• girl@lemm.ee
    13·
    1 year ago

    If you want no dust then some kind of pellet litter would be best, like corn or pine pellets. My cats hate that texture though, so we had to find one with a similar texture to clay litter. I worked at a pet supply/food store for a couple years and tried a bunch of litters, nothing with a granular texture is truly dust-free, and I found clay litter claims of being “low dust” to be complete bullshit. I settled on Sustainably Yours Large Grain litter, it’s corn based. The large grain really reduces the dust, I get a little bit when emptying the bag but the large grain doesn’t throw dust when they dig around in it. It also clumps pretty well.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      I have an auto litter box so it has to work with that too, sorry, should have provided that. Im sure they all mostly do

      • girl@lemm.ee
        5·
        1 year ago

        The large grain litter I mentioned should be fine enough for an auto litter box to sift. Definitely not pellets though.

          • girl@lemm.ee
            2·
            1 year ago

            My local pet store, but you can find it online. It’s definitely more expensive than clay cat litter, absolutely nothing will be as cheap as clay. My cats have special medical needs though, the dust from even “low dust” litter gives them horrible coughing attacks, so we just have to budget for the more expensive litter.

  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    1 year 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.

    • BertramDitore@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • BertramDitore@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            1 year ago

            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!

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 year ago

        Oh, not for you, then!

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

  • kool_newt@lemm.ee
    5·
    1 year ago

    “Sustainably Yours” is the best I’ve tried. It’s even endorsed by Jackson Galaxy.

    • BloodSlut@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      I actually cant stand it, it doesnt make any visible dust but whenever I had cleaned out the litter box (or even someone else doing it in a completely different room of the house) it felt like it was desiccating my lungs and airways. It was horrible.

  • pelletbucket@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 year ago

    1. wood pellet. if you buy it packaged for horse stall bedding instead of cat litter you can get 40 lb for $6. requires a special litter box because it’s different from the clump and scoop type.

    2. if you don’t want to change your litter box, you want Naturally Fresh Walnut shell Quick Clumping. please remember not to use clumping litter with small kittens

    • ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      In my experience this type of litter is the best (clay clumping pellets) with the automatic litterbox. I usually go for one of the super turbo ultra types instead of unscented. I have 5 cats on it, it works the best for us even when the robot is out for cleaning and they’re going in the box again.

      Pretty litter is good but marginally less useful the more cats are going in it, and the dust it kicks up is invisible but still irritating and clumps kinda badly. I only use it if I really need to diagnose a UTI but it’s been over half a year now since I bought a bag.

  • not_that_guy05@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Just get the crystal litter from Walmart. They are 10 a small bag 14 for big. I also have an automated cat litter. Only dust when I dump the whole thing out and that’s minimal.

  • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    I use arm and hammer “slide” which is basically sand. It won’t have that clay dust, but there are bound to be a few particles. The clay stuff bothered my nose, but this did not. So, maybe it would work for you