Funny

Recommendation?

We use tidy cats stone pellets with the pee pads liner.

Not environmentally friendly, but it's the first time I've actually not minded dealing with the box.

We never used normal litter, it's terrible. We used to use the tidy cats brand scoop able stuff. And that worked... Fine. Solids came out easy enough. But urine was either too gummy if you tried scooping it too soon. Or it broke up into stinky little bits too small for the scoop, if you waited too long. And God forbid the cat dig to the bottom before peeing, so the clay glues itself to the bottom of the bin, amplifying the goo/break problem.

And eventually, no matter how well you scoop, the little bits of urine build up and start to stink like ammonia, until you have to throw all the litter away and wash the box. Which is extra unpleasant if it's winter.

But the stone pellets and pad? The solids are easily scooped. And the urine is trapped in the pad, locked in, never smell it.

And no matter what you do, cats will track litter around the house. But the stones are so big and heavy that they almost all fall off the paw before they make it 5 feet from the box, so the area to clean is much smaller. And the stones are surprisingly less annoying to step on.

My friend has the cedar pellets, and it's better than litter, yes, in some ways. But I still smell the ammonia.

I will say we've never tried the crystal cat litter, and some of our other friends swear by it.

Yeah, we buy an amazing blend of sand. Leaves no odors, no dust, and has great clumping.