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I use Feline Pine litter with a Feline Pine litter box. I LOVE it. The litter box is actually two boxes, a "sieve" type box inside a normal box. When urine hits the litter, it turns into something like sawdust, which then will go through the sieve into the bottom of the box-- the good clean litter stays on top of the sieve. I scoop out the poop every day.

The litter has a good clean pine scent, and they say it is compostable. I haven't tried that as I live in the City and have no yard.

World's Best Cat Litter. Made of corn cobs I believe. Amazing. Absorbent, clumps, flushable. It's all I'll buy now. Kitty loves it.

i don't know if it is green or not, but i recommend adding natures miracle litter treatment to these types of litter to control the ammonia smell. i used worlds best cat litter to try to potty train my cats (one was easy to train, the other refused), and the ammonia odor was unexpected and severe. i added the natures miracle and it actually smells good.

I can't imagine you'd want cat pee in your compost-- it is SO acidic!

I used to use Feline Pine but my cat tracked the dust EVERYWHERE. Maybe I'll look for the World's Best. At the moment I'm using Arm & Hammer but it looks completely processed and toxic (it turns blue to warn me that it's going to smell-- how weird is that?)

I've tried Feline Pine (Too Dusty), Swheat Scoop (Wheat based) & Worlds Best (Corn Based).

Swheat Scoop & Worlds best are both good, but they have different strengths. Both are flushable, but Swheat Scoop is a little better at odor control, but it seems to be a little messier.

We currently use Worlds Best, and whenever the odor gets a little strong, we just sprinkle in a little baking soda, and everybody (including our kitty) is happy.

Stephanie-- Thank you so much for the nod to GO!

I use a generic version of Feline Pine myself, and really like it... except when I step on one of the pieces in my bare feet...:P

Jeff

I can't stand Feline Pine's smell and my cats don't like the pellets. Swheat Scoop forms a cement block anywhere the cats pee so it's really heavy to scoop and doesn't clump that well. I swear by World's Best now - it's the only thing that actually clumps well, is flushable and doesn't have a ton of dust.

I find WB is better at odor control because it clumps better and you don't get a urine smell as much.

And I have 5 indoor kitties!

I don't have an outdoor composting but my worm bins (when I had them) were not into litter compost. Public composting will not let you compost litter.

So I never understand why it is such a big deal to be compostable -- I don't know ANYONE who has actually composted their cat litter in the city.

World's Best Cat Litter is imho pretty much perfect. They also make a multi-cat version which I'd imagine might have better odor control. I haven't tried that one as I've had no need. The regular World's Best works very well for me.

Worlds Best Cat Litter does sound pretty good, but I must say that with the Feline Pine Litter and Feline Pine Litter Box, I don't have any trouble with my cat tracking dust AT ALL.

I recently started using Arm & Hammer High Performance clumping litter. It is biodegradable and says that it is natural, or rather that is has natural clumping materials. I've been unable to find a better description of how it is exactly "natural" and would love to know if anyone else has more information.

I do like it quite a bit, since it clumps well and is very low dust. The cats like it because it has the same texture as regular clumping litter, which they are already used to. It has a strong fragrance at first, but is also has excellent odor absorbing properties.

A 10.5 lb bag supposedly has the same usage as 21 lbs of regular clumping litter, but I have not verified this and it is unclear why this is the case.

I'm still investigating this product but, overall, it seems like a winner.

I use Nature's Miracle Odor Clumping Litter and am pretty satisfied. It's basically dust free, is corn-based, and is also flushable. I use cat pan liners from Biobag to avoide the plastic bag issue.

i use world's best: it's natural and flushable. the cats do track dust around, but i can live with that. i've been told that my apartment doesn't smell like i have cats.

I use Trader Joe's version of Feline Pine for my two indoor cats. I like the pine smell and I prefer it to the commercial brands since I'm horrified to think of my poopsies licking their paws and ingesting the dust from the commercial brands. Ick. Thanks for bringing up the Feline Pine box! I didn't know that it existed and will definitely have to look into it.

Right now my method for clean up is Feline Pine in a Booda Loo lined with brown paper bags and old newspapers. It's a process. But I felt so guilty about the plastic bags that I used to use that I was willing to take more time out of my day with the paper alternatives.

I have a very small apartment and use world's best, and I can tell you the odor is not so great. I didn't realize it was flushable...is it really? I always worry about flushing things...since it may go through the pipes fine, but that doesn't mean that the waste water treatment plant can actually process it...

