What affects us affects cats
Whether cat litter can cause allergies in humans and cats is an interesting question because almost all we hear about (concerning cats and allergies) is the human allergy to cats caused by the protein Fel D1 in the cat’s saliva. It would be ironic if cat litter caused allergies in cats and humans. Without …
Three to four inches deep is the correct depth and the correct amount of cat litter to use in a litter tray according to a well know cat behaviourist. I’d more or less agree with her. However, I tend to fill the tray to around 1.5 to 2 inches, a little less than the …
I have received a very poignant comment from a Tonkinese cat breeder in America about Tidy Cats Lightweight Litter and how she believes it killed four of her kittens who, incidentally, had been earmarked for adoption by clients. Tonkinese cats are purebred. They are in the Siamese family of purebred cats. I don’t know …
The people who market the Luuup say that it is the last litter box you will ever have to buy. Almost 2 million original units were sold but then the product fizzled out. This Kickstarter1 program is intended to jumpstart the product again. The product has been refined and improved. Judging by the $1,178,504 …
I have some more information on Tidy Cats Lightweight Litter the source of which is a “Safety Data Sheet”. This appears to be an official assessment identifying potential hazardous materials within the litter. In a previous post I discussed the possibility that this litter is dangerous because of the dust. A person who commented …
“Tidy Cats Lightweight Litter is made with perlite which is extremely abrasive…” Perlite is also known as “volcanic glass”. Below is an anonymous comment on another well-known article on the subject of Tidy Cats Lightweight Litter. I wrote the article in which I state that there is evidence indicating that it is dangerous because …
I may be naïve and out of touch with cat litters because my cat does not use a litter. He goes outside. However, I’ve only recently discovered the term “natural cat litter”. It sounds attractive. As long as a natural cat litter is as good as an “unnatural” one, everybody should buy the natural …
This is still quite a lot of discussion on the internet and there are many webpages on the alleged dangers from dust both to cat (primarily) and human when using clumping cat litter. Some people are convinced that it is dangerous while others say the opposite. Surprisingly, there are no studies on this potential …
