What a Breeze!
I followed the assimilation guide initially, placing the new Breeze system right next to the old one and stopped cleaning the old one. Interestingly our male cat (Pippin) went into the Breeze mere minutes after I set it up and pooped right in it. Awesome! I left the old litter box next to the new one for a couple of days but found that our other girl cat (Josie) was still using the old one. I figured that since Pippin was so great with the Breeze that she would be, too, once she started using it. I just tossed out the old one and left the Breeze as the only littler box. Thankfully Josie adopted it too and they're both now comfortably using just the Breeze system.
I'll admit that I was a tad skeptical about the claims of the pee pads preventing the urine smell. After all, what's great about clay litter is that it clumps around it and dries it out to kill the odor. Surely a pad that they essentially pee directly on couldn't do the same, right? Wrong. After leaving the pad in there for about 4 days (I spun it around mid-way through) I covered my face and went to go change it. I didn't smell anything terrible and decided to uncover my face and give it a distant whiff. Nothing. After over 4 days of usage with 2 cats, the Breeze's pee pad prevented all urine odor.
Instead of traditional dusty clay litter used in the pan itself, the Breeze system uses these semi-large hard pellets made of some magic material. They allow urine to pass right by them and pour down through the pee-slots in the pan that allow it to reach the pee pad below. I think the litter pellets are just for the cat's burying benefit, since they don't really prevent the odor from the poop and they generally don't stick to it at all either. The smell from the poop is minimal, but sometimes noticeable. If I make sure to toss out the poop daily, though, I notice no odor coming from the Breeze system at all, as opposed to the fairly unpleasant and constant odor from our old traditional litter box. It's pretty amazing, really.
Price-wise the Breeze is only slightly more expensive than traditional litter box systems. I would sometimes slack off and not completely change the clay litter from our old litter box as often as I should have, so technically the Breeze is a fair bit more expensive for me. If I buy the refill pee pads and litter pellets from Amazon, the cost of ownership for two pets is about $19 per month. With 1 cat, the cost would be about $14 a month if you buy those same refills from Amazon. The cost of the regular clay cat litter that I was previously using is about $10 per month instead. I'm paying nearly double to use the Breeze system, but the ease of use and near complete lack of odor makes it worth it to me.
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