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Reducing dust from cat litter
I recently started using supermarket gravel litter for my two cats. They
made the switch from their old litter painlessly but I find that this litter produces a fair amount of dust. I find the dust seems to stick in my throat. I'm not having difficulty breathing and have no allergies that I know about but I don't much LIKE the dust. Is there anything inexpensive I can do to keep the amount of dust down? Would spritzing the litter with water occasionally help or would it make the litter unattractive to the cats? Also, is there any likelihood that the dust will harm me if I just ignore the dust and live with it? I'm not sure if you can answer that without an ingredient list but I'm guessing that most gravel litter has the same ingredients regardless of the brand. -- Rhino --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com |
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Reducing dust from cat litter
"Rhino" wrote in message ... I recently started using supermarket gravel litter for my two cats. They made the switch from their old litter painlessly but I find that this litter produces a fair amount of dust. I find the dust seems to stick in my throat. I'm not having difficulty breathing and have no allergies that I know about but I don't much LIKE the dust. Is there anything inexpensive I can do to keep the amount of dust down? Would spritzing the litter with water occasionally help or would it make the litter unattractive to the cats? Also, is there any likelihood that the dust will harm me if I just ignore the dust and live with it? I'm not sure if you can answer that without an ingredient list but I'm guessing that most gravel litter has the same ingredients regardless of the brand. -- Rhino --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com I use tidy cat multi very little dust. Wal-Mart has it pretty cheap. if you have a sams club they sell it for 50 pound bag for about $8.00. A member years ago name Phil. He said take a empty container and pour the bag of cat litter back and forth to get rid of all the extra dust from the cheaper brands |
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On 2013-11-30 1:08 PM, Matthew wrote:
"Rhino" wrote in message ... I recently started using supermarket gravel litter for my two cats. They made the switch from their old litter painlessly but I find that this litter produces a fair amount of dust. I find the dust seems to stick in my throat. I'm not having difficulty breathing and have no allergies that I know about but I don't much LIKE the dust. Is there anything inexpensive I can do to keep the amount of dust down? Would spritzing the litter with water occasionally help or would it make the litter unattractive to the cats? Also, is there any likelihood that the dust will harm me if I just ignore the dust and live with it? I'm not sure if you can answer that without an ingredient list but I'm guessing that most gravel litter has the same ingredients regardless of the brand. -- Rhino --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com I use tidy cat multi very little dust. Wal-Mart has it pretty cheap. if you have a sams club they sell it for 50 pound bag for about $8.00. For what it's worth, I went to Walmart and they have a variety of cat litters but NOT Tidy Cat. I checked two different Walmarts and neither one carried Tidy Cat. I'm in Southern Ontario (Canada) so I suspect the Canadian Walmarts use different suppliers than the American stores. I imagine that would work but it seems to me it just "time shifts" the dust. Instead of getting dust every time the cats use the litter, you get it all in a concentrated dose as you shift the litter back and forth between containers.... Hmm. I see Pet Smart sells Tidy Cats litter. $7.99 for a 40 pound bag. Weird: they quote the price in US dollars even though this is the Canadian website.... The Canadian dollar is still close to par with the US so it should still be close to 7.99 Canadian. A member years ago name Phil. He said take a empty container and pour the bag of cat litter back and forth to get rid of all the extra dust from the cheaper brands I imagine that would work but it seems to me it just "time shifts" the dust. Instead of getting dust every time the cats use the litter, you get it all in a concentrated dose as you shift the litter back and forth between containers.... Hmm. I see Pet Smart sells Tidy Cats litter. $7.99 for a 40 pound bag. Weird: they quote the price in US dollars even though this is the Canadian website.... The Canadian dollar is still close to par with the US so it should still be close to 7.99 Canadian. -- Rhino --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com |
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Reducing dust from cat litter
Rhino wrote:
