Cat litter...

[one_voice]

What cat litter do you like the most? I like scoop away, followed by arm&hammer, I don't like tidy cat. Haven't tried any others. I scoop his box everyday, and empty/wash once a week.

[auntAgonist]

1. I prefer the toilet for me... but for the cats

Tidy Cat scoopable for multiple cats.

:hi:


aA

[Curmudgeoness]

11. Touche. The question was just asking for your comment. nt

[auntAgonist]

20. sorry

I meant no offence.

humour, sometimes I'm not good at it I guess :(

[Curmudgeoness]

24. Don't worry , you were perfect with the humor. nt

[david13]

2. I'll take the cat. I'll come over and pick him up later. Get a plate

for that wall socket. That is an unsafe condition, and a code violation. And kitty doesn't like it.
dc

[one_voice]

4. No you can't have my kitty...he found me so it's meant to be...

The wall socket does have a plate now, we were in the process of switching them all. My brother is an electrician, trust me he didn't leave it like that.

[david13]

7. I was in Badger, in a little diner/bar in the mountains. I sat at the bar

but they had a deck. So I had to go out onto it to see and there was a cat, looked just like yours, meandering amongst the diners, standing against a mans leg, asking for part of the burger. I wanted to take him home too. They said he just wandered in one day and started living there.
But I doubt if he wanted to ride away on the motorcycle.
Plus, I suppose he was eating regularly there.
dc

[AngryOldDem]

3. Fresh Step.

It has been working so if it ain't broke, don't fix it. After she got declawed (yeah, I know...) we tried that Yesterday's News stuff and that didn't work. At. All.

[hifiguy]

30. I just gave up on YN

It tracks all over the apartment with the new (as of last fall) cat. Prolly cos he weighs 17-18 lbs and it sticks in his paws. My former cat was much more svelte.

And for some reason this cat seems to be under the impression that he has to dig for five minutes after doing his business like Peter Griffin looking for buried treasure in the back yard. He shreds box liners.

But he's a great cat otherwise.

[DainBramaged]

5. Tidy Cat for decades but then.......

we thought it was creating too much dust, so we tried the new corn litter by Arm&Hammer. Stuff works GREAT EXCEPT it tracks EVERYWHERE, sticks to the fur and was tossed around by the vacuum. Then the pine stuff, OMG works great except IT HURTS when you step on a pine pellet in the middle of the night. Yesterday's news , nada, a disaster. Cats had some accidents because they wouldn't use it. Tried the wheat stuff, same problem as the corn stuff, tracks everywhere even with mats and pads.


Back to Tidy Cat scoop.

[HopeHoops]

6. Basic clay. No "smelly crystals" shit in it. Just clay. The cats don't like the smelly shit.

They're quite proficient at producing their OWN smelly shit.

[Duer 157099]

8. Feline Pine (back in the day when I had a cat)

flushable!

[freshwest]

10. Made out of alfalfa, right? I think that's the one. Able to bury it outside for fertilizing, too.

[GoCubsGo]

9. World's Best Cat Litter

It's made from corn cobs. No strip-mining for clay. It's biodegradable and flushable. It clumps great and is no more dusty than clay litter. The other corn-based litters, such as the one from Arm & Hammer, also work well. After that, I like Swheat Scoop, which is wheat-based. The clay litters are all the same to me.

[Curmudgeoness]

12. I tried both World's Best and Swheat Scoop

and I hated both of them. For me, they stunk so fast, I had to replace the whole litter box full of litter a couple times a week. If I have to replace the whole box of litter that often, I will not use scoopable since it is so much more expensive. I don't know why it got stinky so quickly, whether it doesn't stay clumped well or what. I loved the concept, and buried it in the flower beds, but it just was not worth it.

[GoCubsGo]

14. You must not use a very deep layer of litter?

I always put in at least 3 inches, and replace what got scooped out. I only clean the box about once a month. I only had odor problems when my dearly-departed male pooped. He didn't bury his feces, and sometimes he'd let out some real stinkers. It didn't matter what kind of litter I used. However, my female is a digger, so everything got buried eventually, and the odor went away once she covered it. Otherwise, folks have told me that the only way they knew I had cats in the house was that they saw the cats.

