Do the pellets expand and crumble apart from the urine? I currently use pine litter which do crumble apart and make sifting the litter very easy.
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I use the pellets for my rabbit. They do not crumble or expand. I don't sift the pellets because a rabbit is different than a cat. The pellets do absorb the water because they are paper. No smell. Yes rabbits can be litter train. Good luck.
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They do expand but do not crumble apart. We like this much better than the pine or clay products on the market.
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It does not crumble apart nor expand that much. Usually have to dump it all
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Where there is a concentration of urine, the entire spot becomes saturated. I simply pull the dry litter off the top of the spot, then lift out the entire are of saturated litter into my bag. Then I cover the spot with the dry litter that surrounds the spot. I have 19 litter boxes. I clean them once a day (unless there is a solid deposit that is inside the main house). I love this litter!
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I find they expand when wet and they do crumple when sifting which is harder to scoop up with a litter scoop , if it didn't crumple it would be so much easier to clean
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Hi Tammie, . If anything they absorb. I had to use the pellets once and because they've wood shavings that's what they'll do.Good Mews is made from 100% recycled paper. They've a little bit harder to scoop up but there better for the environment and the cat. Hope that was a help to you. Enjoy, Charlotte Donnan
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Yes, they do get soft, you have to wait a bit. Sometimes it is wet underneath, but dry on top, I find that slightly annoying. I've never used anything else.
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I would recommend using any kind of clumping litter. If the pine litter is not clumping, then I wouldn't recommend it. I currently use Scoop Away Clumping Litter. It seems to do a really good job. The biggest difference between the Litter Robot and a normal litter box is there is no smell with the Litter Robot. We have it in our laundry room, and before my wife was afraid to hang clothes to dry in there when we had a regular litter box because they would smell like the litter box. Now, you wouldn't even know it is there.
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I have no experience with wood pellets. I can only say FP is better, from many perspectives than clay. Does wood absorb urine?
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Hello ..... just make sure you do not put too much litter in the box. This is the most inexpensive and the best "automatic" litter box I have used and nothing mechanical to break down. You will always get some litter (mostly wet which is heavier) in the tray and finding the right amount will greatly help. Clear the litter about every two days and try to clean the box and put in fresh litter every week, very two weeks at the most. Every time you clear the litter you may have to put in some more for the lost litter but don't over do it.
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I use Natures Miracle intense defense clumping cat litter (PetSmart). It comes in a 40 lb bag (It may come smaller-- havent looked). I saved back a couple of Tidy Cats jugs (Tidy Cats DOSENT Work for me) and put the Matures Miracle in them for handy use. I have 2 litter boxes 1 upstairs and one downstairs and the stuff really works! if the hopper is stinky just put a cup or so of the litter in it the Contious Clean does a very good job of sifting out unclumped litter and only a bit of the loose stuff ends up in the hopper. Sometimes thats not enough to control the stinky stuff. Also I have the boxes on timers that runs 2 hours twice a day. I got those at Home Depot the 2 pack of GE times was only about $10.00. I think having the box run 4 hours a day instead of 24 hours a day will help extend the life of the things and having the waste sit buried with litter may help kill the odor. (Dosen't keep things stirred up all the time.)
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I would still recommend bedding. I use Feline Pine for mine. There are cheaper equivalents out there and they all work great. When the pellets get wet they turn into a powder and dry into dust. I still have some stains on the bottom but we've never had anything leak through. I found using this type of product as a bedding greatly reduces any smells that can get trapped in them. I would stay away from anything that just absorbs it like cloth products because although it absorbs it the smell stays in that cloth. I say "yes" to bedding.
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As soon as it gets wet because the pellets expand similar to a tampon. The good thing is that you don't need very much litter at all. Just a shallow layer on the base of the pan works perfectly. My 26-pound bag lasted about 7 weeks. I changed the litter 2-3 times a day for my 4lb rabbit.