On 2013-11-30 1:08 PM, Matthew wrote: "Rhino" wrote in message ... I recently started using supermarket gravel litter for my two cats. They made the switch from their old litter painlessly but I find that this litter produces a fair amount of dust. I find the dust seems to stick in my throat. I'm not having difficulty breathing and have no allergies that I know about but I don't much LIKE the dust. Is there anything inexpensive I can do to keep the amount of dust down? Would spritzing the litter with water occasionally help or would it make the litter unattractive to the cats? Also, is there any likelihood that the dust will harm me if I just ignore the dust and live with it? I'm not sure if you can answer that without an ingredient list but I'm guessing that most gravel litter has the same ingredients regardless of the brand. -- Rhino --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com I use tidy cat multi very little dust. Wal-Mart has it pretty cheap. if you have a sams club they sell it for 50 pound bag for about $8.00. For what it's worth, I went to Walmart and they have a variety of cat litters but NOT Tidy Cat. I checked two different Walmarts and neither one carried Tidy Cat. I'm in Southern Ontario (Canada) so I suspect the Canadian Walmarts use different suppliers than the American stores. I imagine that would work but it seems to me it just "time shifts" the dust. Instead of getting dust every time the cats use the litter, you get it all in a concentrated dose as you shift the litter back and forth between containers.... Hmm. I see Pet Smart sells Tidy Cats litter. $7.99 for a 40 pound bag. Weird: they quote the price in US dollars even though this is the Canadian website.... The Canadian dollar is still close to par with the US so it should still be close to 7.99 Canadian. A member years ago name Phil. He said take a empty container and pour the bag of cat litter back and forth to get rid of all the extra dust from the cheaper brands I imagine that would work but it seems to me it just "time shifts" the dust. Instead of getting dust every time the cats use the litter, you get it all in a concentrated dose as you shift the litter back and forth between containers.... Try vacuumi8ng the litter through a screen before you deploy it to the cats. That may keep the dust down that accumulates during transit, and be easier for you to handle. |
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Reducing dust from cat litter
On 11/30/2013 12:43 PM, Rhino wrote:
I recently started using supermarket gravel litter for my two cats. They made the switch from their old litter painlessly but I find that this litter produces a fair amount of dust. ............There is no non-clumping litter that doesn't have dust. Even the clumping litter is dusty. The only non-dusty one I've found is Tidy Cats Breathe Easy. Expensive, but with only two cats highly worth it. buglady take out the dog before replying |
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Reducing dust from cat litter
On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 13:08:01 -0500, "Matthew"
wrote: "Rhino" wrote in message ... I recently started using supermarket gravel litter for my two cats. They made the switch from their old litter painlessly but I find that this litter produces a fair amount of dust. I find the dust seems to stick in my throat. I'm not having difficulty breathing and have no allergies that I know about but I don't much LIKE the dust. Is there anything inexpensive I can do to keep the amount of dust down? Would spritzing the litter with water occasionally help or would it make the litter unattractive to the cats? Also, is there any likelihood that the dust will harm me if I just ignore the dust and live with it? I'm not sure if you can answer that without an ingredient list but I'm guessing that most gravel litter has the same ingredients regardless of the brand. -- Rhino --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com I use tidy cat multi very little dust. Wal-Mart has it pretty cheap. if you have a sams club they sell it for 50 pound bag for about $8.00. A member years ago name Phil. He said take a empty container and pour the bag of cat litter back and forth to get rid of all the extra dust from the cheaper brands I'll have to try that. My litter is ok but my neighbor has tons of dust so I'll see if it works for her stuff. |
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Reducing dust from cat litter
dgk wrote:
On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 13:08:01 -0500, "Matthew" wrote: "Rhino" wrote in message ... I recently started using supermarket gravel litter for my two cats. They made the switch from their old litter painlessly but I find that this litter produces a fair amount of dust. I find the dust seems to stick in my throat. I'm not having difficulty breathing and have no allergies that I know about but I don't much LIKE the dust. Is there anything inexpensive I can do to keep the amount of dust down? Would spritzing the litter with water occasionally help or would it make the litter unattractive to the cats? Also, is there any likelihood that the dust will harm me if I just ignore the dust and live with it? I'm not sure if you can answer that without an ingredient list but I'm guessing that most gravel litter has the same ingredients regardless of the brand. -- Rhino --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com I use tidy cat multi very little dust. Wal-Mart has it pretty cheap. if you have a sams club they sell it for 50 pound bag for about $8.00. A member years ago name Phil. He said take a empty container and pour the bag of cat litter back and forth to get rid of all the extra dust from the cheaper brands I'll have to try that. My litter is ok but my neighbor has tons of dust so I'll see if it works for her stuff. Do this outside while facing downwind. this is how they used to seperate the wheat from the chaff. It should work well with cat litter dust. |
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