[Curmudgeoness]

15. LOL, your little boy reminds me of my sister's little boy.

He let out the stinkiest poop anyone has ever smelled, and would run away so fast not taking time to cover it. Hell, no one wanted to be there long enough to deal with it, but it had to be dealt with immediately or the whole house would reek. I never saw another cat like that!

As to the depth, I also use at least 3 inches (makes it so much easier to scoop). But there was always this sicky sweet odor. I never have that with the clay scoopables, so I gave up on the environment and went back.

[GoCubsGo]

18. LOL!!!

Yeah, I know all about that smell. Even air freshener spray couldn't kill it. I really hate those stinky sprays, but the poop stink was worse. My boy didn't run away. He knew his shit didn't stink, no matter what anyone else thought about it.

I have been using clay for the past few months. My boy had renal failure, so he peed A LOT--probably ten times more than normal. Clay is cheaper than the grain-based litters, and my income has been limited to non-existent over the past few years. Now that I am down to one cat, I'll probably go back to the more environmentally-friendly stuff.

[Curmudgeoness]

23. So sorry about your little boy. I know all about the renal problem

with urination. I also just lost a cat to renal failure, so I went through that too. Your flower beds would be happy with the grain litter. Just don't let the neighbors know. ;-)

I just tried the World's Best again last month with my (also) only kitty because he had radioactive iodine treatment and that was what they gave me to use because it was flushable. I again noticed that odor though. Damn.

[stuntcat]

29. I get World's Best now too! for one of my boxes.

For my upstairs box that just one of the cats uses. She's bullied a lot by the other cats and got scared to go to the basement litterbox, so I gave her her own box, with World's Best in it. She's the only one who uses it too, somehow they all know that it's her special box. I like that I can flush it.

I use different clumping brands downstairs, depending on what's on sale or what I have coupons for, usually Fresh Step or Scoop Away. I'll probably switch that box to World's Best sometime, my seniors are used to things the way they are now though.

[applegrove]

13. I use the store brand. I scoop once every two days. I stash the stuff in a small garbage bags

and throw out weekly (two weeks ago I forgot to empty the big garbage for an extra week and boy did it smell ....don't try this at home.)

[freshwest]

16. He looks just like my last kitty!

[Cass]

17. What a cutie-pie! The only one we've used is Tidy Cat and we like it. n/t

[grasswire]

19. the BEST LITTER I've ever used in thirty years of cat parenting

It's just amazing stuff. Lasts forever! No smell! Multiple cats!

I'm saving tons of money with it, too. Well, not tons. But one bag lasts a month, for two cats and it still doesn't smell!

Healthy Pet Cracked Pine

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31KH2JH31KL._SL500_AA300

[kiva]

21. Feline Pine clumping litter.

Smells good, and my cats like it. Only problem is that it's so light and fine that it's harder to scoop. A bag lasts longer than a bag of clay of other litter, so it's reasonable enough to use.

[meow2u3]

22. Fresh Stop--the non-clumping kind!

That's the only litter that prevents the telltale odor of cat pee from pervading my living quarters.

I've tried others, including Tidy Cats, store brands, and other brands of cat litter, but the only kitty litter that does the trick for me is Fresh Step. It may cost more, but it's lightweight, has carbon to trap the stench of 2 cats (I don't have room for extra litterboxes where I live), and requires changing only once a week, despite my having two large cats.

[freshwest]

27. I was wrong above, it was Fresh Step that I always used, not Feline Pine.

[nadine_mn]

25. we don't have a choice - its Tidy Cat or he pisses on the floor

or on our clothes, carpenting ..etc

Our kitty (who is a short hair black kitty who adopted us) will ONLY use tidy cat - any attempts to try others (even environmentally friendly kinds) have ended in disaster.


Damn kitty

[hamsterjill]

26. Our rescue uses the Costco one.

Litter Purrfect. It's rated very high as far as being certain infections, etc. from thriving. In a multi-cat environment, it's proven highly effective.

[Moondog]

28. The question is which one is preferred by the resident cat(s).

Scoop Away Multi-cat is preferred by those felines that I live to serve.