liz stevens
Lovin' The Homestead
I can't take credit for this. I'm just so happy that we found out about an alternate odor eliminating bedding for horses to use in place of cat litter.
We have a new rescue cat that let's say has just been nothing but hell in his litter box. It was getting to the point we were considering taking him back to the pound because we were starting to spend a considerable amount time and money on changing out the cat litter to try and stay ahead of the odors. We tried adding baking soda, and everything under the sun to keep the smell down.
He was also tracking the clay litter from the enclosed litter box out on to our wooden floors, which were also starting to develop scratches.
We have been using only horse bedding pine pellets that we bought at TSC in place of the clay litter. We were a bit skeptical because they look very much like wood heating stove pellets. We were also concerned with saw dust being tracked through the house as we have tried to use saw dust in the past as an alternative litter and ended up with the mess.
The bag says that they absorb odors and boy does it. We've had no strong urine odors like we were having with the clay. As soon as the urine hits the pellets they absorb and break down into saw dust but it stays odor free and moist enough not to track.
The 40 lb bag was only a $1 cheaper than the 40 lb bags of clay litter. The real value comes in not having to change it as often, lasting us at least twice to three times as long. We have also discovered that it doesn't take as much since it seems to expand when it breaks down.
Best of all since it is totally bio degradable we have sectioned off a separate composting area just to dump the litter box. That's something that we couldn't do with the clay litter as we would of ended up in a mound of gravel. Yea we were adding the other to the trash and felt bad about sending something else off to the land fill. We will just use this compost around the flower beds and not in the vegetable garden for sure.
During the first week, we did mix the new pellets with the old clay litter to be sure the cat would take to it, but he did and has been using the pure pellets for the full two weeks now.
We are now going to try and find these pellets in bulk supply as we feel we could probably save even more money.
We have a new rescue cat that let's say has just been nothing but hell in his litter box. It was getting to the point we were considering taking him back to the pound because we were starting to spend a considerable amount time and money on changing out the cat litter to try and stay ahead of the odors. We tried adding baking soda, and everything under the sun to keep the smell down.
He was also tracking the clay litter from the enclosed litter box out on to our wooden floors, which were also starting to develop scratches.
We have been using only horse bedding pine pellets that we bought at TSC in place of the clay litter. We were a bit skeptical because they look very much like wood heating stove pellets. We were also concerned with saw dust being tracked through the house as we have tried to use saw dust in the past as an alternative litter and ended up with the mess.
The bag says that they absorb odors and boy does it. We've had no strong urine odors like we were having with the clay. As soon as the urine hits the pellets they absorb and break down into saw dust but it stays odor free and moist enough not to track.
The 40 lb bag was only a $1 cheaper than the 40 lb bags of clay litter. The real value comes in not having to change it as often, lasting us at least twice to three times as long. We have also discovered that it doesn't take as much since it seems to expand when it breaks down.
Best of all since it is totally bio degradable we have sectioned off a separate composting area just to dump the litter box. That's something that we couldn't do with the clay litter as we would of ended up in a mound of gravel. Yea we were adding the other to the trash and felt bad about sending something else off to the land fill. We will just use this compost around the flower beds and not in the vegetable garden for sure.
During the first week, we did mix the new pellets with the old clay litter to be sure the cat would take to it, but he did and has been using the pure pellets for the full two weeks now.
We are now going to try and find these pellets in bulk supply as we feel we could probably save even more money.
