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[quote=Anonymous]Another large-and-in-charge cat over here (20lbs, fit as a fiddle -- he's just tall and beefy). I can't do an enclosed litter box with him. I've tried several. We now just do a very simple open pan on the floor and he's waaaaaay happier and always goes IN the box, whereas before he'd sometimes not. So if you have a cat who just won't use the enclosed box, I recommend just doing a regular pan.

I don't use liners. I just scoop it daily and then replace the litter and wipe out the pan weekly. It never gets too gross if I scoop it every day. Sometimes I'll scoop twice in a day if I see it and think of it. We take out our kitchen trash daily so I just do it before we toss that so the litter can go out in it.

We recently switched to Dr. Elsey's from Worlds Best Cat Litter. I am THRILLED that Dr. Elsey's really does not track that much. Still a little near the litter box itself, but that's it. It is 100% worth the switch and I wish I'd done it sooner.

The reason I didn't is that my cat really like World's Best, it clumped really well, and it was 100% flushable (like really, actually, will not screw up your plumbing flushable -- it fully dissolves in water and quickly -- I'd scoop it and let it dissolve for about five minutes, and then I would flush it and you wouldn't see any litter in the bowl, it just turned the water yellowish-brown). We keep the litter pan in a spare bathroom so this made for super easy clean up and I really didn't want to give it up. But there were two reasons I did: (1) World's Best is very sandy, tracks everywhere, even puffs up into clouds of sand when you poor it in or when the cat kicks it -- it gets freaking everywhere no matter how well sequestered your litter box is, it was always on the cat's paws, it was really gross, and (2) it's corn-based and it started to attract ants. So I'm now firmly anti-World's Best even though my cat loved it. He likes Dr. Elsey's fine as long as I scoop every day and don't miss a day.[/quote]

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