Comments on: I didn’t used to think mulch about cat litter

By: Promote Globally

Promote Globally — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 14:08:54 +0000

Thanks for your comment! Currently my mix is almost all pellet stove fuel – compressed hardwood sawdust. It’s extremely economical, $5 for a very large, heavy bag. I add water to about 4″ of pellets in a pail, and it blooms up into fluffy sawdust in a few minutes. I recycle the cat box daily, remove the turds and wet clumps, then sanitize the rest in the hot sun, then fill the box with previously sanitized mix.

By: Joseph Bondiskey

Joseph Bondiskey — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 11:37:01 +0000

Thank you so much for this article. I have two 14 year old cats and they are huge cat litter users. I used clay litter and recently I switched to Worlds best cat litter. It is super pricey, so I am going to try the pine pellets. How often do the pellets should be changed? Is there much litter tracking? Thank you once again

By: Promote Globally

Promote Globally — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 14:58:24 +0000

Lorrie, thanks for your comment. Laptops are very warm and cozy!

By: Lorrie

Lorrie — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 16:31:53 +0000

Thanks for the post. I have 7 cats and 3 dogs. I recently switched to pine and the cats are getting used to it.

PS, Cubby (Cat Under Bed) after 2 years has been coming out into the house to socialize… And lay on the laptop. Very helpful!

By: Promote Globally

Promote Globally — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 02:08:00 +0000

Jean, thanks for your comment. I’m not sure about pine litter attracting termites. You should keep a close watch on that. We change our littler daily, clean up the spilled wood etc. I would not be in favor of dumping litter in compost, since we use our compost to grow herbs and edibles. I think it’s fine to spread the used litter around flowers, sparingly at first, making sure the plants are OK.

By: Jean

Jean — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 00:43:14 +0000

Thank you for the information. I have a question below.

We alternate over the year among using pine pellets and the 3Xwheat litter, but mostly prefer the pine pellets because they do not clump. We flush cat turds only down our toilet, but trash the litter. Recently, instead of trash disposal we started to put the dissolved pellet litter into our compost pile and my thought is the ammonia from the urine will facilitate microbial decomposition in the compost. (note: our indoor cats are toxo negative)

MY MAIN QUESTION IS, WILL THE PINE LITTER ATTRACT TERMITES? IF YOU HAVE KNOWLEDGE ON THIS PLEASE POST!

By: Promote Globally

Promote Globally — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 12:23:28 +0000

Our cats are happy with a mostly pine mix as well!

By: Brenda

Brenda — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 21:15:53 +0000

We just use pine pellets from Tractor Supply… Our cats never complained

By: Promote Globally

Promote Globally — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 23:53:08 +0000

Glad you enjoyed the post, Natalie!

By: Natalie

Natalie — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 21:27:39 +0000

I recently became “Auntie” to my brothers 2 cats as he has been living on the road this last year .I am experimenting as well..Things are different when we had our farm cats and then into adulthood ,catbox shenanigans,usually with my cats and the roommates cats.I appreciate the article..Knowing someone else is doing and thinking along the same lines gave me a smile for the day. Natalie