alternatives to cat litter???

Owain_Moneysaver

If you get a slotted spoon (not the same one you use for draining vegetables!!!) you can fetch the 'clumps' out and make a trayload last quite a long time.

rita-rabbit

you can buy a 10kg bag of fullers earth litter from Aldis, Liddles or sometime Asda for approx £1.60 - so unless you want to go down the natural earth route I think that's exceptional value. Note it's clumping so you just scoop solids & the `biscuits' that form from the liquids - not necessary to change whole tray.

paulwf

You also don't need much litter, the sanctuary we visit uses pellets and they just cover a corner of the litter tray and they never seem to have any problems. At home I tend to use way too much and the kitties then love kicking it everywhere.

manda1205

I suppose if you have house cats you need it, but surely if your cat goes outside you can just stop using the litter. This is what my mum has always done and what I intend to do, once my kitten is used to going outside Im just gonna move his tray closer to the door, then out of it.
I've been buying sainsburys clumping litter, 8l for £1.49, this lasts me a good few weeks, as I just scoop out the clumps and then top up when needed.

roddydogs

Use newspaper

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put a thick layer down, then tear up some strips to put on top, Free and you dont get Kittylit all around the house.

EmptyPockets

roddydogs wrote: »

Use newspaper

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put a thick layer down, then tear up some strips to put on top, Free and you dont get Kittylit all around the house.

Don't use newspaper!

For one, it does not absorb the urine very well. You will end up with puddles of cat urine in the tray, and your house will STINK. Trust me. And secondly, your cat/s will get used to peeing on paper, and they will then start to think it is acceptable to wee on anything made of paper, anywhere in the house.

Try the Sainsbury's Basic Cat Litter. It is only £1.25 a bag. We have two cats and 1 bag lasts them a whole week. We are very liberal with it though, and to be honest, if money was tight we could probably make it stretch to two weeks.

balletshoes

ourbluebeachhut wrote: »

Hi guys,we are on a tight budget and just wondered if anyone had any ideas for an alternative to cat litter?

I buy Tesco value cat litter - £1.58ish for a 10-litre bag. It lasts a good couple of weeks, changed very frequently as our kitten is an indoor one at the moment (hasn't been neutered yet). It does the job fine, and is the only cat litter we've ever used.

balletshoes

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

If you get a slotted spoon (not the same one you use for draining vegetables!!!) you can fetch the 'clumps' out and make a trayload last quite a long time.

Thats a good tip - our kitten litter tray from Pets at Home came with a slotted scooper, it works a treat for getting clumps out and letting the clean gravel back into the tray.

roddydogs

EmptyPockets wrote: »

Don't use newspaper!

For one, it does not absorb the urine very well. You will end up with puddles of cat urine in the tray, and your house will STINK. Trust me. And secondly, your cat/s will get used to peeing on paper, and they will then start to think it is acceptable to wee on anything made of paper, anywhere in the house.

Try the Sainsbury's Basic Cat Litter. It is only £1.25 a bag. We have two cats and 1 bag lasts them a whole week. We are very liberal with it though, and to be honest, if money was tight we could probably make it stretch to two weeks.

No, I dont trust you, ive used it for years, works well for 1 cat anyway, no they dont wee on paper anywhere else, no it dosent stink any more than Kittylit stinks.

EmptyPockets

roddydogs wrote: »

No, I dont trust you, ive used it for years, works well for 1 cat anyway, no they dont wee on paper anywhere else, no it dosent stink any more than Kittylit stinks.

Well you either have magic newspaper then, or a cat that doesn't pee as much as our two did when we tried it.

Oh, and just because your cat doesn't wee on paper anywhere else, does not mean that other cats won't. They will.