Such finicky little buggers, aren’t they? 
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amazing…cats’ best okoplus clumping cat litter! Fabulous amazing fantastic and I promise I don’t work for them! It’s a wood fiber and I clear the clumps and poo every couple of days. Mix it through and occasionally add an anti odor powder. I also add more of the litter every two/three week to keep the box 3/4 full. The result with two mainly indoor cats is that I fully change the litter only every 4 to 5 months. This stuff has revolutionised my life and maybe the cats too!
Hi @Marion. I feel your pain about the ‘high peeing’. My cat’s litterbox is situated within a plastic kiddie pool to catch those drips.
I don’t believe the stainless steel litterbox would be at risk of smell absorption or rust as it is often used for kitchen surfaces (counters, sinks). But, yes, expensive.
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The litter tray I use is actually a box with a lid that clips on top. This has a hole in it and the cats just pop in. We bought this after I found that the ‘high pee-er’ had made a stain on the wooden flooring…despite the other box having high sides!
@Maggie8K you should NEVER flush cat poo downa toilet. Cat poo often contains a highly resistant parasite called Toxoplasma that can infect people and animals. Many municipal water treatments do not have equipment or processes to kill it (as they’re designed for humans who don’t poop this parasite!) meaning it would pass into our waterways, posing a risk to humans and animals alike. It can even prove fatal for some wildlife.
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Agree, certainly in the US. I mentioned this also: Let's Talk about Cat Litter - #8 by Lassie
I use a flushable litter, but I don’t flush it. Legality of flushing litter seems to vary by location. I’ve been on one sit in Boston where it was flushed. The right or wrong of this is another matter.
I started using flushable litter years ago when our beloved Senior Cat came back from radiation for hyperthyroidism. We were told choices were use the flushable litter or bin the litter and have it disposed of as hazardous medical waste. I was a bit confused about how I could be flushing hazardous medical waste, but that didn’t seem an issue. I’m not saying any of this is a good thing. This is just what we were told to do.
Not my cat and the hosts were doing that already. Don’t know the legality or such where they live, abroad.
I also use world’s best cat litter, it’s truly the best I’ve tried.
Has anyone thought about buying a litter robot? Is it even worth buying
A few of my pet-sitting clients have Litter Robots. In one house, they have 2 of them and they frequently malfunction. They work well when they work well, but I couldn’t justify the cost.
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I’ve had two sits with litter robots and they had no malfunctions during the sits. I thought they were easy to use, easy to clean up from errant pee, and intuitive operation. I don’t know how much they cost and I wonder how much the lightweight litter costs. But for me, as a temporary sitter, they’re a treat.
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At my current sit they have a nice two-layered mat by the litterbox. The sand falls through the holes in the upper layer and one can easily empty the sand back in the box.
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I started using Feline Pine (the pellets) with my prior cat, after trying just about every litter under the sun to find something that would work well. Continued using it for my current cat. I find that folks who haven’t used it before find it fussy, as it’s kind of backwards to normal clumping litter, but it is less messy, less smelly, lasts forever, and is way cheaper. I never flush cat waste though, for the reasons mentioned above.
I did end up changing my cat to regular clumping-style litter for a while, but I’m getting tired of how much litter ends up all over the floor.
My partner used World’s Best for her cats when we first met. I thought it was terrible! I’m the only person apparently who thinks this, but I found it did not mask odor at all and was quite dusty.
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I think the dust is more of an issue as it breaks down – like if you don’t change it out for more than 4 weeks. But I wonder if are senses of smell like eyesight may be different for different people, so maybe some cat litters mask smells better for some people than others?
I empty out the dust as much as possible every time I do the catbox! Try to leave only pellets behind (although it’s impossible to eliminate all small particles)
The litter tray I use is actually a box with a lid that clips on top. This has a hole in it and the cats just pop in. We bought this after I found that the ‘high pee-er’ had made a stain on the wooden flooring…despite the other box having high sides!
Edited to be in line with forum guidelines
I have one like that but out of 3 cats only 1 prefers it, one will use it sometimes, and the third is still terrified of it after almost 2 years!
Hmm thats pretty much right.
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As the parent of a feline who developed litter box fear/avoidance after developing constipation and taking close to a year to retrain to use the box… (ummm ever try to ‘retrain’ a cat?? 
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Have tried EVERY type of box, every type of litter:
The best litter is the one your cat will use 
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We have used large low side blanket boxes, auto clean, high side, low side, covered, uncovered, flap, no flap, lined, unlined.
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We have used “worlds best”, pretty cat, clay, corn, clumping, low dust, silicone etc….
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To this day: we always ensure wet food Twice daily with a little laxative every other day, and a favourite kibble.
Fresh water twice daily
Litter scooped and cleaned after EVERY use. The litter avoidance gone and replaced with human dependency—> she meows a LOT at us and we know it’s time to go to the box and we physically put her in. -
As for litter: she refuses ALL litter except a low tracking clumping clay called
“ fresh 4 life unscented” despite the litter dust makes ME sneeze and I liked worlds best- but kitty says no. -
As for a box- the vet insisted a low big box would be better — nope. She likes a covered large high side to scratch around, and wipe her
on sides. 
What the cat says
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