Sterilite Clears for Litter Boxes?

[John Popp]

Interesting Patti, I've been using 2-40lb bags of scoopable, drawing a line where the one bag level is and then adding a second bag as needed. Never thought about the cats tipping them over, but I've seen them do crazier things.

 

[Patti]

That's a lot of litter. I change mine out every week so don't use nearly as much.

 

[John Popp]

That's a lot of litter. I change mine out every week so don't use nearly as much.

It's not really that much as I never need to dump it, just scoop out the urine balls and the chestnut colored gems. When it's down to my fill line I just add a full bag. Again, I never need to do a wholesale litter change which has cut my litter expense in half plus made the litter boxes much more tidy.

 

[Brigitte Cowell]

Your method works, John, unless you ever have an issue with a fecal pathogen... changing the litter completely every week means that you remove contamination. It's one of the ways that Coronavirus for example can be really harbored in higher levels in a cattery or multicat situation ... I can see how it may work in a small pet household UNLESS one of the cats gets a gastrointestinal infection...

Being a microbiologist, I change all the litterboxes every week, the boxes are bleached in between changes, and even the litter scoops and their holders are bleached.

 

[John Popp]

Thanks Brigitte! If I were in a larger multi-cat household or had the stand up pee'r I would be more concerned. When I did have the stand up corner pee'r, twice or three times daily I removed the side of the box stuck urine balls and wiped the spot down with a bleach solution and change out the litter with some regularity.

Simply just not providing an environment where these pathogen can propagate or survive very well with a single cat. If the pathogens are surviving in our litter box, I have an equally big issue with bedding and carpeting.

 

[Brigitte Cowell]

Not really, it is in the litterbox that most of the fecal pathogens are deposited...and not all is in the big lumps of feces. But with a single cat then they are only able to reinfect themselves...