[Sol]

I use clumping litter for my adult cats. Kittens however shouldn´t have clumping litter since they tend to eat litter. And I guess everyone can imagine what happens in the tummy of a kitten when the clumping litter starts to clump

But when the kitty stops eating litter you can start using clumping litter if you want to. I find clumping litter to be the easiest way to keep the litter box clean and fresh, but that´s me.

 

[Sol]

i was using clumping and had to switch to clay when lola came home with me. i just switched them both, because lola likes to use big kitty's box. actually, it's quite devious... she poops in it and then pees in hers so it's nice and clean... :twisted:

vet told me the same thing, clumping litter is dangerous when injested. it's actually no more work. i still scoop out hard stuff, and change once a week. they seem to really like the larger texture, anyway.

Clumping litter can be dangerous for kittens but an adult must injest a whole lot of litter to get sick and adult cats normally don´t eat litter. The litter that gets stuck in the fur is not enough to harm a healthy cat.

 

[Sol]

I use clumping litter and have never had a problem with it. I find it to be much easier to clean up than the non clumping.

Back when I just had Fallon, I used the pine pellet litter and I liked that alot. It helped to cover up the smell and was supposed to be good for the enviroment.... Don't know how true that is but it's a bit more expensive than the clumping stuff so once I adopted more cats I had to switch.

I would like to be able to use pine pellets (for enviromental reasons) but me cats refuse to use it.

 

[Sol]

well. it's quite easy to see why clumping litter is bad.

that stuff clumps to be hard. it gets stuck on a kitten/cat's paws. cats naturally lick everything off. so they ingest it.

you're not even meant to flush clumping litter cos it blocks plumbing. (my toilet overflooded once). now can you imagine that inside your cat's intestine's? how is that stuff meant to get out of your poor kitty's body?

a key ingredient in clumping litter is betonite (or something liek that) and basically that's the stuff they use to make cement. that's like concrete inside a cat's body. especially bad for kittens.

and all the dust. you'll find it dusty when you pour clumping litter. now your cat will like to go in and pee on this nice clean litter. they breathe in this dust that contains clumping ingredients. not good for lungs.

i used to use clumping litter until i read more on it. now i switched to the regular non clumping litter (can't afford the organic environmentally friendly stuff.) it's more difficult to clean, but it's a living creature's health we're talking about.

I don't have any problems witht dust with my clumping litter. The brand I use doesn't raise dust.

I have both clumping and non-clumpig litter at home for the moment since I have kittens (they use the litterbox with non-clumping) and I find it harder to keep the litterbox clean and fresh with the non-clumping litter.