I tried searching this but wasn't having much luck with what exactly I was looking for!
I switched my cat to a Breeze litter box about a month and a half ago, and I LOVE it. He adjusted very quickly (he's never been picky about his box), and it's been amazing. He has some health problems that causes him to pee a LOT (volume-wise, not frequency) and the Breeze has been a game changer. The scooping litter was a constant battle to keep up with because the amount of urine, and it never didn't smell terrible. Breeze's pads holding the urine: genius. No smell. Cut down the scooping I have to do about 12 times over!
Anyway, I decided to experiment with the set up a bit. Going with what I'd seen others online recommend time and time again, I ordered both some airsoft pellets and some feline pine to mix with the actual Breeze pellets that came with the box. My dude likes a lot of litter in his box, so he was quite the happy camper with the additions.
However, I was NOT. The airsoft pellets are okay. They're light enough that they kind of "hop" out of the box and travel much further than any pellets, but that's a low-level annoyance compared to...
The pine pellets. Oh my god. I didn't make the connection that obviously I don't want any sort of absorbent litter. Things went bad very quickly. HUGE amounts of wet sawdust all over the box. Clogged up the vents underneath and couldn't get through it with vigorous stirring. It got nasty very very quickly, and I just ended up spending an hour painstakingly hosing the sawdust out of the box, unclogging it, hosing out more, over and over again... Never.again.
So, I'm looking for something like the genuine Breeze pellets, but... not. I don't have complaints really about how they function, except he also tends towards looser stools and I imagine we're going to go through pellets pretty quickly. I liked the idea of something biodegradable... and also not as expensive. =/ Am I stuck with these, or does anyone have any other inventive ideas about what else I could use?
I switched my cat to a Breeze litter box about a month and a half ago, and I LOVE it. He adjusted very quickly (he's never been picky about his box), and it's been amazing. He has some health problems that causes him to pee a LOT (volume-wise, not frequency) and the Breeze has been a game changer. The scooping litter was a constant battle to keep up with because the amount of urine, and it never didn't smell terrible. Breeze's pads holding the urine: genius. No smell. Cut down the scooping I have to do about 12 times over!
Anyway, I decided to experiment with the set up a bit. Going with what I'd seen others online recommend time and time again, I ordered both some airsoft pellets and some feline pine to mix with the actual Breeze pellets that came with the box. My dude likes a lot of litter in his box, so he was quite the happy camper with the additions.
However, I was NOT. The airsoft pellets are okay. They're light enough that they kind of "hop" out of the box and travel much further than any pellets, but that's a low-level annoyance compared to...
The pine pellets. Oh my god. I didn't make the connection that obviously I don't want any sort of absorbent litter. Things went bad very quickly. HUGE amounts of wet sawdust all over the box. Clogged up the vents underneath and couldn't get through it with vigorous stirring. It got nasty very very quickly, and I just ended up spending an hour painstakingly hosing the sawdust out of the box, unclogging it, hosing out more, over and over again... Never.again.
So, I'm looking for something like the genuine Breeze pellets, but... not. I don't have complaints really about how they function, except he also tends towards looser stools and I imagine we're going to go through pellets pretty quickly. I liked the idea of something biodegradable... and also not as expensive. =/ Am I stuck with these, or does anyone have any other inventive ideas about what else I could use?