Yeah, I have been trying to only flush the urine clumps and throw the stool in the trash in light of what's happened in CA wit the otters.

I use Feline Fresh... Cheap, flushable, biodegradable and very similar in texture to clay for finnicky cats like mine.

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My younger sister taught her cat to use the toilet!! There are easy cheap kits that help you out and they usually cost between 15-25$ No ugly literbasket or litter - can't get any friendlier than that!

I use Swheat Scoop with a layer of baking soda on the bottom and we all love it!

I've bought newspaper litter and my cat hated it, plus when it gets wet it's hard to scoop. I also tried some corn cob stuff, but it doesn't clump either and so is also hard to scoop.

We can't flush cat poop here, or compost it in the city boxes, so I'll have to stick with plastic and garbage for now.

My three kitties use Swheat Scoop and a siftable litter box system. As long as I "sift" daily, it works pretty well. Otherwise, the Swheat Scoop can get pretty bricky. The main drawback to this approach is that wet litter tends to stick around in the bottom of the litter box after lifting out the clumps, and cleaning that gets tedious.

I've tried the pine but one of my kitties is quite picky about anything that's not sandy and smooth on her delicate little paws.

We use Good Mews, manufactured in Oregon from recycled newsprint, for our two longhairs. We found that Feline Pine (and the derivatives thereof) tracked too much; the great tufts of fur between their toes, as well as their bottle-brush tails, made it difficult for them to leave the litter in the box.

While I don't think I'd compost the litter for use in fertilizing a vegetable garden, I don't see the harm in burying it elsewhere -- if you have the space, that is. In the city, I think you're left with flushing the clumps and tossing the rest.

Like many above, we use Swheat Scoop for our 3 cats. We also put baking soda at the base of the pan to prevent sticking to the bottom. We have 2 composts in our back yard, in for pee bricks, the other for kitchen greens. The compost from the pee bricks only goes on flowerbeds and grass, the other goes into the vegetable garden. We flush the poo, so far, all is good!

I use Perfect Litter (petecology.com). It clumps, it's flushable, and doesn't smell like wet hay as I've found a lot of "hippie" litters do. Plus, it turns bright pink if your cat has a UTI. Pretty cool stuff.

They ship it to you in the mail, two bags a month. At first I thought that was weird and wasteful. But now I'm glad when it shows up on my doorstep. Oh, and it weighs next to nothing! Really weird the first time you pick it up.

World's Best is great. I use the higher strength/multi-cat version because my cat has kidney issues and pees A LOT. Sometimes her paws are a little dusty, but knowing it's just corn, I don't worry about it. No bad smells, flushable, clumping - pretty easy.

Modern cat did a great comparison on natural cat litters here: http://www.moderncat.net/2008/04/27/natural-cat-litter-comparison/

I personally use Swheat for my two kitties and I like it because it's dust free, controls odors, is biodegradable when disposed of in a paper bag and my kitties seem to like it. I'll have to use the baking soda trick - thanks! The only downside is that they track it outside of the box so I have to clean up the floor every time I scoop. Not a huge deal, but it migrates around my apartment. I'll have to try the multi-cat formula next time.

My cats use Swheat Scoop (wheat based). It is flushable and Toronto will compost what isn't flushed and with 2 cats the smell isn't bad, even if it isn't scooped out everyday. The downside is that the pee soaked litter tends to stick to the bottom of the box, that and my dog likes it to snack on it...

I trained my kids to use the toilet, but one stopped when I went out of town and my friend who was supposed to be watching didn't go daily and one got locked in the bathroom and the other one out.

I currently do not have a natural cat litter,but I would like to get one. As far as removing the waste in a green-way, we use BONton bags.. (their website): http://www.unitedpets.com/eng/home.asp
The bags are biodegradable, so I feel better about throwing the waste away.

We use silica gel litter, Space, from Trader Joe's; it's like the Litter Pearls brand. It's touted as chemical-free and biodegradable. It's definitely dust-free and easy to clean up when it inevitably escapes the box (as litter will do despite any trackless claims).

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i'm on the same wagon as lolopuffs
We can't afford the flushable/natural litters so we use a regular clumping litter and I use biodegradable doggy poop bags to throw the poop out. We use to use regular plastic bags but I felt awful because of how much damage that bag would do. :\ so we just compromise.