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Comments (9)I have five cats, so I go through a lot of cat litter. I began getting the 28 pound buckets when I realized the uses they had. (There's no way I can lift a 40 pound bucket.) Two of them are now housing tomatoes, and one is home to a bell pepper. What I'd love to do is turn them into self-watering containers, but the reservoir thingies I see for sale are for round pots, not for square ones. I have a massively huge tomato plant in a self-watering "square foot success kit" that I got from Gardener's Supply. Be nice to make a homemade one....See MoreComposting clumping cat litter
Comments (33)We no longer have our cat, but while she was alive, we used stove pellets. Stove pellets come in 40lb bags for $10 or less. Pour a quart of pellets in a regular sized cat box, and spray it with 10-15 squirts from a spray water bottle, and a few of the pellets will start to fall apart into sawdust in a few minutes, enough to make it attractive to the cats, and the rest will take care of themselves as the cats use the box. That scanty looking quart will turn into a box full lush cat litter. It will absorb the smell down to nothing, and keep the box fresh for far longer than clay litter. We generally stretched the litter out to twice as long as clay litter. Then, we composted it all in a far corner of the landscape. If I were to get another cat, I'd use it again....See MoreA failed kitty litter composting experiment
Comments (58)Ah, well, it seems I have survived the composting process myself! Anyway, for a cheap source of compostable litter, get 40 lb bags of stove pellets for wood burning stoves. It is about $4 a bag, as opposed to $8 for a 7lb bag of FelinPine®. As for toxoplasmosis, it is not pregnancy that is the issue, per se, rather it is only a VERY small time window (two weeks in the first trimester) during which the disease is transmittable to the fetus, and ONLY if the mother has not had prior exposure. And ONLY if the mother has a new cat, who ALSO has not been previously exposed, because th organism is only present in the feces during a brief window after initial exposure. I.e. it is almost impossible to get the toxoplasmid from cat feces. In fact, a study of the organism had to be scrapped and totally redesigned, because it was based on a sample population of cat owners, assuming they would harbor the organism. Instead, they found that there was no evidence that ANYONE had EVER contracted toxoplasmosis through this vector. Instead, they found that the vast majority of cases (close to 100%) resulted from pica....See MoreSilica kitty litter
Comments (1)I think silica is the same as crystals from what I can see. I did use them for a number of years. They worked the best of any cat litter I had ever used. However, I did read and hear from the vet that they are not very good for your cats and that it is bad for their lungs. Two of mine have lung issues that may or may not be from this litter, but I have since switched to the worlds best cat litter....See MoreFreda
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