Cat litter - 4 indoor only cats

gettingready

Actually even more expensive... £20 for 20 litres

http://www.organicfeed.co.uk/Products/Organic-Poultry-Feeds/Baby-Chick-Crumbs.aspx

2 bags of 30 litres (so 60 litres) of wood based cat litter are now £16 at PAH....

starryshell

I have two indoor-only cats, a prince and princess who do not like anything but clean, soft sand-like litter under their oh-so-delicate paws .

After trying catsan and a few others, I came across Classy Cat from Zooplus



Two of the 15kg bags lasts me about 2.5 months, with daily scooping and refreshing as needed. I've got two litterboxes, one of the mammoth ones shown earlier on the thread and a small one.

For the person who said their cat hangs their butt over the side when peeing, one of mine does that in the little box. I think it is just a bit too small for her - and she does it when she backs up and feels something against her tail that's sticking out. I think she uses that as a judge to see where she is in the box, so I make sure nothing is close by the box that her tail will back up into.

CheeseCat

gettingready wrote: »

Actually even more expensive... £20 for 20 litres

http://www.organicfeed.co.uk/Products/Organic-Poultry-Feeds/Baby-Chick-Crumbs.aspx

2 bags of 30 litres (so 60 litres) of wood based cat litter are now £16 at PAH....

Like I say.. thats not where I bought it from :think:

Ah forget it!

lostinrates

gettingready wrote: »

Feed them less and hide the water...:rotfl:

I wish! The feral....who is really testing our litter choices....can't concentrate her urine and has permanent diarrhoea (under vet supervision, noone panic) and its shocking. She makes far more work in the litter trays than the other two put together.

For us the trick is, I think, enough litter trays. Though my pet cats, like many girls, like to go together :eek::rotfl: so they have a huge tray upstairs at the back of the house (and a spare for feral who likes open trays) We then have two more at the front upstairs (we have two landings) which the pet cats use more during the day time...again, a closed one for them, and an open one,

then, ATM an open one down stairs: this is the one that causes me most greif and I'm hopig to change it for a deep plastic box soon then start moving it somewhere else slowly.

All the litter trays get me down. My two are easy going and clean and would be find with their one giant one, but I'm aware as they get older in a biggish house, having more might help them. But feral has only learnt about trays in the last few months, and so with one per cat and one spare (plus one for luck upstairs) really is the best option...and is whats recommended. Its space for stuff like that, rather than space for the cats themselves, that makes it harder for people with indoor cats I think.

But you DO have four lovely little furbundles, so it might be worth seeing if you can squeeze any more litter trays in somewhere.

Keeping them deep, I repeat, is more cost effective, though it does feel odd.

Our HUGE box takes a fell moonlight bag and alost all of a big oko one. But I haven't topped up the back landing ones since NY.

The downstairs one ....with the ferals urine problem and the cheaper kitten litter, is topped up several times a week and was cleaned out completely after a fortnight at the weekend.

gettingready

Ermmm I have 2 massive trays - it is only a 2 bed flat.. plssssssssssssssssss let ME have some space here

2 of mine have "permanent dihrea" (spelling?) and I have now given up on the vet after spending well over £500 trying to diagnose the reason and all the tests coming bac as "nothing wrong with them two cats".

Because of that, the poo is scattered all over, gets stuck to single granules etc etc - I am sure youu get the picture.....

Thought I may show off the family as the kitties have grown a bit now...

The big hairy one is Zara my GS

The ginger boy permanently attached to her is George - he sucks on her feet, adopted her as his mum, I am waiting for him to start barking.

The tabby boy with white chest/socks is Fred - greedy thing, always hungry, never touches dry food but goes mad for raw meat, nicked a pig's leg from Zara - veryyyyy brave

The silver with stripes is Fiona, we call get Syberian Tigeress, very independent girl, cuddles when SHE wants to ONLY

The smallest one, black with white face/chest and socks is Phoebe (called Bibi most of the time as she is the smallest), baby in the family, sweet like anything....

The poo problem ones are the boys - Fred and George...

Bunny

(p.s I've no idea how the lady above made 1 bag last that long!! kudos to you... haha no way did I manage to be so litter frugal - how many trays do you have?) I got one of the huge sacks of oko plus from a cat show and that only lasted about 2.5 months tops (and yes I did only take out the lumps, my cats must pee and poop for England!)

I don't know if you meant me or not but with the clean and tidy one, I use 3/4 of the bag initially, making it quite deep in the litter tray, one of my cats will only use the litter tray and one will use the tray as well as going outside. We scoop at least once a day then near the end of the month the tray just needs topping up with the remainder of the bag. It clumps really well, just remove the clumps and poops.
At the start of the new month, I totally empty the tray, disinfect it and start afresh with a new bag.

gettingready

Ah mystery solved then.

There is a difference between 4 indoor ONLY cats and 1 indoor cat....

Bunny

I never said I had 4 indoor only cats (2 are more than enough for me, they keep me on my toes)
I'd say they'd average out at around 1 and a half indoor cats, they're both inside for at least 14 hours a day, but as I say it lasts me 1 month for my 2, unfortunately they only sell it in 5kg bags and that is what lasts me a month. so I'd say you'd need 3 bags if my cats are anything to go by, obviously they are all different.
We've tried other ones, but I think once this has ran out, we'll be going back to the Clean and Tidy one.
One day someone will invent the perfect litter (might even scoop itself)

silviam

I swear by World Best: it's very expensive but it's very absorbent with little dust/tracking. I have 5 cats and found this a life saver!

gettingready

OMG - scopped 2 poo bags worth of "whatever" out of the 2 trayes before going to sleep last night.

There are another 2 poo bags worth of whatever in the litter boxes now when I woke up.

I will stop feeding them and hide the water :mad:

Off to scoop again..... sigh.....