Woody Clumping Litter

I tried a new brand of clumping cat litter, which interestingly, has wood components.



The litter is brownish and bigger than the usual clumping litter (with tiny round beads). It has a faint woodsy smell which can only be detected if one is close to the litter bin, like when scooping.



Comes with its own free, wider-spaced scoop



Coco took to it without fuss...good girl!


It clumps, although the clumping is not overly strong, which may not be too bad.

The good, if you're into clumping litter:
- good odour control
- bigger-sized oval beads which reduce tracking tremendously, as they're less likely to be picked up by the cat's paws and less likely to roll about on the floor
- whatever beads that gets thrown out onto the floor can be easily picked up and doesn't get crushed instantly into fine powder/dust when one accidentally steps on them; it breaks up but into large pieces

The bad:
- the package has lots of dust, not ideal for sensitive noses! I managed to scoop up lots of dust from the base of the bin after the litter has settled down.

Overall, it's not a bad deal. Perhaps I should sift out the dust before pouring them into the litter bin next time! :PP

The perfect cat litter?

Currently, I'm using clumping litter which has better odour control, as the SO can't tahan litter box odour nor does he like the smell of pine. The regular pine pellets (which I'd used previously) is environmentally-friendly and safer for the cats, but it doesn't controlling odour well, and is actually more troublesome to remove on a daily basis.

It seems that Feline Pine has a new clumping and scoopable pine-based product which some testers have said does absorb odour well.

Hmm...has anyone seen it in the stores, or tried it yet? I may want to try it.

More information here.

Afternote: I did a little search, and it seems this product is available in Sg, though in a limited way and in a different packaging.

It can be ordered from Pet Evolution, or

via VPost - read the mixed comments (some claimed it's not so good after all :P ).

So the perfect cat litter is still elusive.

And check out this Litter Robot LRII Automatic Self-Cleaning Litter Box which looks to me, like a cement mixer.

I wonder if our cats would actually want to use a thing like that!

Cat litter control & hairball matters

After trying out several types of cat litter (coarse, fine, superfine) and a couple of methods, we find that this is the best way to minimise cat litter tracking.


(Picture shows the L-sized litter box which we alternate with the other XL-sized one)

It looks a bit cluttered with the 2 pieces of rubber floor mat, but it sure beats having to sweep the kitchen floor a few times a day!

Of course, I should have bought 2 pieces of same-coloured floor mats and better colour-coordinated them with the floor tiles, but I had only found the 2nd thinner (brown) mat much later...oh well.

If your cat uses a covered cat litter bin whereby there is only one single doorway to enter the bin, then you'll only need one piece of floor mat to be placed next to the entrance (to catch the stray bits of litter from cat's paws).


HAIRBALL ISSUE:
I've been feeding Coco basically RC Indoor 27, plus another type of cat food, just to add variety and encourage her to eat more. Currently the 2nd one to add flavour is Nutro dry, chicken with salmon flavour, which comes in interesting bigger, flat fish shapes. We'll still stick to RC as the base food, coz I find it's good in controlling hairball and minimise vomitting.

I sometimes check Coco's poo, just to test the texture, but one day, while using a clear plastic bag in its disposal, I was intrigued to actually find a small clump of cat hair stuck to the poo.


ADVANCED WARNING:
I have a picture of the poo, but it may not be in good taste to some to post it right up front, so PLEASE DO NOT CLICK THE LINK BELOW if you may be offended by it.



Warning : Scary picture ahead !!










Click here if you really, really, really wanna see the picture, or can't control your curiousity any further.




Picture of the hairy poo.

:P