• Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    World’s Best clumps and is unscented. It’s corn, so there’s no clay or silica dust, but it does make its own kind of corn dust, which my previous cat tracked everywhere after thoroughly digging and burying. My present cat just tiptoes in, pees, poos, and tiptoes away, leaving the poo perched proud. It gets my attention to scoop it! But at least no dust gets tracked.

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      It’s also fully flushable, since it’s just corn. I can’t stress how amazingly convenient that is. I scoop and toss the solids and clumps straight into the toilet, add my own waste if necessary, and flush. No heavy garbage bags filled with gross stinky clay. Never had an issue with plumbing since the clumps break up straight away on contact with the water. I’ve been using it for about a decade. Imo this is one product that lives up to its stupid name.

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        I’m afraid I need to contradict you. It is technically flushable. Certainly better than anything else out there! But depending where one lives, it can cause problems and one can’t just blithely flush it all down.

        For instance, I’m in an apartment building built in 1970, in a state with low-flush toilets and low-flow fixtures. The drains were built for more water and less stuff. And if they clog it’s not only my problem, it can affect everyone in the stack. Learned this the hard way, although there was probably more than the litter to blame.

        So I do flush the poo, with the litter coating it. But I scoop the pee clumps into those little green bags and put them in the trash. The bags and litter might be compostable but I’m not sure about the pee, and we don’t have compost collection set up yet anyway. At least being able to flush the poo is a lifesaver!

        I’m also not 100% sure about old septic systems.

        I’m happy for you that it works fine for you! You’re living the dream, dude! And with cats!

        It’s just that others’ mileage may vary.

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          Ah that’s useful info, thanks! I’ve lived in the same apartment for as long as I’ve been using the litter, so it’s totally possible that I’ve just gotten lucky with my particular plumbing. Now that I know there could be problems for my neighbors, I’ll ask my landlord to see if he’s noticed any issues over the years.

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            I live on the first of 7 floors (my floor is the concrete slab over the garage) so mostly it’s me who gets the backup if there’s trouble in my stack.

            Just got through Thanksgiving without calling a plumber this year because I posted a note in the mailroom reminding folks to please put their vegetable peels and food scraps in the garbage can, not down the sink!

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      11 months ago

      And they make a low track version, basically bigger grains. Our cat drags out considerably less litter now, though some cats might not like the texture on their paws.

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        Oh, not for you, then!

        I think, as with anything involving cats, individual situations vary a lot, so different solutions are required.

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      Some cats may have allergies to it though so watch your cat closely after switching. You also need to stay on top of scooping it as it has a higher propensity to mold.

      • We used World’s Best for years. At one point we had a cat who was exhibiting some potty-related behavioral issues, and in desperation I brought in some clay litter (BoxieCat). 3 cats, 6 litterboxes¹: I replaced one litterbox with clay, and they all immediately stopped using the ones filled with World’s Best. I reduced it down to a single box of WB and they still wouldn’t use it.

        I have no idea why, but it solved the potty problem.

        ¹: My first attempt to address the issue was to keep adding litterboxes so they had choice.