No Rocks; Feline Pine Rocks
Posted in daily on Mar 16th, 2008
Speaking of cat litter (and who can resist the topic of cat poo on a Sunday afternoon?). . .
The latest two-month-tested household product, Biscuit-approved:
Feline Pine Scoop is made of pine sawdust with guargum (according to the company, Nature’s Earth) that clumps like clay litter, but with a lot less bulk and is “100% renewable and biodegradable.” (It’s still effectively not biodegradable, at least for me, since I still throw it in a plastic bag in the regular trash.) This stuff works as well as clay litter in my opinion, producing featherweight orbs of sawdust instead of clay rocks. I’ve tried paper-based*, and wheat-based environmentally-friendly litters in the past, but like the pine product the best. The paper kind doesn’t give the odor control of pine and the wheat kind doesn’t clump so well and leaves a lot of tracking. The company website has a special offer now (through March 31, 2008) for a free bag/box. Try it out and send in the rebate for the value of the purchase price. A 4 lb. box (keep in mind that sawdust is quite a bit lighter than clay) is $4.99 at Target.
*Pet peeve (no pun intended): The recycled paper litter is itself packaged in plastic–great, hi, you don’t make sense anymore. Feline Pine Scoop comes in a cardboard box–Great! Hi, bed of pine!