Our cats spend the majority of their time inside, but are slowly becoming outside cats. We still have the trays inside but the litter I'm using isn't hiding the smell very well. I was talking to a friend on the weekend who has an indoor cat and when I asked how he deals with the smell, he said he uses crystals and there is very little smell.
We've always used recycled paper but I've decided to try one that almost looks like sand / tiny wood chips although I'm concerned as it's a 'clumping' litter.
We tried the crystals when we first got the kittens home and they weren't interested at all.
They do spend a bit of time outside now (only when we're home), but don't tend do their business when they're in the yard.
Should I be using a clumping litter?
For those of you have inside / outside cats, do you still have a tray in place?
For those of you with inside cats, which litter do you use / reccommend to mask the smell?
My parents cat is an inside cat most of the day and goes out for a bit at night. They keep a tray for her in the laundry, although if she needs to go during the day she'll just stand by the back door until someone let's her out. She barely uses the litter but occasionally there are times where someone doesn't let her out in the morning and she'll use it. They use a clumping litter (I forget the brand it comes in a plastic carton, like a big milk one). When I lived at home she was still quite young so would use the tray quite often and I've never noticed the laundry smelling.
we have an inside cat and we use the crystals because i hated the smell with the paper... i hate the crystals though because they hurt when you stand on them lol
We use the clumping - Max's brand I think? Very low odour! But it's a bit different to what you're currently using, so I'd be introducing it to the cats slowly - putting about a quarter in and the rest the newspaper, then going up to half, then 3/4 until you're fully across to the new litter - cats can be finicky creatures.
Our cats don't eat the clumping litter, but our dog does (ughs).
I use the recycled 'breeders choice'. We have a hutch litter tray and i keep an automatic deo spray near the litter.
The problem with the crystals is some cats, especially kittens will eat their litter at some point. The crystals could end them up in bowel surgery. Where as the paper varieties will defiantly pass.
I use the Ozpet clumping one. It looks like little brown logs. They use it but go outside a bit also. I have deo spray near it as well but my mle cat pees everywhere so it's hard to tell if the tray smells or not???
We use the catsan crystals and they are pretty good. Although, they say that it should last 4 weeks - there is NO WAY that it lasts us 4 weeks, we have to change it weekly!!
We use Breeders Choice paper & feed our cats chicken necks every night - there has been a dramatic reduction in smell since we stopped giving them tinned food!
i have two indoor cats and i also use the crystals. we did use clumping and found it absobed well but didnt mask the smell at all. the crystals do last a little bit longer than paper and clumping, and hides the smell for longer but i found it to be not very absorbent and thats why it needs to be changes weekly (even though the packet says it should last 2-4 weeks - bollocks) my cats dont eat it either and we did change from paper to clumping to crystals fairly close together but it didnt phase them at all
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