questions..thinking of changing my cats litter product

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Originally Posted by moosmom

I also use woodstove pellets. They are so much cheaper than Feline Pine but they have the same purpose. I can get an opened (damaged) bag of woodstove pellets, 40 lbs for about $8. Works just as well as the Feline Pine.

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I get pine pellet horse bedding (brand: Equine Fresh) at the feed store for $5/40 lbs. :D

You can get wood stove pellets at any feed store.

Pine Pellets horse bedding??? I'll have to try it. I'll let you know how it works.

Yesterday's News is a decent litter, low dust, and scoops out fairly nicely but I don't think it does much of a job for odor. We use that one at work for the declaw surgery patients.

I'm strongly against the crystal litters ever since we had a client who switched to one of those and her cat went bald, itched like crazy, stopped eating, and the skin was horrible shades of red and purple! The cat took several weeks to get over the worst of the allergic reaction. Since then I've steered people away from those clear crystal litters.

For our clients we use a plain unscented clay litter from Tractor Supply called 'Paws & Claws', here it's only like $3 or less for a 25 pound bag. Doesn't do a great job with odor control, and doesn't clump although scooping it out isn't as hard as plain clay litter, but it's cheap and because it's a plain unscented litter we don't worry too much about our patients having allergies to it. I find it reasonably dusty myself though.

For my own cats I used Fresh Step Scoopable for 7 years until they changed the formula, the cats didn't like it, and I thought it stunk fresh out of the package. For the last 5 years or so I've been using Arm & Hammer Multi-cat Scoopable. It does good with odor control, the cats like it, but it doesn't clump as well as the Fresh Step used to so I have to change out the litter boxes a bit more often. I usually buy it on special in the bonus sized boxes, $11-12 for 35 pounds of litter. I don't find it as dusty as the plain clay one we use at work.

I use Tidy Cats scoopable for multiple cats immediate odor control. It really keeps the odor down but it is dusty, though, and it tracks a lot. But I Swiffer and vacuum every day anyhow, so no biggie.

I am still using my recycled paper pellets, breeders select, and finding it the best, although not quite as economical as the old one,however it is darn hard to get sometimes,which fustrates me.