• girl@lemm.ee
    12·
    2 years ago

    If you want no dust then some kind of pellet litter would be best, like corn or pine pellets. My cats hate that texture though, so we had to find one with a similar texture to clay litter. I worked at a pet supply/food store for a couple years and tried a bunch of litters, nothing with a granular texture is truly dust-free, and I found clay litter claims of being “low dust” to be complete bullshit. I settled on Sustainably Yours Large Grain litter, it’s corn based. The large grain really reduces the dust, I get a little bit when emptying the bag but the large grain doesn’t throw dust when they dig around in it. It also clumps pretty well.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      I have an auto litter box so it has to work with that too, sorry, should have provided that. Im sure they all mostly do

      • girl@lemm.ee
        5·
        2 years ago

        The large grain litter I mentioned should be fine enough for an auto litter box to sift. Definitely not pellets though.

    • BloodSlut@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      I actually cant stand it, it doesnt make any visible dust but whenever I had cleaned out the litter box (or even someone else doing it in a completely different room of the house) it felt like it was desiccating my lungs and airways. It was horrible.

  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    2 years ago

    World’s Best clumps and is unscented. It’s corn, so there’s no clay or silica dust, but it does make its own kind of corn dust, which my previous cat tracked everywhere after thoroughly digging and burying. My present cat just tiptoes in, pees, poos, and tiptoes away, leaving the poo perched proud. It gets my attention to scoop it! But at least no dust gets tracked.

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 years ago

      Some cats may have allergies to it though so watch your cat closely after switching. You also need to stay on top of scooping it as it has a higher propensity to mold.

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
        2·
        2 years ago

        We used World’s Best for years. At one point we had a cat who was exhibiting some potty-related behavioral issues, and in desperation I brought in some clay litter (BoxieCat). 3 cats, 6 litterboxes¹: I replaced one litterbox with clay, and they all immediately stopped using the ones filled with World’s Best. I reduced it down to a single box of WB and they still wouldn’t use it.

        I have no idea why, but it solved the potty problem.

        ¹: My first attempt to address the issue was to keep adding litterboxes so they had choice.

  • d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    2·
    2 years ago

    Petco carries a “sofresh” litter that you can refill. Its unscented and does just fine keeping smells down. If i smell anything then i probably forgot to empty it.

    Not particularly low dust but also not any worse than purina or others i’ve used. And its cheap due to refilling. I have a few petcos that i pass weekly regardless so its pretty convenient for me, at least.

  • joeyv120@ttrpg.network
    2·
    2 years ago

    Purina had a good one that was pellets made from recycled paper. Think it was called yesterday’s news. I haven’t seen it in my local stores in a while though.

  • not_that_guy05@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    Just get the crystal litter from Walmart. They are 10 a small bag 14 for big. I also have an automated cat litter. Only dust when I dump the whole thing out and that’s minimal.

      • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
        2·
        2 years ago

        It’s not good for their lungs, the silica dust.

        Also, when it’s full of liquid, that’s it, it’s full, any more urine just sits there. I’ve tried it before, and the above person may have a decent experience with it in an automated box, but I have not and also I like run on sentences.

  • Hurculina Drubman@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 years ago

    1. wood pellet. if you buy it packaged for horse stall bedding instead of cat litter you can get 40 lb for $6. requires a special litter box because it’s different from the clump and scoop type.

    2. if you don’t want to change your litter box, you want Naturally Fresh Walnut shell Quick Clumping. please remember not to use clumping litter with small kittens

  • TherouxSonfeir@lemm.ee
    1·
    2 years ago

    I use arm and hammer “slide” which is basically sand. It won’t have that clay dust, but there are bound to be a few particles. The clay stuff bothered my nose, but this did not. So, maybe it would work for you

    • ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      In my experience this type of litter is the best (clay clumping pellets) with the automatic litterbox. I usually go for one of the super turbo ultra types instead of unscented. I have 5 cats on it, it works the best for us even when the robot is out for cleaning and they’re going in the box again.

      Pretty litter is good but marginally less useful the more cats are going in it, and the dust it kicks up is invisible but still irritating and clumps kinda badly. I only use it if I really need to diagnose a UTI but it’s been over half a year now since I bought a bag.