Paper pellets

[BrendaJane]

it’s a little of a crossover question, should perhaps go into the menagerie.

The other day I bought a bag of paper pellet ‘cat litter’ because it was the only thing left in the shelf and I needed some. And it wasn’t even snowing!

The at uses it to poop, but doe not seem to pee in it. Which is fine, if I remember to leave the toilet open the problem is neatly solved (she is the only cat I ever had to do so)

So basically I dump a box of dry pellets out, with a few turds.
But it made me wonder if that is an option on a larger scale, and if it is better than wood pellets.

I bought a bag of the regular stuff again.
I wish the corn cob litter was more widely available. That stuff was actually pretty good!

[Hippolyta]

When I had one cat, I used the pine pellets. They were amazing. Plastic bag over the entire box as a liner, sifted out the poo and when the pellets had all turned to fluff, take out bag, replace. There really wasn’t tracking. The wood even smelled nice.

It was also cheap. You can get the big bags for horse stalls for about the same price as a small bag of the kitty version. More than one cat & it really didn’t work anymore.

I haven’t used paper pellets. I didn’t like the corn stuff. There is a corn gluten powder that you can add to plain kitty litter to make it clump. It clumps well & it saved $.

Now I have scads of cats & use Dr Elsey’s multicat (unscented - cats and ppl both hate scented, so why is unscented harder to find?). It is the best that I have found.

Can you get the corn cob delivered from a subscription service (eg Chewy, PetCo)? It blows my mind that they will deliver 40 lbs of litter for free. How does that work for them?

Remember that some cats wll get fussy if you don’t switch gradually. I knew this, blew it off, and suffered the consequences.

I stockpiled during COVID lockdown. The thought of being without litter was terrifying.

[BrendaJane]

I am going back to the tried and true kind. .
The store has had trouble keeping shelves stocked long before COVID though.

I was just wondering if anybody had used the paper pellets anywhere with actual moisture application, so to speak. When I toss them they are basically bone dry.

are they even available in farm size packaging?

Come to think of it, I can think of better applications for the pellets in the garden than in the litterbox. Then again, my cats are weirdoes.

[Calvincrowe]

Order Swheat Scoop from Chewy—wheat middlings that are great as a clumping litter. Environmentally great and compostable! Best litter I’ve ever used.

[BrendaJane]

well, the cat gave the paper pellets a restounding 4 paws down

I gather nobody has tried it for horses then.
I am back to the usual stuff, she was much reliefed.