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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A list of pros and cons, February 8, 2009
I loved, loved, LOVED this product when I first started using it, but I'm now researching other brands. I'll list my pros and cons and let you be the judge. First the background: I have two indoor cats for the first time in my life. I've always had indoor/outdoor cats. I've also used regular (non-clumping) clay litter for years as that is what my older cats preferred. I decided to add a box with clumping litter after months of constantly hauling large bags of the clay litter to keep up with two indoor cats. Feline Pine Scoop was my first try.
Pros
- Awesome odor control. For weeks after first filling the box, the whole room smelled like nice fresh pine. (This would obviously be a "con" for someone who doesn't like a pine smell. :-) ) The pine smell faded, but the odor control remains excellent.
- I put a new box filled with this litter next to the old, non-clumping litter box, and the cats started using it the very first night. They still use both about equally.
- It is supposedly more environmentally friendly than clay. The litter is made of biodegradable pine; however, putting it in a plastic bag before putting it into a landfill would pretty much negate any biodegradable properties of the product! Also, the company says pine is more renewable than clay, but I can't comment on the accuracy of that.
- No dust!!
Cons
- The clumps are somewhat fragile. Maybe it's my amateur technique, but small parts break off when I'm shaking the scoop to separate the clump from the clean litter. (And, of course, if you hit a clump the wrong way in the process of scooping, it breaks apart easily.) The strong deodorant properties of this litter; however, nullify this as a big problem for me.
- Here is my main "con," and over the course of time it has become bigger and bigger. The small grains or flakes (or whatever one would call the smallest unit of manufactured pine litter) are very fine and lightweight; thus they track all over the house. The litter box is in a carpeted spare bedroom. The cats have to cover several inches of a very effective litter mat (when they don't jump over it) and several feet of carpet before they hit wood floors. Remnants of this litter end up all over. It has to be swept up from the wood floors daily, and it's getting to be a pain.
Sadly, it's this last "con" that has me researching other clumping litters. I love this litter otherwise, and I may come back to it. But for now, I'm on the hunt for a dust-free, deodorant, NON-TRACKING alternative.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not good for long-haired cats, February 26, 2009
Although I loved the odor control of this litter, I had to stop using it. My cat is long-haired, and every time he used the litter box the tiny pine particles would stick in his fur. Being a cat, and thus wanting to be exceptionally clean at all times, he would lick it all off. This, in turn, would cause him to throw up constantly. I know that it wasn't his food, because I hadn't changed it, and the vomiting started when I switched to feline pine scoopable and stopped when I switched back to my trusty clay clumping stand-by. So, alas, as much as I loved the excellent odor control of the pine and the fact that there was no harmful silica dust to breathe in while scooping it, I have switched back to clay, and resigned to hold my breath whilst scooping. Who knows, maybe it would work with a short-haired breed. It's worth a shot, you can always switch back.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
GREAT!!!!!!!!!!, January 19, 2009
We have always used a clay litter and the dust it produced was horrendous. I purchased the Feline Pine and although it took our 2 cats a couple of days to adjust, they accepted it and it is soooooo clean. No more DUST! Yeah!!!
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