What is the best cat litter to use for 2 kittens with strong smelling order habits currently using Tidy Cat non-clumping?

Answer 1

I have three cats. It was a chore with two cats keep that "perfumed" cat poop smell control. Then when we got our third kitten four months ago I could not believe how bad it was. Of course you go out and buy the "best" clumping, "best" oder eating and "best perfumed" litter you can buy. All I would smell when I hit my front door is "perfumed cat poop". I don't understand why we keep smelling it.

We scooped and changed the litter every other day or daily. Then the light bulb came on. My son has a ferret and we use feline pine for him, mainly because perfumed litter is not good for them and the find gravel would get in his little ears and eyes. So, I put the feline pine in the cat litter box. Immediately no perfume smell. Then when the cats went there was no lingering poop smell. I found Arm & Hammer Natural Clumping Litter. It looks like ground sawdust but it has a nice light smell. So now I pour the Feline Pine in the litter box and add a few hand fulls of the Arm & Hammer Natural Clumping litter and mix it. Now when I walk into my apartment and I no longer smell the litter box in our laundry room.

Another take on this is not to change the litter if you are happy with it, but to change the food instead. A food that creates an awful smell when it comes out the other end should be a sign they may be eating the wrong thing - if the food is full of cheap filler or other ingredients a cat cannot digest, then it will just get rid of it. A cat's waste should not smell so bad that you have to hold your nose when you enter the room, or smell it from several rooms away.

Take a look at the ingredients on the cat food. What is in it? A good quality cat food should have named meat as the FIRST (or first three) in the list. Named meat is usually labeled as Chicken, Turkey, Fish, Lamb, Beef of other meats. Labels such as Meat Meal or Meat Byproducts are poor quality protein sources which isn't particularly ideal.

Other labels to avoid are ones that contain the names Corn, Cereals, Grain, Wheat and Gluten. All these are cheap filler that manufacturers put in as it is cheaper than meat. However, cats cannot digest these very well, especially in such high levels that are found in poor quality cat food. This, amongst other ingredients, just pass right through and this is what causes the awful smell.