i would highly recommend the pine pellets.

i started using it a little over a year ago when i started to socialize pretty girl. i used it for a couple of reasons; first was that since it was wood it seemed like she would "take to it" easier since she was used to going pee in the woods and second since she had a nasty upper respiratory infection right after i trapped her i was worried about any dust aggravating her nasal passage.

i love it since it truly is eco-friendly, does a fine job at odor control and you can't beat the price - i pick it up at a feed store for $7 per 30 lb bag.

 

i would highly recommend the pine pellets.

i love it since it truly is eco-friendly, does a fine job at odor control and you can't beat the price - i pick it up at a feed store for $7 per 30 lb bag.

I use wood pellets (with sieve trays) for all my cats and raise the kittens on it. Wouldn't use anything else.

Works very well, no odours, very economical, no dust, minimal tracking.

 

I just starting using World's Best and I really like it, but it's expensive - especially with three cats. So far, I've been mixing it half-and-half with the cheap stuff I have left (Special Kitty, Tidy Cats (on sale)).

 

I just use those refillable jugs you can get at Petco. It is just clay clumping litter. I tried wheat litter for awhile and my apartment smelled like a barn.

 

I've always gone with Fresh Step clumping. With 5 cats, it's economical, and luckily, I don't have any issues with URIs or asthmatic cats. I've used it for years with my cats, no side effects.

 

I have used Fresh Step Clumping litter with all my cats for years. I love it and have never had a cat that wouldnt use the litter box and the next best thing is you can NEVER smell my house (and its small)! :thumb

 

yayhappens...so instead of scooping, you just dump it out? With liner? Hmmm. interesting. And Beautiful cat, btw. Although, they are all beautiful. I love cats with points.

 

I tried worlds best (the scented one) a couple of days ago and they haven't used it yet.
Maybe I'll try the unscented one.

 

I buy Precious Cat on Amazon for $15 with $6 shipping for unlimited bags from Petco. The bags are 40lbs. I generally order 200lbs at a time. It is the best clumping litter that I have used (other than Cat Attract). Low dust, no smell.

 

Oiy... I couldn't stand to let pee-dust sit in the bottom of a pan for half a week! Doesn't that smell??
Besides, Paizly won't use pellets... I did try it once, and I think they hurt her leg stubs (born without paws, just little stubs for back legs). I've also heard of other cats taking pellets out of the box and batting them around like hocky pucks through the house and getting it all messy! LOL

I use Fresh Results (sold at some Wal-Marts). It's basically Nature's Miracle, but half the price and smells just like Feline Pine. So it's a mixture of both. Oh, and it really IS 99% dust free. That's why I quit using clay, is because scooping - let alone dumping new into the box - put up too much of a cloud of dust and I always coughed and gagged with it. Fresh Results/Nature's Miracle only seems to have a LITTLE dust when you pour into the box.
I scoop twice a day. Once a month, I dump everything out, scrub the box with bleach, vinager, rinse with water and put a new layer of litter in.

 

I've also heard of other cats taking pellets out of the box and batting them around like hocky pucks through the house and getting it all messy! LOL

Frankly, that happens to my Meatball couple of times. But she didn't take out the pellet intentionally. It's when she jumped out of the box and kicked a piece out, then she will play a bit kitty hocky with it. But since it's only once a month or so, and only one piece of clean, whole pellet, it's really not getting to the point of making the house messy

 

I didn't know there were different kinds of litter. Here we all use clay, and goes without saying that the bathroom floor gets wet and the wet clay sticks to the floor, making it very hard to wash the bathroom floor, and impossible to sweep. You guys are lucky. Marie mentioned Tidy Cats as cheap litter - here Tidy Cats is the most expensive and almost no one can afford it.

 

Marie mentioned Tidy Cats as cheap litter - here Tidy Cats is the most expensive and almost no one can afford it.

Tidy Cats is NOT cheap here (that's why I said "on sale"). It was about 40% off a while ago at Target, which was a bargain, so I stocked up.

 

Oh, and I am thinking about trying out horse pine bedding which I hear is identical to Feline Pine and a fraction of the cost. Any of you cat aficionados use this?

THIS is exactly what I am using. I bought them at Rona's garden center for $5 per 40lb bag. You can't beat the price

There is no odor except when my cat just pooped (but the smell is gone in minutes), no tracking, no dust, and all natural. It is not clumping, but I just need to scoop the poop and flush it in toilet, then throw the entire box and put new pellets in once a week. So the maintainance is very minimal, and its very clean comparing to the clumping litter that people keep add new litter on the used one. Yes, it's a bit of waste but with price like that, who cares

The only complaint I have with it is its seasonal, only available in spring-summer. So I usually buy 10 bags at once, which is enough for 2 cats to last for a year.

 

YAYHAPPENS, thank you for the pictorial. I LOVE pictorials! More pictures people!!!

So this pan is only available online and its forty bucks with shipping? Yikes. It seems so simple. Lets just say that at the moment...I have to be as frugal as possible.

Also...litter liners. I like the concept. But has anyone ever used regular plastic bags as opposed to specific cat litter box liners? I think I need to finangel something because I can't justify buying cat doodoo bags at the moment. LOL.

