Patent ID: 8028659

Claim:
A litter box used with a removable litter tray, the litter box comprising: a pair of generally opposing and spaced-apart sidewalls; a rear wall joining the opposing sidewalls together at one end thereof to define a housing for approximately sitting on a floor; a system lid pivotally mounted between the opposing sidewalls at the other end thereof; a top opening defined by the sidewalls joined to the rear wall for receiving animal waste; a bottom opening defined by the sidewalls joined to the rear wall; and a bottom wall formed by placing the housing over and surrounding the removable litter tray sitting on the floor changed to without any mechanical coupling to the litter box to facilitate removal and reinsertion of the litter tray by simply lifting the litter box vertically upward off of the litter tray; and wherein the system lid covers a collected and stored animal waste in the removable litter tray.