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Odourlock is Canadian. Going to switch this week. A relative says it definitely has less dust. And I'm curious about the "40 day no odour guarantee".

Any other Canadian brand litter out there?

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[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’ve switched to ökocat, which is basically just wood pellets. I think it’s made in the USA, but I much prefer it to traditional clay. I’ve seen some people on YouTube demonstrating how to use wood pellets from a farm/feed store, and it ends up being dirt cheap. The main difference I think is that okocat clumps, while the sawdust type wood pellets disintegrate when wet, requiring a slightly different cleaning approach (but still easy). Might be worth looking into wood-based litter since Canada has lots of trees.

[–] blindsight@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

This is what I came to recommend. Spruce pellets are cheap and locally sourced, and they disintegrate to sawdust when wet. (They're compacted sawdust to begin with, so that makes sense.) You get a litter box with a tray full of holes over a bin, then when you school the poop, you just jostle it around a bit extra to encourage any lingering sawdust to fall through the holes.

We use puppy pads underneath to catch the sawdust, so the clean up takes no time. We empty and refill it every week or so, with 2 small cats.

Not all cats are happy to switch, apparently, but we didn't run into that. Our cats were rescues, and they only use wood pellets at the SPCA to reduce costs and because it's healthier for cats (they breathe in less dust).

Some wood pellets are treated with chemicals of some kind to affect how they burn, so we get ours from a horse supply shop since they only get animal-safe pellets.