Indoor litter tray

[9thFloorNightmare]

I think I've doing it wrong

Do you use the linen plastic bag and then the pee pad and then the litter? then remove poo and pee clumps, refresh with a bit of clean litter and once a week remove the whole bag and replace with new?

I do the above without the bag and the pee pad so I have to throw the whole thing out more often.

How do you do it?

Is it a special tray/litter that you have?

We use wood pellets and just pick out the poo. I scoop/sift the obviously used litter out every day and then top up with fresh litter. It gets completely emptied out when it starts to smell which depends on how much the cats use it (they go to the toilet outside as well)

Our old cat used to use clumping cat litter which used to go ages before we used to chuck it as the wee clumps didn't contaminate the rest of the litter.
Unfortunately it used to tread everywhere and when these cats came to us on wood pellets I left them on it as it doesn't spread throughout the house anywhere as near as much.

I've never used bags or pads in the litter box.

I use wood pellets or breeder celect which I think is recycled paper

I saw a lot of bag linners and wee pads on amazon when looking for a new litter box and thought it was absolutely needed…

Like Logoplanter above, I just have the wood pellets straight in the tray, take out the poo and any large wet patches. Top up as & when needed, and replace completely every couple of weeks.

The litter should absorb any wee, especially wood litter, so no need for pads. And the liners are just pointless as the majority of cats will scratch right through them when they bury their doings.

I found liners made more work.

We use clumping corn litter - straight in the tray and clumps and poos are scooped as soon as I see them. I only need to do a full change once a month or so, with top ups in between.

We have three trays and three indoor cats and 60l of litter lasts us about 10/12 weeks.

I found my cat's claws would tear the liners which defeated the purpose. Haven't heard of pee pads for litter trays (although my cat passed a few years ago now).

I did as per PPs.