Not only am I a “fur mom” to three cats, I am also a “Grand fur mom” to my daughter’s three cats, which, thankfully, do not live with us. There is such a thing as too many cats, believe it or not! Whenever I go over to visit my daughter, my grandcats are excited to see me. One day, when I arrived, Monster ran to the door to greet me. I noticed he was limping and wondered what was wrong. “He is allergic to his cat litter,” my daughter explained, “It has messed up his paws.” Sure enough, he had little sores on his paws. He had kept biting them until they were bloody. This brought about what I like to call “The Cat Litter Experiment.” She tried several different types of cat litter and finally settled on cedar shavings. To be honest, I was less than impressed. His paws seemed to be better, but the shavings were smelly and got scattered all over the house. I could understand the small piles of shavings the cats spilled beside the litter boxes, but they could manage to move shavings to completely different rooms of the house. I spent a lot of time sweeping the floors when I was at her home.
One day my daughter decided she had finally had enough of small cedar shavings scattered everywhere and called me. “What is the name of that cat litter you like, Mom?” she asked. “Simple Solution,” I informed her. “It is available on Amazon and sometimes I can find it at Walmart.” One of the reasons I like Simple Solutions cat litter is I no longer have to scoop out clumps of cat litter. While I scoop out the solids at least once a day, the urine doesn’t clump. Instead the litter turns a darker pink when wet. I spread it out with the scoop and it will dry back to its original color. Each box is designed to last 30 days, although since I have several litter boxes, I have used more litter.
Simple Solution does have a floral odor, but I have not found it unpleasant at all. There’s also the advantage of the cats not scratching litter outside the box or tracking it around our home. My daughter, having heard her father remark on how he and I liked the new cat litter, ordered Simple Solution for Monster. So far his little paws have been fine. The cats, usually resistant to litter changes, adapted to the litter with no problems, which is another plus. I will be continuing to use Simple Solution cat litter for our cats and my grandcats will be doing the same.
I received Simple Solutions cat litter and compensation for this post, but all opinions are honest and my own. I only recommend products I would personally use with my pets.
I’ll have to recommend this product to my mom. Thanks for sharing.
That would have been nice to have when we had cats. Pretty sad cats are allergic to their litter!!
I have a couple cats and kind some litters are much better than others. Thanks for sharing about this product. I wonder if it is available in Canada.
My cat is very picky about litter. I’ll have to try this litter out.
My cat passed away over 6 years ago. I wish they had this cat litter around when she was around it would have helped with the odor.
I guess cats being picky about litter is like us being picky about toilet paper, right? I can understand that! I’m glad this is working though.
Wow! What an awesome litter! Sadly, our sweet kitty (also a black cat) passed away last winter. We are thinking we will get another one when our soon-to-be is about 6 months… I will keep this in mind when we do! Thanks1
I don’t have kitties but they are super cute.
Oh wow, I’ve never heard of a cat being allergic to its litter before – how sad! Happy you found a product that works for him and you – makes all the difference!
This sounds like a great product to help with cat smells! We don’t have any cats, but I’ll have to keep this in mind for the future.
My sister could really use this. She only has one cat, but he certainly does a great job of tracking litter all over the house.
No cats in our house due to my allergies. But, I can definitely see how a product like this would be welcomed as it is so long lasting.
Wow! No urine scooping?!? That is so great! Thank you for this review.
I’ll have to tell hubby about this. He is the cat litter purchaser in our home and I definitely like a good quality product.
I have a cat and we have to change our little out often! I’d love to be able to go a full month without having to mess with it!
I know way too many people who have cat per homes. They stink and reek and sure could use this product!!
My mother in law has a couple of cats so I will have to tell her about this. I don’t have any because I am allergic 🙁