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Here in Japan, these system toilets are popular and there a number of products you can use in them, not just one brand or lineup.Recently I have seen pellets that look like the regular ones--wood chip pellets, but they dissolve slowly. So with urine, the urine is absorbed and forms a saw dust that falls to the compartment below. I am trying these chips now instead of the totally non-absorbent ones.
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Yes. We use Fresh Step Crystals. When the crystals start turning green and chalky white all you have to do is dump them and add clean crystals. Crystals go through the grate, but don't get stuck like clumping litters do. Sometimes wet crystals get stuck to the bottom of the tray, but this is usually due to the time. If you you leave it - next time you sift the clump will be gone. It just takes time for urine to be dried up especially if you have multiple cats like we do. So far this has been the best type of litter we've tried in the smartsift.
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I have used the crystals as a basis for the non-clumping litter. It keeps the litter odor free, it absorbs the urine in the litter box. I woould ecommend it to anyone who would like to use non-clumpling litter such as Fresh Step and others.
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My experience has been completely different. I use the pellets on other smells because works so well. When our cats both elected to use a houseplant instead of the litter box I put a layer of pellets in the pot. The smell was gone. (side benefit was the cats both switched back to the litter box) I even put a layer of the pellets in the litter at the bottom of our cage for our three rats and it cut the urine smell considerably. A friend even asked if we had gotten rid of the rats because she didn't smell them any more. There's also a spray called Nature's Miracle. We use it for all the animals and it's great. For the poop smell we keep a covered trash can next to the box. Hope it helps. My experience has been completely different. I use the pellets on other smells because works so well. When our cats both elected to use a houseplant instead of the litter box I put a layer of pellets in the pot. The smell was gone. (side benefit was the cats both switched back to the litter box) I even put a layer of the pellets in the litter at the bottom of our cage for our three rats and it cut the urine smell considerably. A friend even asked if we had gotten rid of the rats because she didn't smell them any more. There's also a spray called Nature's Miracle. We use it for all the... » Read More My experience has been completely different. I use the pellets on other smells because works so well. When our cats both elected to use a houseplant instead of the litter box I put a layer of pellets in the pot. The smell was gone. (side benefit was the cats both switched back to the litter box) I even put a layer of the pellets in the litter at the bottom of our cage for our three rats and it cut the urine smell considerably. A friend even asked if we had gotten rid of the rats because she didn't smell them any more. There's also a spray called Nature's Miracle. We use it for all the animals and it's great. For the poop smell we keep a covered trash can next to the box. Hope it helps. « Show Less
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I actually use another brand of litter but I think it has to be crystals. I know that a clumping brand would not work. Hope that helps.
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Pine pellets are pretty high in phenols which adversely affect my Rabbit's health. I use the fresh scent and it doesn't seem to bother my bunnies. I researched it a while back and found it was less harmful that fabric softener. I wish I could show you where I found the info, but it was a few years ago, and I've been using this product since with no complications if that helps.
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After some trial and error I found the BEST litter to use is Ultra/LitterPearls microcrystals! (I have 5 cats using this litter box and my visitors can't smell it!!). It absorbs great and they dont get scraped into the disposal hole by the scraper.
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I don't use it anymore because my cat died after 18 yrs. but I also looked for alternatives and I think anything that doesn't drop through the holes would work. I will be looking for an alternative when I get another cat. Love the system, but the pellets are too rough on their paws. I say try it!!
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I think it'd be okay to flush a few pellets (for example, sweeping stray ones off the floor) but I wouldn't dispose of large amounts in the toilet. I just dump the entire contents of the litter box every other day (no scooping-- just throw everything away). Refilling the box with a thin layer of these pellets every other day is comparable in price to carving out pee blocks from clumping cat litter, or sifting poops from the crystals, and it's much easier.
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the whole tray is slotted. I don't have any idea how big pine pellets are though. Take a look at a bag of safflower seeds and if the pine pellets are bigger than those you should be alright to use it. Don't use anything smaller than a safflower seed though, the smaller litter would fall through the slots but would not make it into the removable bin and you would have to clean the bottom portion of the box more often.