I have 32 acres to dump but I am loving the pot hole suggestion. My road has lots of car destroying pot holes. Not sure how clumping cat litter in this wet environment will do for road repair:winkgrin:
Well, your going to find it stuck in your tires…
I’ve tried the used litter on chipmunk holes and found it very effective, especially if you include some poop in the mix.
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I scatter it in the yard to get rid of skunks.
I dump it over the fence into the “forever wild” but I use Reigning Champion wood pellet bedding. Except it’s not really pellet-y, it’s shaped more like Grape Nuts cereal. I used to use Woody Pet but can’ t seem to find it anymore.
I really like my litter…it is biodegradable unlike the clay. I know this doesn’t help if your cats don’t like it, but might be worth a try.
There is finally an ODOR FREE Tidy Cat. And now it comes in lightweight. I put the heavy stuff on the bottom and fill to 4 inches with the lightweight. I toss mine in the garbage. I hate the perfumy stuff. And seriously it can’t be good for the cats either.
For natural dumpable stuff, I’ve been using Sanicare bedding (hardwood horse bedding) for years now and I love it. I got sick and tired of scooping. 5 cats, 5 litter boxes. I have a muck bucket that I carry to each and just dump the whole dang thing out every day and refill it. Couple feed scoops of bedding fills the smaller boxes pretty deeply. It’s essentially sawdust without dust since it’s hardwood and kiln dried and it’s been a lifesaver for my senior cat who was declawed by my mom 18 years ago. I think other litter hurt her feet so she’d try to hover and mostly miss the box.
2 bags last about 1.5 weeks at $7 a bag. Muck bucket gets dumped on the manure pile which is hauled away once a week.
For the barn cats we’ve been using pelleted bedding which is incredibly affordable in this application. Doesn’t have time to get dusty since it’s dumped every day. I was just too lazy to wet down the ones in the house to break down the pellets, hence the Sanicare. Both do track, but so has everything else I’ve ever used, and I freaking hate scooping XD
I have one box upstairs that one cat prefers and four in the base (for two cats). The one upstairs I dump completely every trash day as it get a lot of use. The ones downstairs vary according to the cats preference for that box. Most litter goes out in the trash but periodically I dump it in between the inner and outer walls of my run-in shed. Why? To discourage the starlings from nesting in there and making a mess. Which reminds me, I need to do that tonight. :eek:
LOL!
I dump the used litter down the “hill” in my backyard. That’s where all yard refuse (oak leaves, brush, used christmas trees etc) go. I love it because you can’t see it from the house or the yard. It makes for nice dark soil that I use to amend the soil in my yard (ornamentals and grass).
I almost never change mine. Even when the boys went to “camp” (I have friends who home board cats, and they have an amazing ability to get a bunch of strange cats to get along very well), I cleaned it out, freshened the litter, and took their box with them. If I did clean it out completely, I’d just haul it out and toss it in the bushes in the back 40 or something. I use World’s Best Cat litter, so very biodegradable.
