im handfeeding two baby afican gray parrots and i caught them eating the pine bedding and someone said to use equine pellete bedding
Petsmart in Renton wa. use pellets
We use the wood stove pellets (which probably is the same as the horse bedding pellets) They are darn cheap at the feed/farm stores - $5 for a 40 lb bag. When using them you only put a layer on the bottom and maybe 1-2 cups more - not deep at all like with clay/clumping litter. When they use them, the urine will break down the pellets overnight or the next day and it will be sawdust. The sawdust quickly absorbs urine and even if you wait a few days to dump it all out, the pan is DRY. It is pretty good with odors but not super great. We usually take out the solids once a day and stir up the pellets and sawdust a bit. I end up shifting the pellets once and dump the sawdust from them, putting the unused pellets back in the pan and adding a few cups to that (fresh). I have two large pans (not the regular litter pans in the store) and a bag of pellets will last me about 2 months or so. When (or if) you switch, do so over 1-2 weeks time. Cats do not know that its litter unless they have been raised with it as kittens. So you will need to put in a cup of pellet in the clay/scoopable litter and as you scoop out, add in more pellets. For most all cats, within a week to two you will have them using just the pellets only. To noone below - yes its easier if you can get the special box, but not necessary. A slotted normal litter pan scooper works in shifting (takes me about 5 mins or less to shift a pan with the spoon only.
It should be dust free. Most horse bedding is not dust free.
