Do you have an indoor cat?

[LizLemon74]

I have had no problem with the pellets after the cat uses them. I do use a little shovel to move the litter around after she urinates so that I bring up the full pellet from the bottom of the box. What I really like about Feline Pine is that there is no odor nor any cover-up smell.

Hmmm. Maybe it is worth giving Feline Pine another try. I just remember that one bad experience. I like that it is natural.

I also have a “Litter Genie” that I keep next to the litter box. Same idea as a diaper genie. Just scoop the litter box and throw the clumps into there, and close it up. It really helps to eliminate much of the odor if you stay on top of it.

The things we do for our furry friends!

 

[SubjectVerb]

We use FelinePine and scoop everyday. The litter actually chemically breaks down the ammonia in urine so that it controls odor very well. My husband, who previously had complained of the smell, agrees that it works very well.

For all the pregnant ladies: there is a test for toxoplasmosis for kitties. Ask your vet. Also watch out for handling raw meat, since catching the disease is much more common through that than by handling litter.

 

[juno24]

I use Feline pine litter. It is awesome and I just scoop up the poop without any littler and dump it in the toilet.

It breaks down from urine and is safely disposed outside. It is made of pine with no additives and is like little pellets.

I also use a pine kitty litter, although usually not Feline Pine (Publix grocers makes a much less expensive version that works just as well). I have 3 dogs in my home as well as the cat, and it is just much safer for the dogs to use the pine litter. (Dogs consider the kitty box to be their candy box, if you get what I mean.)
The pine litter has the benefit of smelling good all on its own, it is biodegradable, and there is generally little to no odor from the cat urine (the feces gets scooped almost immediately, one way or the other. LOL!)

 

[tortilla5]

I have three indoor cats, they are just over a year each, we have two xl litter boxes. We use arm n hammer multi cat. But the most important thing we use are the sifting bags. I can only find them at Walmart for about $3 per box. We sift everyday. You end up using More bags but way less liter and you never have to dump liter. The dirty liter gets sifted out and you are left with clean liter. You just add more from the box as needed. The only time it stinks is When no one will sift the bags even though it is super easy!

 

[DeniseNY]

I’ve always used Everclean. I used it with my first cat (whom I had from the time he was 3 months old to when he died at age 15), and now with my second cat.

 

[pianistclare]

Oh my goodness, dealing with litter sounds like a full time job!

:frighten:
You have no idea.
They are the sweetest things. Lovable. Just like dogs they sense when you are sad, and come to console you, mine even try to pet me.
But, it’s ALOT of work. My family always asks me:
“WHOSE idea was it to get 2 more cats???”
I thought the lone kitty was lonesome. It was a dumb idea. One more would have been fine. But when we went to pick him up, the other one was so cute.
Sigh.

 

[Shae]

No way no how

I do not have an indoor or out door cat. Reason of- cats can leap a fair height being that they have the ability to walk over your bench tops after they have just used the litter box, and may lick your dinner dishes. I have seen it with my own eyes. ewgh!!

Outside they hunt tiny wrens just for fun and play with them till they are dead.
I know someone with 9 cats and they are all over the benches, 10 and you are considerers crazy but this lady is already crazy.

 

[Book_Worm]

DH is extremely sensitive to the smell of cat litter so we lined our covered litter box with plastic liners made for that purpose, filled with Tidy Cat, scooped whenever there was something to scooped and changed the litter completely every other day and washed the box once a week in the basement slop sink.

People often commented that they were surprised when they saw our cat since there was NO odor.

 

[NeedsMercy]

Oh my goodness, dealing with litter sounds like a full time job!

It is both a science…and an art.

 

[NeedsMercy]

No way no how

I do not have an indoor or out door cat. Reason of- cats can leap a fair height being that they have the ability to walk over your bench tops after they have just used the litter box, and may lick your dinner dishes. I have seen it with my own eyes. ewgh!!

Outside they hunt tiny wrens just for fun and play with them till they are dead.
I know someone with 9 cats and they are all over the benches, 10 and you are considerers crazy but this lady is already crazy.

