Question for Jen and others with multi-cat households

[leslie flenner]

don't know if you saw my note here or not but find the best clumping to be the walmart brand, "Special Kitty". It's the least dusty so far and least tracking (but they all do both, there's no gettting away from it I guess.) It's hard for us to keep it in stock at home because all the shelters and foster homes on Boston's north shore use it too. It's a matter of beating them to the Walmart's before they wipe them out every week. It clumps the best too. Tip for all- If you spray a Pam cooking spray kinda thing inside the box just after washing, litter sticks hardly at all for several weeks. I was brought up anti-aerosol but have yet to find this product in a non-aerosol form. Killed me to buy it but I use it extemely rarely because no need to wash boxes much with this litter. It does need improvement as do all but there is no perfume smell which is a plus.!!

[shais_mom]

I have been using the clumping litter and trying to be diligent about scooping. It is doing an awesome job with the poo smell and Kylie is covering it again. Which she hasn't done often.
But my question is I notice that sometimes it clumps in the bottom of the pan. The back of the bag says there shouldn't be any reason to do a total litter change but with it sticking to the bottom like that, I can't imagine doing that. I am wondering if it is b/c I use liners? I wonder if that could have something to do with it. Should I stop using the liners? Altho I don't know what I would do with the bag and a half of liners I have left but that is a small price to pay.
Thanks!

[leslie flenner]

I don't think liners would have much to do with it because I don't use them and the best scoopables still stick and clump to the bottom over time. the older the litter is, the more it sticks. Even when you add fresh, there's still some of the used mixed in there. I recently learned from QueenScoopalot to use a puddy knife when a few cats prefer to pee on one corner of the pan, if ya don't want carpel tunnel! I TRY to remember to spray the cooking spray (Pam stuff) before filling with fresh after washing!

[NoahsMommy]

We have eight cats and five indoor cat boxes and one in the outside enclosure as well.

I scoop the boxes a night, before I go to bed every day.

We have three of these, and really like them:



One of these in the bedroom, for Olivia:



And just a regular box where Phoebe and Samson like to pee. We are going to get this and put it there instead:

[Uniqueviking]

I have 4 cats and 2 boxes, and I scoop whenever they've used it, which would be several times a day, but it only takes a minute

[QueenScoopalot]

Leslie's friend Jan here. I have a large number of potties, and use a mix of clumping and clay depening on who uses them. I have 3 huge boxes in the basement (two restaurant bussing boxes&one guinea pig cage bottom). These could actually count as six boxes as they are about 3' x 18" roughly. The rest of the house is mainly a combo of covered boxes, and for new rescues regular pans. I use clumping litter for about half the group, and clay for the other half. Newbies get clay as it's dumped constantly especially w/kittens. Man they seem to poop and pee out far more than they take in! My special needs kitties like Willy & Kirby etc. have soft scooping litter as it's easier on their limbs (which are crippled from birth defects). All in all depending on the time of year it can take anywhere from 20 minutes to 2 hours. Right now I'm low on rescues, so the poop and urine accumulation is one grocery bag! I gauge the numbers by litter accumulation, and I'm at an all time low! YAY! Well that's not counting the clay that gets dumped every other day.....then it's a 50lb bag. *SIGH* P.S trying to fix my typos doesn't work! clay depending on...