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I'm sure enough of you have cats that you have an opinion on this subject.

I have two cats: one spends nearly all her time indoors, and uses a cat box. The other spends nearly all his time outdoors (unless it's raining and cold) and uses the great outdoors - mostly.

For each I've provided an Omega Paw covered cat tray. This is a convenient design; with clumping litter you just tip the entire covered tray over on its side and then upside down, and roll it back. It has a set of louvers inside that direct the clumps and stuff into a removable drawer. The unclumped litter goes back into the deposit area.

For litter I generally use whatever Costco has in stock. Usually it's "Scoop Away" which the indoor cat seems to be comfortable with.

I empty the indoor cat's tray every day. I keep a small covered trash can near it, with a plastic bag liner. The deposits go into there, until trash day, then I pull the bag, put a knot in the top, and add it to the trash collection bin.

For a while I tried a flushable clumping wheat-based cat litter. The cat was very reluctant to use it; when she finally did, I found that the stuff tended to clog the sewer line (even though it's not supposed to). It also tended to form clumps that glued themselves to the bottom of the litter tray that sort of defeated the entire idea of the Omega Paw design. So I went back to a clay-based clumping litter.
 
Kitty

When I clean the litter box my cat stay's by the box and cries
as soon as I am done she jump's right in an stay's there till
she does somthing, she can't stand to have a clean litter box.
 
Re: Short and Sweet:

Most of the time, I use Fresh Step Litter for my Cat Potty. She is an 11-1/2 Year Old Female Calico and her name for newer Members is Speedee. She is a total Indoors Cat and has never been Outside, other than in her Pet Carrier, when going to the Vets, when she was younger and getting her "Personals" taken care of, besides her First Shots and De-Clawed.

I know that most everyone doesn't like to hear about having a Cat De-Clawed, but it was for 2-Reasons. 1} Because of my
Life-Partner Gary {Passed-Away, January 29, 1999} dealing with HIV/AIDS and so she wouldn't Claw the Furniture, like my Parent's Cat's did.

Peace and Fun Loving Pets, Steve
SactoTeddyBear...
 
10 Inside and 32 Feral Cats

I have 3 LitterMaid for my Inside kitties. But seems only a few litters work well with them . Scoop Away, Tidy Cats hard clump seem to do the best . My Inside cats are Maytag, Kenmore, Westinghouse, Hotpoint, Bendix, Apex, General, Hoover , Sunbeam (yellow of course) and Tumbler he loves to tumble on the floor from side to side.
 
Light-weight

Hi all

I can only use light-weight with my cats as they won't touch woodbased. Fullers earth I find is too heavy.

I have 3 cats, 2 Birmans and I British Shorthair, with very pretentious names, Tamino, Orlando and Olivia.

I am fortunate to live in a 212 year old house with an old original wash house out back. This is (you guessed it) where I keep my washers naturally, and where my cats reside. Here are some pics of them.
 
Just about two years ago, (October 18, 2004), I lost my cat of 18 years. Three months later, I adopted Jake, who just happened to come with a brand-new Litter Maid automatic litter box. What a wonderful invention. The minute this one breaks, I'll be at the store buying another one.

I have tried several different brands of cat litter, but find that Arm & Hammer works the best.

With my previous cat, I had a regular litter box and used Feline Pine, which I also liked very much. I'm not sure if that will work with the Litter Maid. If anyone has used that combination of Litter Maid and Feline Pine with success, I'd appreciate knowing that.

I have posted Jake's picture before. But here it is again.

Ron
 
I have 6 indoor cats and I'm a cheapskate. I go to O'Reilly Auto Parts and buy their 40lb bag of oil dry spill absorbent. It is clay like cat litter, and is really not that dusty. I have a littermaid automatic and I used their recommended litter, but it would scoop the litter into a pile at one end and then endlessly cycle because the scooper blades would hang up in the pile and continue to cycle trying to clear the blockage. Yes, I only used the amount they said to use. So, I went back to the cheap stuff.

I also have two dogs. Nice thing about cats: They take care of themselves. I can simply put out more food and water if I go out of town on the weekends. With dogs I have to take them to a boarding kennel if I'm gone for more than a day.
 
I haven't had a cat for six years, now, but my beloved girl The Swede liked Fresh Step kitty litter. She was clean fanatic. If I didn't take care of her covered litter box least once a day, she'd hop in and kick the offending matter out the front door onto my laundry room floor, muttering and grousing the whole time. I watched her do it a couple of times and laughed SO hard. Then she'd reappear, glare at me and stomp off.

Cats are amazing little creatures.
 
My cat uses "World's Best Cat Litter" It's made out of ground up and processed corncobs, nothing else. It clumps when wet but immediately falls apart when placed in the toilet for flushing. I've never had problems with clogs. I also use a covered litter box as kitty does a lot of pre and post scratching and makes the litter fly all over the place. I also had a cat who occasionally would hang over the edge of the box and do her business on the floor, even though the box is the largest they make. The covered box solved that problem also.

I lost the first cat I ever had to lymphoma, Memorial Day weekend of this year. We treated her weekly for 4 months and everything seemed to be going ok, and then her blood tests started showing some really bad numbers. First she became very anemic and then one of her white blood cell counts went really low. She lived for another month. I loved her so much and miss her every day.
 
i have 2 cats

Smudge and Scooter, we live with an allotment behind us so mostly visit that, lol. I cant stop them gettin in there. But generally they prefer Tesco value cat litter. Not that they use it to be honest. Smudge is a real bagpuss who spends most of the day inside but will go out when she feels like it. Scooter is the adventerous male. He sleeps by day with me on my bed. Then at night goes off on his travels to the allotment where he has several hiding places and a nice source of mice. Yuk. Nick.
 
I use a litter box called the "Booda Dome"
The cat has to walk up a few stairs and enter a dome-like area to use the litterbox. Seems to control odor well.
I use Scoop Away cat litter. Have 1 male black cat, a calico female and a tortoiseshell female.
 
Easter Smith, the Bunny Cat

Was quite vexed to be drawn into a public discussion about
his bathroom habits; he did say though that during the winter when he "goes inside" he is happy with any arrangement as long as I keep the bathroom clean!
 
10 cats.

5 litter boxes -- Rubbermaid high-sided open boxes.

Tidy Cat multi-cat scoopable litter (yellow and red 40# box).

Scooped daily into a grocery bag, tied up and placed in a separate box or bag to await garbage day.

After scooping and if the level in the litter box is getting low, litter is condensed or consolidated into the 2 boxes in the laundry room at the far end of the house. This leave nearly fresh litter in the other boxes in the other area of the house, there is little to no odor in the house, and I nearly never have to toss out litter that hasn't been completely used.
 
My girl Phoebe.

Here she is. She is three now. I got her when my 16 year old cat passed on.

I have a Littermaid box for her and wouldn't have anything else. I was using the Littermaid brand and it was working well but then Walmart came out with a brand that is about half the cost and is made to be used in Automatic boxes. It works really well.
 

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