Oh coth gurus please help!!
Its called Feline Pine.
I used magnum horse pellets for my rabbit. The cat had no problem sharing the box…
Thanks!
It’s cheaper if you buy it bagged for horses; I think a 40lb bag at TSC is $6 or so, and the cat version is probably the same price for about 1/4 as much.
It’s also the time of year when you can go to Home Depot and buy wood stove pellet fuel, which is the same thing. Also about $6 for 50 lbs.
I use “Woody Pet”. It’s not in pellets but very small chunks. Love it. Better for the environment.
Ohh good to know!
Ok had to share looking on petsmart.ca and under catagories there was the usual
Cats dogs fish small animals reptiles then…live pets?! Cause i know ya’ll are shopping for your dead ones…,
Just a caution here. I might have the only cat in creation that this has happened to, but . . .
A year or two ago, not too long ago at least, I tried the Feline Pine stuff, as I found a great sale on it and was curious. Cats seemed to use it fine.
Within a week, Tenuto, my older seal point, seemed a bit snuffly. This progressed over a weekend to eye goop (but not the infected-looking eye goop) and definitely congested. I was watching carefully that weekend, hoping to put off the vet visit until the weekend was over. She was still eating and all fine, just seemed like she had a URI. No other cats did. Finally, the light bulb went off.
I bought clay-based litter again at Walmart immediately and changed the box back.
Tenuto was far better the next morning. Over a day or so, it totally cleared up. No vet visit required.
But be aware that obviously, some cats, or at least ONE cat in the world, are allergic to pine.
I did find hypoallergenic respi free clay litter on petsmart, said 13$/20lb bag
I mix TSC horse pellets with regular clumping litter – it extends the litter longer and does cut the ammonia smell (one cat is part fish so regardless of scooping the boxes out in the morning, they’re a little ripe in the evening especially if he goes multiple times in the same spot/box).
I do prep the pellets first – I have an old empty Tidy Cats pail that I fill half way with the horse pellets then mix with about half a gallon of water. Stir till the pellets till they flake apart, and let dry, giving it a toss every couple of days to get it all dry. I add about 5 cups worth whenever I completely strip/refill the pans, and about 1 cup whenever I have to “top off the box”.
I tried filling a whole litter box with the prepped pellets, but I think it was way too strong smelling. The cats did that scrunch face thing after approaching the box, and walked away from it to use the other one instead. I haven’t tried again after letting the prepped pellets sit for a month or so – the smell dissipates after a while.
