Re: Check out Clumping Clay Kitty Litters and Your Cat's Health

[Nina]

I just called Sally to ask her about which litter she uses, (many of you guys probably remember "Sally from San Jose" that used to be on the list).  She had a very sad time with kitten mortality not too long ago and I just wanted to make sure she wasn't using the hazardous litters.  I should have known better.  Anyway, what she uses is corn chicken feed.  It's called "laying chicken crumbles" and she says it works almost as well, (for clumping properties) as the World's best litter and is very inexpensive.  It's doubtful that this is organically grown ;-) , but it is biodegradable and ingestible.  I'm going to call around and see if I can find it at feed stores.  Sally says she prefers it to the clay because it's not as heavy and there are no chemicals added.  I'll let you know how well it works for my guys, Nina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: Nina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, July 5, 2006 11:43 am Subject: Re: Check out Clumping Clay Kitty Litters and Your Cat's Health To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Thanks Hideyo, I did a search on "sweet scoop". It's actually spelled "Swheat Scoop*", *a little clever word play, as if English isn't confusing enough! I was surprised to find out just how great a hazard the regular clumping litter can be, (thanks again Michelle), and I don't want to support the companies that make it, or endanger my cats. It is discouraging to find yet another expense and inconvenience trying to do what's best for my fur family. I did a little snooping and regular, non scented clay litter like Johnny cat, seems to be safe. Has anyone heard anything that would make you suspect otherwise? Nina * I use regular, non scented, non scooping litter for my kittens as tiny kittens will eat scooping litter - I don't know why, it doesn't look like it would taste very good. It is so cheap I just dump the whole kitten litterboxes out and refill them daily. I think 20 lbs is about $2.50 on sale around here.