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There's a good wheat based scoopable too, called SWheat Scoop. Never tried
it, but have heard good reviews from others (and I believe the clumps are
flushable too). I like the idea of corn or wheat based litters, we KNOW those
are relatively safe, I mean, they are ingredients in many cheaper cat foods!
When they successfully make a GOOD absorbent rice litter I'll be first in
line!
LOL, I ran out of litter once, but had a big box of cream of wheat
breakfast cereal... but it didn't absorb much. I think rolled oats might work
though.. anyone got an old bag of quaker oats that's rotting in the pantry, for
the sake of science?
In the past, when I was really poor (this was years ago, mind you) I
just went out into the yard and dug up some dirt to put in the litterbox. Sandy
soil is MUCH preferable to good dirt, at least it doesn't turn into mud
clods.
I'm still trying to figure out my endless litter self-cleaning litterbox.
Uses aquarium or pea gravel over a small 1/4 grid rabbit wire base over a
dropped "waste" receptacle with built in plumbing so it actually all flushes
away, pee goes right through it, then it self rinses it after the cat leaves the
box with a non-toxic white vinegar "douche" (you know the floral scented vinegar
kind) that is heated and sprays down over the "litter" from above. But the poo
is an issue I'm still trying to figure out (solid poo anyways, diarrhea would
just rinse away like pee). I would need to rake it somehow. Then I got the idea
of using stainless steel BB type pellets instead of gravel. Make it a covered
box, with a high powered electromagnet in the cover. After the cat leaves the
box, the douche cycle comes on, then after that finishes, the electromagnet
kicks on, and WHAM, all the BBs instantly pop up to the roof of the box, then
the base uses a robotic arm to swing the rabbit wire base down, and the poop is
dumped into the bottom "waste" receptacle. The robotic arm whacks it a few times
on a brace built in for that purpose, to get any turds that are clinging to fall
off the rabbit wire. Then it swings back up, locks back in place, the magnet
shuts off, the litter BBs fall back down, the whole system flushes using the
built in toilet-like plumbing that clears the waste receptacle, and it's ready
for the next user.
LOLOLOL!!!!!! OK, so I have too much time on my hands...
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