If you scoop daily.....

I use Tidy Cats scoopable litter and I scoop daily. How often do you actually have to dump the whole litter,wash out the pan and refill? I have two 4-5 month old kittens using it and a basement litter box.

Everybody's different, but I think it depends on the cats - if they dig furiously and break up the clumps, the dirty litter will mix with the clean & it will need to be changed relatively frequently. If the clumps stay clumped, you can spot-clean the box and stretch out the litter. This page (click here) gives good instructions for that.

with clay I did a full change every week or two ... now it is every three to four

Originally Posted by sharky

with clay I did a full change every week or two ... now it is every three to four

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pray tell what do you use!!!!! i would love to be able to change less!!

I scoop several times a day (14 cats is why) But I don't change the litter out except for once every two weeks. Because I use stall dry, I find that I don't have the odor problem I do with regular clay litter

What is stall dry?

I change completely every 3-4 weeks, and use scooping litter- arm & Hammer, tidy cats, fresh step or exquiscat from petsmart.

I scoop every morning and do a complete clean out every 2 weeks, that is with one cat though. With 2 cats you might have to do it more often.... Once they get a bit older you might consider getting a 2nd box.

We scoop every day and lately have been changing the boxes every 2-3 weeks

Originally Posted by Mom2SalemIsis

pray tell what do you use!!!!! i would love to be able to change less!!

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I use something called natural harmony.... it is like feline pine with alfalfa pellets added ... it is semi scoopable

We use World's Best and I scoop daily (sometimes twice per day) and add a cup or 2 of new every couple of days. I completely dump and clean the box and put in all new litter about once per month. The litters are in our bedrooms and we don't have an odour problem.

When the litter and/or the box is visibly dirty. If a relatively freshly changed box is dirties by someone pooping against the side, then I might just dump the litter into a new box rather than throw out nearly new litter. But generally I dump and scrub one box a day, which puts my smaller litterboxes on about a 7-10 day rotation and the massively huge boxes (as in the 3'x2'x2' storage boxes) on about a 3 week rotation.

man with our adult 4 cats, we use Arm and Hammer multicat scoopable litter. works great and keeps odor down. but we scoop once at night. and once in the morning.

- .D.

I have two boxes for one cat - keep them in a guest room shower stall. world's best litter is the brand. scoop twice a day . no odor. dump and clean everything out once a month. no smell. kitty seems happy. so are the humans.

P.S. I keep my litter deep so urine doesn't get to the bottom very often.

Okay,Thanks for all the ideas. It had been a month since I've totally dumped and cleaned and I will have to say,it was still in good shape but I felt that I needed to. Now at least I have a gauge!

I can't stand the thought of my cats walking around in their own waste so I scoop once a day and completely change and scrub their boxes every 2-3 days.

what about those "crystal" litters? any good?

Originally Posted by BoscoNYC

what about those "crystal" litters? any good?

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I tried cystal litter but the idea of it trapping pea and I cant see how much is there disturbs me ...

i scoop 2-3 times a day, and usually dump & scrub the litter boxes every 2-4 weeks. i actually have to do all 4 of our boxes this weekend because we were out of town for a few days, and the boxes got kind of icky. we had a sitter, but the litter just didn't seem to clump as well.