Right now I have Dollar General's cheapo cat litter and Arm and Hammer's Double Duty. Before this, she was using the gravel in my driveway. LOL. I hope she continues to be an unpicky cat!

 

This thread has picture of my cats using the litterbox, together. LOL. I don't have a sifting box as YayHappens, because the one they offer online is too small to my like. I don't use liner either, just throw everything and wash the box every week. No odor, ever

http://www.catforum.com/forum/41-me...um/41-meet-my-kitty/147985-i-know-you-good-friends-but-you-really-shouldnt.html

 

Awww they must get along pretty well.

 

I used to use World's Best- I absolutely loved how it worked, but HATED the smell. So I changed to Cat's Best. They love it and it's so easy to scoop. It's £8 per 10lbs which lasts us 5-6 weeks with four litter trays and two cats.

 

I'm a die hard World's Best user myself. My only complaint is the coating of dust it leaves. I didn't notice it when I had my litter box in the spare walk in closet...until I moved. Then I saw all the stuff in there coated in dust. In my new place there isn't a deep hidden spot for the box so I'll be dusting the items around it more often (more lived in area) so it won't be as much of an issue.

I quite enjoy the smell of it. My family raises Ring Necked pheasants and it smells just like the feed (corn based) my brother grinds for the birds. As soon as I open a new bag I take a big wuff of it and smile.

 

How about precious cat. Anybody like that?

 

I think I have used Precious Cat, if that's one of the kinds you can buy at Walmart. To me, Fresh Step, Special Kitty, Precious Cat, Tidy Cat, they're all pretty much the same. I used Fresh Step for so long, though, that now I can't stand the smell. Plus, it leaves the scent on everything else in the house.

I really like World's Best.

 

World's Best is okay. But it's too dusty for me, and while it doesn't smell BAD, it's just not the type I want (like Krissy said, smells like a bird coop... always reminded me of my neighbor's shed where he raised racing pigeons).

I also tried SWheat Scoop many years ago. I don't know if they changed their formula, but it used to turn into mud-dough at the bottom of the box and was a pain to scrape off.
Then I used Pa-Purr... which was nice, except the scoopable kind is scented, and smells like the perfume old ladies wear. I haven't tried the non-scoopable, but the bag says it doesn't have the scent added in. I liked the feel of it..more soft sand than gritty clay. Pa-Purr is available on Amazon.com and is a little expensive...but good enough if you're into the whole environmentally friendly junk (it's recycled newspaper)

 

Precious Cat Ultra and Cat Attract are the best clumping litters I've found. There is surprisingly little dust and no smell.

I'm currently trying out Fresh Step Multi-Cat Unscented and so far I'm pretty unimpressed. It's WAY dustier than Precious Cat and it is not really unscented. I smell a slight perfume every time I scoop the box.

Since one of our cats refuses to use clay/clumping litter, we also keep one litter box filled with crystal litter (Fresh Step Crystals, which I am very happy with),

You might find the comparison of cat litters on CatInfo.org helpful: http://catinfo.org/?link=litterbox#Types_of_Litter:

 

I've been a huge Everclean fan for years, but recently tried Precious Cat and it works just as well, but is much less dusty...so I'm a convert. I don't think Precious Cat is available at Walmart.

I think World's Best is the World's Worst...couldn't deal with the smell after a week or so. Way too expensive to be dumping and refilling the boxes every week...I just want to scoop and top off (which I can do with Precious Cat or Everclean) but couldn't do that with WB.

 

I've had trouble getting precious cat ultra here. I wanted to give it a try in the second litter box. I called two mom and pop stores and they said they'd try to get it but... no news yet.

Petco SAYS they ordered it from their distributor but three weeks later and it hasn't been delivered there yet...

 

World's Best is scoopable, Lisa. Unless they also have a non-scoopable type.

 

Yeah...I'd scoop it but after a week or so, the remaining loose litter would still stink and topping it off with clean litter didn't help. Since the boxes are in a room I don't spend any time in, I'd try and stretch it out but after 3 weeks it became unbearable (translation=the whole house stunk) and I had to dump both boxes and refill.

On the other hand I have a friend with 7 cats and she loves it.

 

Need some help on this litter thing. Have had ate all my life and I'm 48 years old. For the past 18 years I use arm and hammer clumping clay. I switched over one litter box to worlds best.
I'm getting alot of clay foot prints all over my wood floors. I have shinny wood floors in all of the house except the bedrooms. Litter box is in the closet of a spare room. They have a litter pad and the carpet in the room. How does it get tracked all over the house?
I know it's the Savannah and not the Himalayen because it never happened in the 11 years before. I clean box everytime I walk buy it.
I've never done none clumping litter before so I don't even know how.
I might try precious cat crystals. Doesn't look like clay. Think I will have the same problem.
Money is not the issue but ease of use is number one priority.
Thanks
Mark

 

I was using a cheap clay clumping litter from costco but it was dusty and I wanted to go natural so I tried worlds best and swheat scoop. I didn't like the smell of worlds best and swheat scoop was more dusty than the original litter I was using. I am currently using precious cat which is much less dusty but still clay unfortunately. The cats love this litter though, so for now I might stick with this one.