We have 5 sweet (mostly) cats, and that means we have, excuse the language, 5 cats' poop and pee. I've had cats for many, many years and have used all kinds of litter and all kinds of litter containers. I've found the ultimate solution! This is just my opinion that I would like to share with other cat owners. The company is not paying me and will never know that I've written this!
I never smell cats when I come in our door, but I thought maybe I had become "nose blind" as the commercial says. But within the past month, I got the same compliment from 3 people on 3 separate occasions. Honest! Each said that they never would have known that we have cats because there is absolutely no smell in the house. Two of the people were Hospice nurses that were here to help my mother-in-law, and they both said they are in many homes with cats and they can usually tell as soon as they walk in the door. The other person was here to buy a piece of furniture we sold on Craigslist, and she said the exact same thing.
We use the Breeze system made by Tidy Cats. It's a little expensive to start, but there is a $7 coupon on their website: https://www.tidycats.com/breeze-systems
I also noticed when I googled it that chewy.com has it for 30% off at the moment.
We use the open design box - the covered box didn't exist when we started using them, but the uncovered one is so simple to clean. The pellets are ceramic-like. Poop sits on the top or gets buried in the pellets and you need to scoop it. The urine goes through the pellets to a pad below. It is kind of like a diaper in that it soaks it up and becomes gel-like. If you don't slide out the door to check it, you will never smell the urine! We have 5 cats and I use 4 boxes. That's adequate for us, although Tidy-Cat and veterinarians say a box for each cat plus 1 extra. I also go through and quickly check the boxes each morning. I scoop the poop and make sure the pad isn't full because it's not fun to change the pad if it overflows! Since you can't smell it, you need to figure out how long you can go normally without checking the pad. They say that if you have 1 cat it should last a week.
One wonderful feature is that the pellets don't get tracked around the house. Some of the pellets may end up on the floor due to over-zealous scratching, but they're easy to pick up and put back in the box.
There are other companies that make cheaper pads for the Breeze system. I've tried a few and they just weren't worth it. They were thinner and didn't last as long. But Amazon now makes their own brand which are cheaper and work great. They're called AmazonBasics Cat Litter Pads. That's all I buy now.
The web site gives instructions on how to introduce the system to your cats. I had no trouble at all with any of our cats - including our little feral cat who had never seen a litter box in her life.
One last thing to know. If you have a cat that "sits" on the edge of the box to pee - usually a male - occasionally you could get urine on the floor in front of the box. That can happen with traditional boxes too. I solve that by putting one of the pads on the floor just under the edge of the front of the box. If it gets urine on it, I just reuse it in the "drawer" of the system.
That's it! Just wanted to share something that has made our house a more enjoyable place to be!
Interesting, have never heard of this system. Will do some research.
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