Best NON-Clumping Litter?

murphy9

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My new kitten has taken to snacking on his Kitten Attract litter. I have to watch him and stop him before he eats. I'm worried since it is clumping. I've heard that the Kitten Attract can work well sprinkled on top of other litters.

What's your favorite non-clumping litter that will be decent for an 8 wk old kitten?
 

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I use esquisi cat crystal litter! and you can get either the small crystals or larger ones...the smaller is Dust free, and the larger ones I believe is 98% dust free. I personally love it, and just recently went back to it after changing to clumping litter.  And the small crystals should be good on your kittens paws I imagine as it's softer litter.
 

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I use Pioneer SmartCat, and I absolutely love it. I didn't find it in the review section, so here's a link:  http://smartcatlitter.com/

It has no scent, no dust, it clumps really well and is super easy to clean. Since I started using it, I haven't had any of the nasty piles of muddied pee that stick to the sides and corners of the litter box, nor any of the little dirty clumps that are so small they fall through the scoop. Sinbad has even stopped playing in his litter box and kicking out piles of litter across the room since we began using it.

It's more expensive than what we'd been using (I don't remember what brand it was, a big bag from CostCo), but it's well worth it to avoid the nasty piles of dust and mudpiles. It also seems to last longer, we definitely use less of the smartcat than the other stuff, and we're keeping the same depth of litter. 
 

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I really really love the Tidy Cat Breeze system. It's a two-tiered litterbox, with a bottom tray that you line with a pad to catch the urine, and a top tray that holds larger pellets. The top tray has holes like a colander to allow the urine to pass through to the bottom tray. You change the pad once a week, and the pellets once a month. You scoop the poop out of the pellets daily/as needed. It's very neat, there is almost no tracking, and it controls smell well.

The only issue I can see with it is that some cats take longer to adjust to it than others. The first cat I tried it on used it as if he had helped me pick it out for him, but when I introduced my kitten to it earlier this year, she found it very confusing. She thought the pellets were the worst tasting cat food ever at first (they were too large and hard for her to actually eat, so don't worry about that), and clearly felt that sometimes I made some dumb decisions. I ended up changing to Blue Buffalo walnut pellets (much less expensive), which was similar enough to the Blue Buffalo walnut clumping litter she used that she understood what was going on, and now uses it with no problem. I liked the Tidy Cat pellets just fine when my last cat was using them, however.

For what it's worth, I have known cats of all ages who were interested in eating clay clumping litter, but I haven't had a similar problem with the BB walnut clumping litter, which I also really like. It might be worth a shot.
 

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I use Blue Buffalo's pellet litter for all our rescue kittens (and for those that have to be crated for medical reasons.) This litter is made from walnut shells. I haven't had any issues with the kittens eating it. I have also found it easy to transition the kittens from the pellet litter to BB's regular clumping litter and then to clay litter as they get older.

Prior to using BB, I used Yesterday's News.
 
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