Smarty Pear Leo's Loo Too vs Stainless Steel Litter Box

The Leo's Loo Too's push notification system isn't a novelty — it's a clinical tool. If your cat stops using the box or visits 10 times in an hour, you know immediately, not three days later when symptoms are severe. The stainless steel box tells you nothing about your cat's health. If monitoring matters to you, no amount of stainless steel durability closes that gap.

The Leo's Loo Too costs $700. The stainless steel box costs $40-$120. That's not a rounding error — that's a year of cat food, a vet visit, or six months of litter. The Leo's Loo Too has to deliver $600 worth of value over a stainless box to justify itself, and for most cat owners without health monitoring needs, it simply doesn't. For the subset of owners who need the health data, it absolutely does.

Most people don't realize their litter box itself is the odor problem. Plastic is porous and absorbs ammonia from urine over time — no amount of cleaning removes it, which is why plastic boxes need replacing every 6 months. Stainless steel doesn't absorb anything, so a proper wash actually gets it clean. Reddit users consistently report that switching to stainless gave them 2 extra days between cleanings and eliminated ambient odor. The Leo's Loo Too uses a plastic barrel, which means this problem doesn't go away.

The Leo's Loo Too's barrel design is cramped for cats over 12 pounds, and there's no step to help cats enter — they have to jump in. For a senior cat, an arthritic cat, or just a big Maine Coon, that's a real problem. The stainless steel box comes in XL high-walled options that give large cats the space they actually need. If you have a big cat, the Leo's Loo Too's physical design is a dealbreaker regardless of its features.