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[Sorta OT] Dust buster question
Marina wrote:
I have a dustpan with a long handle, too. I also have a 'fake grass' plastic rug under the litterboxes. It seems to do a pretty good job of catching any stray litter. It has to be big enough that the cats have to step on it with all four paws before leaving the litterbox area. If you have a champion litter flinger, though, the rug won't be much help. Yep, I have the fake grass thing, too. It catches a lot of litter, but far from all of it. Somebody's a world-class flinger in my house, and it's a covered box, too. Joyce -- To send email to this address, remove the triple-X from my user name. |
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if I were thinking of this I would get one of those mechanical brooms, so
you wouldn't be close to the litter but no batteries to deal with and you release the litter straight into the trash. Lee wrote in message ... I just googled "dust buster" because I've never owned one and now I want to buy one. I see that Target sells them. So I just wanted to hear from you guys what you think of them. Every day, even after I've vacuumed the floors, I find cat litter strewn around the bathroom floor. I'd really like something easy to clean it up with, rather than having to lug out the big sucky monster, disturbing the local fauna, or sweep it up with my dustpan and broom, which isn't such a hardship, except that it does put me in closer contact with the litter. I'd prefer a bit more distance. Any recommendations? Any warnings? What works best for cat litter? What kind lasts the longest? It dosn't have to be the "Dustbuster" name brand, although if that's the best kind, I'll get that. I just want a small, hand-held, battery-run vacuum for the daily kitty litter in the bathroom. Thanks! Joyce -- To send email to this address, remove the triple-X from my user name. |
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Stormmee wrote:
if I were thinking of this I would get one of those mechanical brooms, so you wouldn't be close to the litter but no batteries to deal with and you release the litter straight into the trash. Lee What's a mechanical broom? If you mean what I used to call a "carpet sweeper", well, the problem with that is inherent in the name. My bathroom doesn't have a carpet. Joyce -- To send email to this address, remove the triple-X from my user name. |
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wrote in message ... I just googled "dust buster" because I've never owned one and now I want to buy one. I see that Target sells them. So I just wanted to hear from you guys what you think of them. Every day, even after I've vacuumed the floors, I find cat litter strewn around the bathroom floor. I'd really like something easy to clean it up with, rather than having to lug out the big sucky monster, disturbing the local fauna, or sweep it up with my dustpan and broom, which isn't such a hardship, except that it does put me in closer contact with the litter. I'd prefer a bit more distance. Any recommendations? Any warnings? What works best for cat litter? What kind lasts the longest? It dosn't have to be the "Dustbuster" name brand, although if that's the best kind, I'll get that. I just want a small, hand-held, battery-run vacuum for the daily kitty litter in the bathroom. I've kept a Dustbuster on its charger near the litter box for as long as I can remember. Charlie has a second one in the garage. I only use the 'dry' ones. Wet messes just make those kinds of things more work to clean than the original mess was in the first place. Just using them for a few seconds at a time all the time does mess with battery life. Every so often you do need to turn it on and let it run until the battery runs down. Jo |
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similar but made for hard surface floors, Lee
wrote in message ... Stormmee wrote: if I were thinking of this I would get one of those mechanical brooms, so you wouldn't be close to the litter but no batteries to deal with and you release the litter straight into the trash. Lee What's a mechanical broom? If you mean what I used to call a "carpet sweeper", well, the problem with that is inherent in the name. My bathroom doesn't have a carpet. Joyce -- To send email to this address, remove the triple-X from my user name. |
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Dust buster question
hopitus wrote:
I will put my champion ltterkicker up against your champ litter- flinger any day, Joyce. Ha - Licky is a flinger extraordinaire! The nice thing about the long-handled little broom and long-handles dustpan is that after "kicker" gets through, finally (he kicks litter for about 5 minutes!) I just grab the apparatus, "whisk, whisk" and dump it back in box without even having to bend over. Here's what I did: I brought the regular broom from the kitchen into the bathroom and swept all the litter into the corner. Then I picked it up with the regular dustpan and broom. That part required bending over, but I didn't have to *stay* bent over trying to pick it up from all over the floor. (Strange I never thought of doing this before...) So now the broom lives in the bathroom. I'm a little leery of the fake grass under-rug deal as I fear it might give some of the lazier felines here ideas and begin a smell-creating routine on their part. Actually, mine isn't made to look like grass. It's made of rubber, or some kind of soft plastic. The "grass" is just little nubs of plastic/ rubber sticking up about 1/3 of an inch from the surface. Nobody would actually think it was grass, so this might be different from what Marina was talking about. But it is designed to be a mat you put right in front of the litter box to capture most of the granules as they step out. It would work fine if not for the flinging. I know it's Licky because when he's in there, I can *hear* him doing it! He takes about 10 minutes to bury his deposits. Joyce -- To send email to this address, remove the triple-X from my user name. |
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My solution to kicked out cat litter works for me but probably
wouldn't work for anyone with a bigger flat. My Dyson is stored in the hallway just by the bathroom door so I pop the crevice tool on and run that over without moving the4 Dyson- takes seconds even with Sarsi who buries the evidence of her box visits as much as she can Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs |
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hopitus wrote:
Rowdous has even rushed in there before I close the door and in a short period of extreme bravery, *attacked* the Dyson as it stood in silence and nonthreatening stance, LOL. aww, what a brave boy! -- Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. |
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