Take, for example, litter box liners and cat litter bags – use these to clean the box and dispose of waste more efficiently.

As the woman struggled to keep the distressed feline in the bathtub, the cat meowed loudly, scratched frantically, and eventually clawed its way up the shower curtain before making a dramatic escape.

While that’s never going to be a reality—truth be told, even if they were capable of doing it, my cats would probably refuse the task—there is a just-as-great solution: self-cleaning litter ...

Learn more My cats hated the first self-cleaning litter box we tried, the WiFi-enabled, slickly designed Litter Robot. They refused to even enter the thing, let alone do their business in it.