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World's Best Cat Litter - NOT!!!

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Teddybear Lover - 13 Jan 2004 01:11 GMT
I've had it with WBCL.  I've been using it for 2 and a half years.  I liked
the fact that it was flushable, didn't cling to the paws like other
clumpables, didn't have a perfume odor, and it wasn't clay based.  But
there's always been a tracking problem with WBCL.  Especially the dust.  My
one cat loves to dig towards China when she goes pee-pee.  When she comes
out of the box, her paws are covered in yellow dust (she's a black cat),
and her face is dusty too.  The last bag of WBCL I got, and the one
previous to it, had moths and moth larvae growing inside!  And now that I
have a Dyson Animal vacuum cleaner, I get to see just how much of the cat
litter dust has been distributed around the house.  It's quite amazing.
The collection chamber is coated with WBCL fine yellow dust every time I
vacuum the carpets.

So I'm trying an experiment and switching to SWheat Scoop.  Odor control
really is not an issue, as I don't let things sit in the box for long.  I
scoop as many times as is required.  But the dust issue is really
intolerable.  I dream of the day when I don't have to vacuum one vacuum
cleaner with a shop vac, to get out all the fine yellow cat litter dust.
PawsForThought - 13 Jan 2004 12:57 GMT
>From: Teddybear Lover tl@nospammail.org

>So I'm trying an experiment and switching to SWheat Scoop.  Odor control
>really is not an issue, as I don't let things sit in the box for long.  I
>scoop as many times as is required.  But the dust issue is really
>intolerable.  I dream of the day when I don't have to vacuum one vacuum
>cleaner with a shop vac, to get out all the fine yellow cat litter dust.

I use Swheat Scoop and I really like it.  The manufacturer told me if I find it
too dusty to add 1/4 teaspoon of vegetable oil and stir it.  But I don't really
find it's dusty.  One thing I do is I use those big black garbage bags as a
liner so the litter doesn't stick to the box.  Or you can spray the box with
something like Pam.

Lauren
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BarB - 13 Jan 2004 22:32 GMT

>So I'm trying an experiment and switching to SWheat Scoop.  Odor control
>really is not an issue, as I don't let things sit in the box for long.  I
>scoop as many times as is required.  But the dust issue is really
>intolerable.  I dream of the day when I don't have to vacuum one vacuum
>cleaner with a shop vac, to get out all the fine yellow cat litter dust.

Dust is my main complaint about most litters. I've been using a litter
made of corncobs by Anderson called "Clump'N Flush". There's absolutely
no dust and it's about half the weight of clay litters. The only problem
I see with it, besides expense, is that it doesn't clump as hard as
other litters and it might not do well in an automatic box.
I've found it at Petco but not Petsmart.

BarB
Dennis Carr - 14 Jan 2004 04:44 GMT
> I've had it with WBCL.  I've been using it for 2 and a half years.  I liked
> the fact that it was flushable, didn't cling to the paws like other
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> out of the box, her paws are covered in yellow dust (she's a black cat),
> and her face is dusty too.  

You know, I've never really had much of a dust problem with feline pine,
except around the boxes where there's the usual "scatter".

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JLove98905 - 16 Jan 2004 01:01 GMT
>The last bag of WBCL I got, and the one
>previous to it, had moths and moth larvae >growing inside!

I'm totally devoted to WBCL, but I'm appalled by the moth larvae!

Regarding dust-  I wonder if you can do the vegetable oil trick suggested
earlier to WBCL? And have you tried putting tracking mats around the box to
catch the dust? Also, have you considered getting an air purifier? Probably the
only zero dust litter is going to be silica.

-Jen
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