Kitty Litter

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  1. Ken Anderson

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    Since I use my compost to supplement my soil rather than for gardening, I compost kitty litter. It's convenient for me to do that, largely because it's inconvenient for me to haul it to the transfer station and because it seems like a waste. Cat crap will compost, after all. I wouldn't feel as comfortable using it in compost that I was going to garden with. I doubt that it would do any harm, given that my compost sits for at least two years. But still.

    Given this, I use mostly compostable kitty litter. I do occasionally use some clay-based litter because clay, after all, is a natural part of the soil. But too much of it makes a mess. I have used kitty litter made up of crushed walnut shells, corn-based, wheat-based, pine-based, and paper-based litter, although my cats don't like the paper stuff or the pine. I don't much like the paper-based stuff either because it's not scoopable. Although Amazon doesn't carry it anymore, I am using some hemp-based kitty litter that I like quite a lot, and the cats like it too. It's not scoopable but it was really cheap. Overall, I think the walnut-based stuff works the best. It's very scoopable, lasts a long time, and the cats seem to like it. With two litter boxes filled with walnut-based litter and one with the hemp-based stuff, that was ideal. If I can find the hemp-based litter yet, I think I'll stick with that for a while. The cats would urinate in the hemp-based litter and crap in the walnut-based litter. When it comes to the use of litter boxes, it's always good to keep the cats happy.

    The corn-based stuff that I used (Word's Best) works as good as the walnut-based stuff, but it's awfully expensive.
     
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    It's been years since I've had critters. I had no idea there was such a range of kitty litter materials.

    I recently saw a commercial for disposable litter boxes. I believe it's a subscription (automatic delivery) service. You receive a new collapsed box with fresh litter in it, and you just fold the dirty one up and I believe it goes out with the trash. I don't think there's a recyclable component to it...and you certainly could not ship it.

    Litter boxes are absolutely the worse part of having a cat. If I had a cat today I'd pay for someone to make this aspect convenient and painless.
     
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    There isn't much of an odor, though, if you use the scoopable litter, and empty them at least once a day. The problems were a lot worse when the traditional clay litters were the only option.
     
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