I ordered this to be used with the Feline Arm and Hammer pine pellets. Looked easy enough but there was a learning curve for both myself and Echo Gabriel - my cat.
Instructions on how to transition from straight clump litter to the pellets are easy to follow. But things went downhill from there.
First my kitten was taking the pellets out and swatting them all around the house and sometimes would even be chewing on the pellets. That worried me because I was concerned about him developing an obstruction in his stomach or intestines.
Second trying to sift the pellets was not easy at least for me. It made lots of dust, pellets would get stuck in the openings and inevitably litter would spill onto the floor. I was not a happy camper. However I was determined to make this work because it did the one thing I wanted the most and that was eliminate odors. And when I say eliminate odors I mean zero stench as in zip, zilch, nada, nothing.
So I decided I needed to figure out a way to use the pine pellets so that I could do the sifting with minimal dust and not have to stop every nano second to clear out the pellets that were getting stuck and hindering the sifting process.
Second I needed to find a way to discourage Echo from playing his game of swatting pellets all over the house, and then chewing them up.
My solution was to use an old fashioned blender. I would take no more than a cup at a time of the whole pellets and alternate between grinding and grating . This allowed me to control the consistency of what was now becoming a sort of pine litter/sawdust.
At first I only made enough to fill a 2 gallon container with this sawdust. I wanted to see if it would work and if Echo would accept the texture of this new litter.
To use I fill the litter box with a layer of approximately 3 inches of sawdust and then add about a cup and a half of Fresh step clumping litter.
Doing that significantly helps minimize dusting. But what I like the best is that it creates very loose sawdust clumps that I can quickly scoop out through your the day as needed without having to do the sifting every single time.
So basically how I manage the litter box is that throughout the day I just scoop and replenish litter as needed. The litter box stays clean, and there is absolutely no oder because of how the pine sawdust absorbs and effectively neutralizes any odor.
For sanitary reasons I sift and wash all basins out weekly. Then I just recycle back in the box the sifted litter replenishing as needed to ensure enough is in the box.
I dump the entire mixture at every 4 weeks, sanitize the bins and replace with a completely new batch of my pine sawdust mixture
Following this method has been been very effective in neutralizing any and all odors.
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Pet Mate 42036 Arm & Hammer Large Sifting Litter Pan
Make cleaning the litter box easier and faster with the Arm & Hammer Sifting Litter Pan. The unique design of the Sifting Litter Pan allows litter to pass through quickly and easily. Constructed of durable plastic with a reinforced bottom.
Treated with Microban for built in antimicrobial product protection. Comes with 1 sifting pan and 2 regular pans. No shaking or scooping required.
At a Glance:
- Swift clean-up
- Anti-microbials product protection
- Durable & sturdy
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To clean, pour the contents of the top dirty litter pan into the empty pan with the sifter tray on top. |
Lift the sift tray out of the second litter pan to sift clumps out of litter. |
Place the empty sifter tray into the empty litter pan. Place litter pan with now cleaned litter on top. Add more clean litter as needed. |
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GREAT for pine pellet litter box!!!!
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2018
We are a cat loving family, and have 3. I bought this litter box after being incredibly frustrated with the horrible ongoing litter box smell in our home, plus the fact that we spend so much money every month on cat litter. We tried many sprays, powders, and scented scoopable litters, but nothing got rid of the smell. We were also tired of stepping on litter around the litter box constantly regardless of the fact that we had a fully enclosed litter box and would sweep around it more than once a day.How to:Purchase "Pine Pellet Bedding". We got a 40lb bag from Tractor Supply for $5.99. Line the bottom tray with a garbage bag (our normal drawstring tall kitchen bags work for this). Fill the top tray with the pine pellets. In order to make this work, you have to put some wood chunks or something similar, on the bottom tray under the plastic bag liner (see pic). Just make sure the wood is thick enough to ensure there is a couple of inches between the two trays.Each time you scoop the box (for poop), you shake the top tray around and all of the "urine dust" falls and is collected in the bottom tray. When the cat/s urinate in the box, it causes the pellets to immediately reduce to a dust. We have been using this set up for over a week and still not had to change out the plastic bag liner in the bottom tray, there is zero urine scent.The best part of this set up, in my opinion, is the fact that you never have to change out all of the pellets. You just keep adding new pellets in as needed. With our old traditional litter box set up, I would have to dump all of the litter at least once a week and refill due to the odor. We have been using this set up for over a week and I have not smelled any cat urine smell whatsoever! When the cat/s poop, that has to be scooped out and tossed like in a normal litter box- because the poop does not get covered in litter, it does smell a little worse than a traditional litter box.There is a light pine smell due to the pellets, and overall the box smells so much better than our old traditional box (but when the cat/s poop, you want to get it out as soon as you can due to smell). I occasionally find some pellets that have been kicked out of the box but nothing compared to the amount of litter that would be kicked out throughout each day- and this is an open box as opposed to our old enclosed box.My experience with this set up has been GREAT. I wouldn't even think about going back to our old litter box set up. We will also be saving so much money every month it's ridiculous.Maybe now we can get a couple more cats? LOL.
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2018
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Lou
Way too small, not suitable for adult cats, misleading advertising
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 20, 2022
It's supposed to be 18.8 inches or about 48cm and that's only true if you measure the outside from above. Inside it's more like 40cm which is too small for any cat except a kitten. From the side it's about 35cm. This is in no way a "large" litterbox.
Considering the size, it's way too expensive. I wouldn't buy again.
The plastic is sturdy at least, so this would be suitable for a kitten.
I don't understand why it's so hard finding sifting litter boxes and why they have to come from the US.
I'm going to make some holes in an old litterbox myself to replace this one.
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Good litter tray
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 22, 2019
