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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / July 2003looking for a new litter
Hi, I've been using World's Best Catter Litter for several years. The litter works great, but I've finally become fed up with the tracking & the dust. I have two cats, one male and one female. I have a one bedroom apartment, and every room has litter in it. The jump out of the box and decide to go on my bed - litter. The couch - covered in litter. My male cat, Otto, is all black and when he gets out of the box he's wearing four tan boots. Then he walks across the couch and leaves a trail of dusty prints behind. My female cat, Tiger, will only urinate once a day. When she does go at night, she releases quite a bit of fluid. She also sits her butt directly on the litter and her whole rear end gets soaked and the WBCL clumps all over her fur and it's a pain to get off sometimes. So, I'm looking for a new litter that: 1. my cat's won't track all over the place! 2. does not need to be clumping, although that is a plus 3. does not need to be flushable 4. is not made from recycled newspaper (tried that, they hated it) 5. is not made from wood (they didn't like some pine litter) My sister got a cat last year and I think she mixes regular clay (non-clumping) litter in with some crystal litter. I think I've seen a commercial for a litter that comes that way, has anyone tried it? My cat Tiger used plain clay, non-clumping litter for the first 8 years of her life and never minded it. Liz I find little dust w/ the WBCL, but am now (wondering if the newer formula is the culprit?) also experiencing a LOT of tracking, & the basically the same problem w. my cats - at least one cat, at any rate - post-litter box use: sitting right down on the litter while peeing, then sitting other places in the house & leaving tell-tale marks; *constant* clean-up on my part. I've tried the crystal litter. It works really well, but... do not buy Litter Pearls brand or any of the other round or oval shaped crystal litters because they *roll*, & I mean roll, all _over_ the place. It's worse than cleaning up after tracked litter! One of my cats overturns the litter box every now & again while jumping out; he overturned a box of Litter Pearls once - what a MESS! Cathy -- "Staccato signals of constant information..." ("The Boy in the Bubble") Paul Simon > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Liz >From: "Cathy Friedmann" clfr@adelphia.net >I find little dust w/ the WBCL, but am now (wondering if the newer formula >is the culprit?) I use Swheat Scoop and a woman who works for the company told me to mix a 1/4 teaspoon of vegetable oil into the litter in the box. She said to stir it really good and that will help with any dust. I haven't tried it yet, just wonder if anyone else has heard of doing that. Maybe it would work with the WBCL? Lauren ________ See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html Declawing Info: http://www.wholecat.com/articles/claws.htm > >From: "Cathy Friedmann" clfr@adelphia.net > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Lauren One quarter cup isn't much, but still I wonder if any oily footprints would show up around the house - on upholstery it could be a problem. I don't have a dust problem w/ the WBCL, just a tracking & sticking to their butts (which transfers to other surfaces) problem. Cathy -- "Staccato signals of constant information..." ("The Boy in the Bubble") Paul Simon >From: "Cathy Friedmann" clfr@adelphia.net >> >From: "Cathy Friedmann" clfr@adelphia.net >> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > >Cathy No, it's 1/4 teaspoon, not a cup. But you have raised a good point about possibly leaving greasy footprints. What I do for tracking is I bought one of those green plastic door mats that look like grass at a K-mart and I put it outside the box. It does a fairly decent job of catching the litter. Lauren ________ See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html Declawing Info: http://www.wholecat.com/articles/claws.htm circa 10 Jul 2003 12:06:41 GMT, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav, PawsForThought (darnit7@aol.comnolitter) said, > No, it's 1/4 teaspoon, not a cup. But you have raised a good point about > possibly leaving greasy footprints. What I do for tracking is I bought one of > those green plastic door mats that look like grass at a K-mart and I put it > outside the box. It does a fairly decent job of catching the litter. I have a black rubber nubbly mat- I think it's supposed to be for a mud room. Works *beautifully*. Laura > I find little dust w/ the WBCL, but am now (wondering if the newer formula > is the culprit?) also experiencing a LOT of tracking, & the basically the > same problem w. my cats - at least one cat, at any rate - post-litter box > use: sitting right down on the litter while peeing, then sitting other > places in the house & leaving tell-tale marks; *constant* clean-up on my > part. My older cat, Tiger (the one who sits) has peed on my bed a few times. I have a feeling it started because she went there to clean herself up after using the box, and got her pee on the blankets and decided afterward that the bed now smelled like the litterbox. I haven't had that problem in over a year, when I put her on her pee schedule. Every night between 10pm-midnight I put her in the box, she goes, and then I have to hold onto her to clean off her butt. > I've tried the crystal litter. It works really well, but... do not buy > Litter Pearls brand or any of the other round or oval shaped crystal litters > because they *roll*, & I mean roll, all _over_ the place. It's worse than > cleaning up after tracked litter! One of my cats overturns the litter box > every now & again while jumping out; he overturned a box of Litter Pearls > once - what a MESS! When the crystal type litter first came out I mentioned it to someone at work and she claimed that it was horrible and poisonous. Then