Hi, Shae. I have 8 kitties, and I can tell you without a doubt, that only 1 of my furbabies jumps on the kitchen counter and then only when **I’m **in the kitchen. So when he jumps, I can snatch him up quickly. Omega never, ever goes on the counter when DH is in the kitchen. I guess he figures that Daddy is the disciplinarian!

 

[UbiCaritas]

No way no how

I do not have an indoor or out door cat. Reason of- cats can leap a fair height being that they have the ability to walk over your bench tops after they have just used the litter box, and may lick your dinner dishes. I have seen it with my own eyes. ewgh!!

Outside they hunt tiny wrens just for fun and play with them till they are dead.
I know someone with 9 cats and they are all over the benches, 10 and you are considerers crazy but this lady is already crazy.

Oh, man, that would gross me out. shudder I have just the one cat, but he’s been trained from day one that any food preparation surface–counters, table, etc–are totally off limits. Of course, it does help that he’s a naturally placid boy who learns pretty quickly, but still. Just…no.

On the other hand, I have family members with a lot of indoor and outdoor cats–10 or so at one point–who never clean the catboxes, never deal with the furniture/wall/carpet inevitable peeing contests (or the underlying causes thereof) between the males, allow the cats on the table and counters…heck, one family friend rather vividly described a cat leaping onto the counter in full view of the couple and a guest and peeing on the counter while dinner was being prepared, which didn’t especially phase the couple in question. :bigyikes:

I’m pretty sure their house is going to be condemned when they die, and needless to say, you couldn’t pay me enough to set foot in there without a full hazmat suit and a non-rebreathing oxygen rig. Ugh. Where’s a puking emoticon when you need it?!

 

[jazzy0710]

We have 2 cats and usually use the Arm and Hammer cat litter.

 

[Shae]

Please be very careful, at the risk of being off topic, only slightly, if you are pregnant and dealing with cat litter trays, and if you have cuts to your skin, toxiplasmosa or something with a better spelling than me, but I do know what I am talking about, defects to the unborn via the cat faeces to the skin wounds on hands.

 

[magnumo]

:extrahappy:EQUINE PELLETIZED BEDDING in 40# bags for $7 from Tractor Supply Store or similar equine pine from feed stores lasts and lasts and lasts and is so user-friendly as to be guilt-inducing. No more clay dust.:extrahappy: Used litter=sawdust one may carefully hydrate and flush in non-septic system if it’s zero outside:snowing:, or compost, or trash, or scoopoo and flush. BWAAAHAHAHAHA! :whackadoo: Use an extra deep litter box so the young lions won’t track out pellets that are hard on bare feet. The mildly acid pine neutralizes alkaline urine. Pine vs. Urine. I’d pay-per-view that fight.:christmastree1: Pine wins every time. And pine pellets are somewhat antiseptic. If I smell it, I either scoop it or kick the box to knock pellets on top.:dancing:

 

[UbiCaritas]

Please be very careful, at the risk of being off topic, only slightly, if you are pregnant and dealing with cat litter trays, and if you have cuts to your skin, toxiplasmosa or something with a better spelling than me, but I do know what I am talking about, defects to the unborn via the cat faeces to the skin wounds on hands.

Toxoplasmosis. Yep, nasty stuff. While less commonly mentioned, this is also why pregnant women should, if possible, avoid gardening: cat feces are quite common in garden soil. The parasite is spread by ingestion, though, not by contact with cuts and the like. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis#Transmission) Some might brush that off and say, “obviously I’m not going to be ingesting cat feces, so what’s the problem?” In short, not using a dust mask or something similar while cleaning the catbox can let small particles get on your face and…well, you get the picture. Not washing one’s hands properly afterwards is also risky, but I don’t know anyone normal who wouldn’t wash their hands after scooping a catbox. Ew.

 

[pianistclare]

:extrahappy:EQUINE PELLETIZED BEDDING in 40# bags for $7 from Tractor Supply Store or similar equine pine from feed stores lasts and lasts and lasts and lasts.

I am RUNNING to one of those places.
Thanks for your informative posts!!!