too high protein levels. After first use, cat owners can mix the litter back together and reuse it for a month, before replacing it with a new batch.
Innovations such as the colourful litter box can help diminish pet owner anxieties, while also helping them save money by way of preventative pet care.
CBD as innovative stress solution
CBD pet products are one of the newest additions to the cannabis market. Such products are similar to CBD for people. Brands are currently marketing their CBD as a solution for unwanted, stress-related cat behaviours, such as scratching furniture or urinating outside the litter box.
The claim that CBD is the answer to stress-related behaviour, will help cat owners identify treatable conditions of their pets, and consider CBD as a possible valuable treatment for their pets.
Having said that, cat owners with pickier feline friends might well be worried about administering CBD to their cats. CBD formats that can be added to products that have already proven themselves as readily edible for cats, will ensure that even the pickiest cat can be fed CBD.