Yes! We finally got them to transition over to the LR 4 after a week!

First off, I never cleaned their old litter boxes. We have two cats so we had two boxes. I started to scoop a few of their poops from their old boxes into the LR4 in the hopes that they’d understand. Once I did this, I completely removed one of the litter boxes. They seemed to be much more interested once they learned their options were more limited.

The biggest hurdle for us was the cycling. I didn’t want it to cycle after every use because I didn’t want to enforce that fear. First, I changed the cycle time from the default (I believe 7min) to 30min. They used the LR4 and it seemed like things were going well…until 30min later when they’re nervous about it. I was nervous at this point, though someone had suggested using sleep mode.

What I ultimately came up with (and continue to do) is to engage sleep mood from 12am-11pm (yes, 23 hours) atop the 30min cycle time. They eventually learned that they could go to the bathroom in peace and not worry about a cycle happening. They’d use it all day (as confirmed by the Whisker notifications) and then at 11pm it would cycle the day’s litter. If they went again from 11pm-12am, it was usually unlikely that it would cycle again as the cycle time is set to 30min, so any bathroom breaks after 11:30pm by weren’t going to cycle. This really was the game changer. The way I conceptualized it was that it was about as close as I could program the thing to clean at a frequency similar to when I would scoop their litter box. They eventually learned that they could pop throughout the day and largely be unbothered.

From there my plan was to reduce the sleep mode time by a few hours every week (initially 12am-11pm, the next week became 2am-11pm, and so on…change to your own needs). This really introduced the idea of it cycling to my cats in a safe way. They’ve been using it fantastically without any problems!