Definitely bending over for any length of time can be a big pain in the back.
I pick up my litter boxes and place them on a plastic lawn furniture end
table. It raises the box to a level where I can scoop in comfort and the cats
like to sit under it and play with my pants leg. 'Stop that, stop that, no
claws!!" I can't easily get up from those garden kneeler seats because of
really weak knees. Whoever coined the term "Golden Years" was probably not yet
18.
Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty neighbors
too!
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From: Edna Taylor <taylore...@msn.com>
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Sent: Monday, October 8, 2012 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Scoopable Litter
Yep, my college degree sits behind me at my desk doing me absolutely no good
whatsoever ;)
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Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 14:19:58 -0700
From: moonsiste...@yahoo.com
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Scoopable Litter
I have 40 cats so any cat litter expense is going to be flushing money down the
drain or into the garbage. I use pine pellets which cost $6.00 for 40 lbs. at
Tractor Supply. At that price my cats can poop and pee in luxury. The pine
breaks down to a yellow powder though and I have to sweep it up all the time to
prevent my cat room from looking like a weird beach because the cats dig and
then track with their paws. Yellow, yellow everywhere. I use a light weight
variable length squeegee to sweep because a broom just makes all that yellow go
airborne. At least there is no initial dust up when I pour the pine and it
really deodorizes the contents of the litter box unless I don't dump it often
enough. I dump and wash and refill about every 3 days, scoop the poop every
day. Lots of work. For this I needed a college degree?
Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty neighbors
too!
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From: Lorrie <felineres...@frontier.com>
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Sent: Monday, October 8, 2012 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Scoopable Litter
I use scoopable litter, but I use the dust free kind. Some scoopable
litter is so dusty clouds of it billow up and this is obviously bad
stuff. I never use any scoopinig litter with small kittens, but
with as many grown cats as I have (total 24) I use very large litter
boxes and I simply can't lift them (to dump) when they are filled with
the clay litter. I have painful arthritis and I'm ancient... almost 80.
I'd really like to hear from others on the list about who uses clay
litter and who uses scoopable. Fresh Step and Tidy Cat scoopable don't
seem to have any dust at all, but it's scary to think scoopable litter
is so bad.
Lorrie
On 10-08, Natalie
wrote:
>
> Liter, especially clumping litter, should be banned - I have tons of
> info on it, how a company responded to a concerned cat owner, "Buyer
> beware". I discourage all my adopters from using it. Sodium bentonite
> is fatal to cats if they inhale it, eat it, inadvertently when cleaning
> themselves - or kittens, while playing.
>
> People always seem to think that if something is expensive, it must be
> the best - and they want the best for their cats! Hartz litter is
> pretty disgusting, too!
>
> Natalie
>
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