a year or so later she mentioned buying Litter Pearls, and I reminded her of what she said previously and she swore she never said that. Today when I was talking about litter she was back to her original stand of "it's poison, stay away from it" and of course refused to admit she liked it. I may try a combination of the crystals and another type of litter and try to find the best combination. I have two boxes, so I can switch one over and leave the other with WBCL until I see what my two like. Liz >"Elizabeth Blake" <poodlebone@NOSPAM.earthlink.net> wrote in message news:behq4b$it9$1@reader1.panix.com... > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Liz I've used Scoop Away and haven't noticed tracking. Recently I switched to a new litter called (I believe) Swheat Scoop, which is a wheat-based clumping litter. It seems to absorb litter box odors about as well as the Scoop Away, but without the perfume-ie smell. I haven't noticed any tracking with this litter either. Both litters seem to produce less dust than others I've used. Bill > I've used Scoop Away and haven't noticed tracking. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Both litters seem to produce less dust than others I've used. We use Scoop Away for the two cats at work. I used to like it much better, but lately I can't find the original formula I used to get and can only find a scented one. When I pick Stinky up, she smells like the litter. Which is pretty stinky... I hate that over-perfumed scent. The cats do kick litter out of the box and the guy who runs the textbook department told me that the shelves by the litter boxes get really dusty and was blaming it on the litter. Maybe they need a change, too. I'll take a look for Sweat Scoop next time I go to the pet store. Liz Bill <atlguynsf2001@hotmail.com>, with thought and calculation, said in rec.pets.cats.health+behav: > I've used Scoop Away and haven't noticed tracking. > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Bill How do you like that? I had been using Scoop Away, but since Kami was diagnosed with asthma, I stopped because it was dusty and the fragrance would aggravate her. I tried Arm * Hammer, but it's not much different even though there's no fragrance. The thing with her tear ducts started after that so then I switched to PaPurr. It seems to have fragrance, too, but it's definitely not as dusty and she hasn't had a coughing fit for a while (though the tear ducts things is off and on). The only other one I see consistently available with Swheat Scoop. All I would need then if for her to develop a wheat allergy. LOL!  SignatureBrandy??Alexandre? http://www.swydm.com/?refer=BrandyAlx Well, would you? > Bill <atlguynsf2001@hotmail.com>, with thought and calculation, said > in rec.pets.cats.health+behav: [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > http://www.swydm.com/?refer=BrandyAlx > Well, would you? I like the Swheat Scoop, so I'll probably keep using it. I haven't tried the Arm&Hammer, but Swheat Scoop performs about the same as the unscented Scoop Away. The only fragrance I can detect with the Swheat Scoop smells vaguely like bread. Bill >> How do you like that? I had been using Scoop Away, but since Kami was >> diagnosed with asthma, I stopped because it was dusty and the fragrance [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >> The only other one I see consistently available with Swheat Scoop. All >> I would need then if for her to develop a wheat allergy. LOL! I switched to sWheat scoop because of Seamus's asthma, but found it to be a lot more dusty than I hoped, plus both cats just thought it was one big snack bowl. I switched to scoop away (unscented) and found that to also be a bit dusty, and slightly scented. Just bought some new boxes last week and they must have changed the formula. It now seems to have no dust at all, the particles are just a tad bit bigger, so even less tracking, and there is absolutely no odor at all. Nice surprise. just thought I would mention it, Teri teri <teric@enter.net>, with thought and calculation, said in rec.pets.cats.health+behav: > I switched to sWheat scoop because of Seamus's asthma, but found > it to be a lot more dusty than I hoped, plus both cats just [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > just thought I would mention it, > Teri I haven't been able to find unscented, otherwise I'd stick with it. The Papurr seems okay. Certainly lighter to carry upstairs. :) SignatureBrandy??Alexandre? http://www.swydm.com/?refer=BrandyAlx Well, would you? > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Liz I like Better Way. It can be hard to locate, but it is a very fine, soft clumping litter -- and I find almost no tracking. MaryL > I like Better Way. It can be hard to locate, but it is a very fine, soft > clumping litter -- and I find almost no tracking. I checked out their web site. I'm pretty sure I've never seen it in the two pet stores I usually go to. Is it sold in any of the bigger chains, like Petco? Liz I just switched from World's Best Litter (which I've used for 2 years) to Arm & Hammer Super Scoop. I put down a new litter box with the new litter in it so I could start switching them over gradually, but my 3 cats all ignored the boxes with World's Best in them, and used the one box with Arm & Hammer right away! It does have a strong piney smell to it, but it's very fine-grained and dense so there's hardly any tracking. And it clumps great. I wish it was flushable, but other than that it's great. No more dust and litter tracked all over the place. Mygrayne > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Liz I use the Arm and Hammer clumping type. Not too dusty, a box lasts my one cat for weeks, I never have an odor problem. I won't mess with success - he has never refused to use it. about the cat sitting in it: are you maybe putting too much in the box? I keep mine about and inch and a half deep. val |
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