To poo or not to poo, that is the question (Catsan Hygiene Litter)

Member Name: Virtuoso

Product:	Catsan Hygiene Litter
Date:	20/03/09 (135 review reads)
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Advantages: This stuff could probably soak up the Pacific

Disadvantages: If it did soak up the Pacific we would all die due to climatic CATastrophes

I guess I just have to add to the rousing chorus of approval for this product. My cat Jasper is extraordinarily fussy about his toilet arrangements, the slightest whiff of his own urine or poop in the tray and we will find him doing his business all over the carpet to teach us a lesson.

We started Jasper off when he was a kitten on an enormous bag of cheap litter that my brother had bought for his ferrets (long story, ugh) and he seemed to like that well enough.

We then got all pretentious and decided to try him on this wood-chip stuff that looks incredibly like dog food. First time I poured it into the tray I fully expected him to start chowing down on it, but luckily little Jasper seems to have a pretty good understanding of what to eat and what to crap on. We immediately found that (to my wallets relief) he didn't approve of this change of litter, and informed us of this by liberally treating our carpet to a fine covering of faeces.

The next saga in the litter story is of Tesco Value litter. I thought to myself that if he didn't like the most expensive kind of litter logic would surely mean that he should love the cheapest! Well.. sure he loved it, but unfortunately it seemed so bad at covering odours and drying up his pee that it needed changing almost every day. This seemed like a false economy at the rate we were going through it. It also seemed dusty and it looked nasty, not that his bothered me too much, I'm not the kind of guy that buys Andrex Quilted for myself, and the little poo factory is getting what he's given.

Then one fine night not so long ago we had ran out of litter, and the wife was sent upon a mission to acquire more. To my horror she returns with a bag of Catsan, alarm bells were going off in my head, this stuff looked expensive. I nearly fainted when she told me it was £5.50.

With clenched teeth I poured it into his tray.. hmm I thought.. this stuff looks nice. Very white and even looking, no dust, maybe I have judged too quickly. And so it has proven, this stuff really is excellent. Seems to soak up any pee, I cannot smell the usual ammonia odour that builds up, it just does the job. So far since buying it king Jaspar has not objected to it, and our carpet has remained free from his 'work'.

Yes it is expensive, but so far I think it will need changing considerably less often than Tesco Value litter, and so may actually represent value for money. That price we paid of £5.50 was from a Tesco Express store which is about the worst possible place to buy this, I imagine if bought from a normal Tesco store it would be cheaper and when in bulk even cheaper still. I really should get on and research that as I could probably save a fortune in future!

Summary: Best litter out there, even better than the litter on Oxford Street