BrewerGeorge
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After owning cats for most of my 44 years, I've finally found the perfect litter solution and I wanted to share it.
Go to one of the pet stores or Amazon and get the Tidy Cats Breeze. (You can probably find coupons online still.) Throw away all the stuff that comes with it and go to Tractor Supply or Rural King or similar and buy the compressed pine horse bedding. This is the same stuff that's sold as Feline pine, but without the 400% markup - I got 40 lbs for $5. Fill the Breeze box with a couple inches of the pine and let the cats at it.
When the pine pellets get wet, they break up into sawdust and fall through the grate into the tray. Once a day I scoop out the solid waste and rake the litter to make sure all the sawdust is down in the tray, then pull the tray and dump it. Since it's just sawdust and not clay, I can dump it into the toilet and flush. I add a half or 3/4 of a cup of new pellets into the box and I'm done. It's about 3 minutes a day to care for. It never gets dumped because all the used-up litter falls down and gets removed every day. I suspect the 40# bag will last me two or three months with 2 cats using it.
This thing is fantastic. It's transformative to the cat owning experience. No urine smell whatsoever, absolutely none - and no weird perfume cover-up smell either. The only possibility of smell is a particularly bad BM, but then I just scoop it early. If the stools are loose, the pellets break down and clump the sawdust to them, firming them up and making them scoopable. The pellets are too big to track much and any that fly out as they scratch around just go back into the bin. There's no gross clay dust, either. The cats love it because it's much cleaner and they smell better overall with none of that "just came out of the litter box" odor about them. Litter costs have gone from $10/week for expensive, clumping litter to $5/quarter.
If you have cats, I cannot recommend this more highly.
Go to one of the pet stores or Amazon and get the Tidy Cats Breeze. (You can probably find coupons online still.) Throw away all the stuff that comes with it and go to Tractor Supply or Rural King or similar and buy the compressed pine horse bedding. This is the same stuff that's sold as Feline pine, but without the 400% markup - I got 40 lbs for $5. Fill the Breeze box with a couple inches of the pine and let the cats at it.
When the pine pellets get wet, they break up into sawdust and fall through the grate into the tray. Once a day I scoop out the solid waste and rake the litter to make sure all the sawdust is down in the tray, then pull the tray and dump it. Since it's just sawdust and not clay, I can dump it into the toilet and flush. I add a half or 3/4 of a cup of new pellets into the box and I'm done. It's about 3 minutes a day to care for. It never gets dumped because all the used-up litter falls down and gets removed every day. I suspect the 40# bag will last me two or three months with 2 cats using it.
This thing is fantastic. It's transformative to the cat owning experience. No urine smell whatsoever, absolutely none - and no weird perfume cover-up smell either. The only possibility of smell is a particularly bad BM, but then I just scoop it early. If the stools are loose, the pellets break down and clump the sawdust to them, firming them up and making them scoopable. The pellets are too big to track much and any that fly out as they scratch around just go back into the bin. There's no gross clay dust, either. The cats love it because it's much cleaner and they smell better overall with none of that "just came out of the litter box" odor about them. Litter costs have gone from $10/week for expensive, clumping litter to $5/quarter.
If you have cats, I cannot recommend this more highly.
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