'the litter tray' (haha) - have just tried Cat's Best Öko Plus for the first time...

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...as recommended on previous litter threads, & am very impressed with it so far. I like the texture & smell - well, lack of smell- & have removed 2 balls of wee & dropped them down the loo this evening. Almost none of it seems to track (I do have a litter tray with a plastic grid thing they have to walk across to get out, but the crystal stuff I've used previously still escaped & crunched everywhere)

I like that all soiled litter can go down the loo, & eventually any used-but-still-cleanish can go in the garden waste bin

it's very slightly cheaper than the crystals, from zooplus - I think once the current supply of crystals has gone I'll stick to the Cat's Best, so thanks for the recommendations

You know crushed maize is chick crumb? Ie you can buy 20kg bags of it from animal feed places for £10.

Good news then. Just one point - those grid scoops are a disaster in my experience. You're better off using a hard edged scoop such as a flour scoop - or even a cheap garden trowel from Poundland.

Sorry - I should have said. Those would be metal ones.

I did read a bit about chick crumb, fluffy - is that exactly the same stuff & does it perform in exactly the same way? (I read that it generally comes complete with bugs )

cozie, the grid isn't a scoop - it's the flat bit with square holes \link{http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/711b%2BS0uXKL.SL1500.jpg\illustrated here} which slots in at the front of the tray. It seems to do a good job of cleaning paws

Ah - I understand.

40L of Cat's Best is £22.50 - how do litres compare to kilos?

I think it is, I never noticed any insects in ours it was just fine grained maize.

I'm afraid I don't know how litres compare to kilos though.

Depends on the density of that which is being weighed. I'm afraid it's a bathroom scales and calculator job.

Maybe we could all weigh the type we're using and set up a reference cat litter conversion grid?

1 litre of water = 1 Kg

But for other substances it varies ie 0.5Kg of feathers wouldn't fit in to a 1 pint milk carton

Ah - it's a bit complicated then!

Thanks, sashh & cozie

I'll weigh some of Seniorboy's clumping litter later on when I'm more organized. (I need to find the 'accurate' scales. The only ones to hand are the 'friendly' scales that I use for myself - especially after Xmas! )

Oh thanks, cozie

I weighed a 5L bag of those crystal things & they were just over 2kg (that was on digital kitchen scales)

Can't check the cat's best until I have an unopened bag again (& I have 4 lots of crystals to get through first!)

Well I'm a total busted flush. I hauled out the 'accurate' scales which seem to have spent the festive season fomenting a rebellion and have now gone completely haywire - so all I can tell you is that an 8 litre bag of clumping is heavy. Other posters will have to do the work on that one.

On the up side, I now have no option but to use the 'friendly' scales!