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I will investigate dr elseys rr low dust. I think I used one of their litters quite a while ago to try and get a cat attracted to it but I don’t remember much about it. Hope it’s not too expensive because I have to cut costs.I use Dr. Elsey's Respiratory Relief clay litter. I tried WBCL years ago and ended up with little bugs from it (moths). Took forever to get rid of them all. I clean the box several times a day - our cat Buddy, prefers his super large box over the two smaller ones (that are still big). For a scoop I use a large slotted spoon. Solid metal with fairly small holes. Its nice and solid, does not flex and easy to clean. I also have a small cheap metal spatula - solid thin metal to use when he does pee on the side. It scrapes off the stuck kitty litter easily. The Dr. Elsey's is heavy enough that the pee does not have time to sink to the bottom and it does form nice easy to scoop balls. I fill it with about 3 inches of litter - you have to have a deep enough layer of litter to keep the pee from getting to the bottom. Of course if your kitty loves to dig and dig to the bottom before he pees, then no matter how much litter you put in, it won't help. It isn't dust free, but if I change the box out 100% every few weeks, it keeps the dust to a minimum. Its not too dusty out of the box, but with use it does break down eventually into smaller pieces and that does get dusty. Cleaning it 100% out often enough keeps this from happening. I find if I use a too light weight litter, Buddy tracks it more. I am about to try one of those litter mats with the holes in it to see if that will help with the tracking. I'd love to be able to cut down on my daily vacuuming a bit. All of Buddy's litter boxes are made from big storage bins that I cut (sanded the edges) a door into. They are cheap, very high sided and big enough for a big kitty to use.
I have a friend that tried Okocat. It made her allergies a lot worse, and one of her kitties also developed respiratory allergies/issues from it. She tried a few other things - wood, paper, etc. and none of them worked for her. She is back to Dr. Elsey's.
Wow moths you are scaring me. I have never had any bugs in worlds best cat litter tg! I guess so far it is probably my favorite but it does seem to absorb moisture and odor overtime especially in the humidity so that has to be watched. It tracks all over the place so when it does aggravate me too. It’s also expensive.
I’m going to measure how much litter I have in cinnamons boxes to make sure it’s the right amount. The 2 clay litters I just use which were terrible were very heavy so I don’t know what the issue was with them but the P was just sinking to the bottom and making wet cement on the bottom of the pan.
I have never tried a spoon or spatula before for that.
I am using in the bedroom a very large plastic litter box that you might want to try if you ever need another one it’s open, not too high sided but higher than normal and it has nice little slots at the end I put your scoop and whatever else you want to put in there.
Someone recommended it here and it’s made life easier because the big cats like Merlin and Fred don’t kick as much litter all over the place and they’re not pooping over the edge because the box isn’t big enough lol.
I tried getting the top closing litter box, before Fred, but no one will use it… Quinn used it a bit and then rejected it. I was hoping it would stop the tracking all over the place.
But they all seem to love this gigantic box. I have a larger stainless steel one downstairs and only one left with a plastic hood which is what Quinn in Merlin were sharing for quite a while before I started taking the other guys in. I don’t think they will use a higher sided one anymore although they have started using the hooded one again which they had rejected for a while.
I’ve never had cats that are so fussy about litter boxes as these guys are.
that is interesting your friend also had the same reaction to okocat. I couldn’t figure out what was going on with that but there were two versions of that- one was very light and tiny and the other one was a little bit heavier. I think the one that was lighter caused more problems for me maybe, I don’t remember now. But it was enough for me to stop using it.
The worst one I used for me in terms of functionig was the yesterdays news types because I could never figure out what are you supposed to do with the urine in there- they claim that you could scoop it out of there but it didn’t ever get to stage where it could be scooped and it was impossible to get the poop out of there without taking huge clumps of litter as well. I used the crystals too and Sybil used to like them or at least used it sometimes but for some reason they didn’t work- I think because the P started smelling very bad, I can’t remember now.
I also used one that was made out of walnut shells for a while I don’t know if they still have that one, that one was pretty good allergy wise but I don’t remember what it was like in terms of clumps and things like that. But it literally got all over the place very hard little pieces. I don’t vacuum very often so it’s just sweeping all day long sweeping up the cat litter and other stuff lol.
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