Question: Where/how does one dispose of cat litter in Taiwan?
An entire box full of litter weighs maybe 10-20 pounds. Do you pour all that into a blue bag for the garbage truck?
That’s what I do, but having let it accumulate I now find myself with 2 or 3 times that amount and I’m afraid the bag(s) will break and I’ll be stuck standing on the sidewalk with my shoes covered in cat poop.
I’m not gonna sneak out in the night and dump it around the trees in the park.
Seems that we’ve somehow adopted a feline this week, so also interested. I suppose you could double-bag a large amount, but that’s wasteful on the plastic bag side.
We throw it in the garbage, but we have garbage service in the building. There are some cat litter’s that are designed to be flushed. We tried one once and it flushed okay, but didn’t cover odor as well, so we didn’t stick with it. Perhaps experiment with a few brands of the flushable variety and see if any are suitable.
Don’t put all the litter in one bag and double bag the bags you do use? I mean, how is this any different from any other garbage?
Btw I now use a German wood chip brand and it is brilliant. It clumps but gives off zero dust. And it absorbs odors very well. My cats never pee outside the box now.
I use the wood pellets also but none of the brands that I have used clumped. But this stuff is also awesome for the reasons that the OP is struggling with. You scoop the poop into the toilet and stir up the rest so it will dry. Very little odor. No dust although it becomes sawdust (not dusty).
I use 3 boxes for 2 cats and every week or so I empty a box that has become too used and I don’t even notice the weight in the garbage bag. Cats seem to prefer the sand litter but I haven’t had a problem getting cats to switch.
Have had cats for 15 years. I use the liter made from corn now. Although flushable, I don’t flush the pee balls. Those go in the trash. I flush the poopoo. I change out the whole box once a month.
It usually goes in the garbage, the whole lot. Wash and dry and refill with fresh liter at least once a month. Even with the clumping liter.
Empty your trash daily and you shouldn’t have a pee smell in the house (so long as your male cat is neutered - they have less smell).
I found this the best solution. Rather then use the clay non clumping (which has to be replaced entirely once every few days). And better then the clumping clay as well.
Clay makes dust all over the house. The ones made from corn have less dust.
Try them, you won’t go back.
p…s I tried the dessicants too. The plastic balls. But those are not flushable (not even poo poo because balls stick to them) and they dont work very well after a few days.
How is this different from other trash? It’s a huge heavy bag of gravel, unlike my regular little accumulations of apple peels and egg shells and other small light stuff. We scoop poop/pee twice a day and tie it in sandwich bags that we throw in the bathroom trash bin till we’re ready to take them out. The weight of those is tolerable, but every few weeks when we dump the whole tray full of dirty litter, to replace it, THAT is a heavy bag. Nonetheless, I guess there’s only one answer – double bag it and dump it in blue bags.
As for flushing it, some Taiwan plumbing can’t handle TP; I couldn’t imagine dumping gravel in the drain.
Nobody is suggesting dumping gravel down the toilet. There are wood pellet cat litters that work quite well and eliminate all of the problems that you are having. 3 people have suggested this (1 was corn).
Well, several people did suggest flushing. I didn’t realize that only pertains to the wood pellet type and not the clumping sand. Thanks. Maybe we’ll try that next, though I’m reluctant to change to something completely different for fear that (a) she’ll reject it, and (b) then I’ll have one more giant bag of litter to dispose of.
I’m lucky that my cat isn’t really that picky about cat litter. She can use the ball kind, the disintegrate pine litter, clumping pine litter, tofu litter, paper litter, or whatever I throw at her. Although when I put multiple litters out at the same time, the clumping pine litter is clearly her favorite. As a result, since I don’t actually use sand-based litter, I flush the clumps down the toilet. When time is up to throw it all out, I used two trash bags to bag it, and throw it in the community dumpster.
I have four cats. I triple bag and use a 14 capacity bag in a pedal lid waste basket. Arm and Hammer multiple cat litter box, 5 litter boxes in total, all lined with a layer of Arm and Hammer litterbox deodorizer, all set in the balcony.
I so much wish the cats could also take the raw meat diet…
I so much wish the cats could also take the raw meat diet…[/quote]
My cat has been on that for a couple of months. Although her annual checkup revealed that her kidney numbers slightly higher then normal. The vet said prescription cat food, I decided to just let her drink more water. To get her to drink the water, I give her all chicken can food that she like, save a tiny bit and mix that into her raw meet for dinner. I add water to both that adds up to about 100mg worth of additional water. Going back for a checkup this weekend. Hope her numbers return to normal.
Tommy, just so you know, there are a lot of reports of the corn going toxic in the presence of moisture. Which yeah, is the normal condition of a litter box.
I switched to wood after I read enough credible reports on the dangers of corn.
Astonishingly, on one cat supply blog they claim they contacted the company abotu this and the reply was that in their tests the corn did not go toxic but may “in the presence of moisture.” Seriously, WTF?
the toxicity is caused by aflatoxin, which is a type of mold. It’s also common in a lot of the foods both for humans and pets. Peanuts frequently gets aflatoxin growth and can cause serious damages to the human body. Dry pet food left too long in the damp environment also can get aflatoxin growth, and damages pets’ liver and kidneys.
Hadn’t heard about the corn liter going toxic. That is new to me. I do carefully get rid of all the pee spots, even tiny ones. So the liter should be quite dry. I’ve been using it for years to no ill effect.
I have only one cat and even so I completely empty the tray and clean and dry and put fresh liter in, once a month. The rest of the time i refill as needed.
Was using clumping clay for years. And there is a lot of clay dust in the house, which i probably breathed as well. Used the pellets from old newspapers, used pine pellets (they don’t clump as well, just reduce to fine dust). And so far, the liter from corn is the best performing all around.
As for water. Yes they say it’s best to never even give dry food. Cans or the raw diet is the way.
My cat won’t eat anything else PERIOD, other then dry food. And he is specific as to what brand.
But luckily i have been taking to adding a bit of water to each of his meals (he gets 3 scoops divided into something like ten mini meals). So this way he is actually drinking about a cup of water a day.
Which is good. He was drinking quite a lot from his bowl anyway. But this is one way to make sure he is drinking a lot of water.
He won’t eat canned food, but adding a bit of water to his dry food at each feeding seems to work.
