WE use SwheatScoop. It's wheat-based, totally organic, clumps really well, and it's completely flushable. And it's better for cats to boot. Normal kitty litter is clay based, and as they kick around in it, it kicks up clay dust, which they breathe in, which can cause lung problems for them when they get older.
And it's only about a buck more than regular litter.
@TonyRockyHorror: It is also high in dust content, AND wheat is a great place for mold and spores to grow... Because they like damp environments. Which in turn gives you a cat with asthma.
I think I still perfer pooping in a box. Big Ponies is nice enough and doesn't punish me cuz I'm cute and stuffs. So I dont punish him with poop. Im not gonna make him buy me this.
Maxie here:
I agree with my stupid sister. Shes dumb and doesn't know anything and isnt as cute as me but shes rite because pooping in boxes is betterer.
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2.0 out of 5 stars An expensive way to smell poo, September 18, 2007
By N A "Cat Lover"
Cat Genie takes the small unpleasantness of daily cleaning the litter and it saves it up and releases that unpleasantness as one big unscheduled, unpleasant inconvenience every week or two. Advanced monitors will ensure that the device failure will occur during the workday, as you prepare for your important meeting with your prospective client. Nothing like cleaning out wet cat poo in your nicest suit. Or, you may be pleasantly awoken in the middle of the night by the repeating three beeps of "there's poo and hair in the hopper." You will become more familiar with your cat's feces every day as the cat genie gently fills your home with the aroma of baking excrement. Plus, you get to pay over $300 for technology that was "designed" and built for less than $2. The "processor" unit was designed in 1967 and allows all the functionality of the most advanced microchip devices of its era. It has both on and off modes. (Note: off mode available only while unplugged.)
Actually, the real reason for the high cost of the device is to cover the costs of all the customer support that they must provide and to cover the costs of all of the returned units. The question is not IF, but WHEN you will find yourself hunched over your cat's feces floating in a pool of fetid water, picking small plastic pellets out of the opaque, pungent water with your fingers so that you can get the device put back together.
And your cats will thank you by depositing their love bundles beside the machine that's half filled with water and beeping away forlornly if you happen to be away when it fails.
We have three cats, they had no trouble adjusting to the machine over about a week. The small plastic pellets getting everywhere in the house is not really any big deal. Roomba takes care of most of them well. We've now had the machine for three months. We received a replacement base last week for a leaky drain hose. We've called their customer service line enough times that we now know the "secret" diagnostic techniques of their experts. We don't know if we're going to keep it or return it. If we keep it, we're definitely going to install an exhaust fan in the laundry room, and set it to a timer to go when the unit is on. For some reason there are little bits of poo that fall between the tines of the hopper, and they get slow baked every time the unit dries itself. The stench is really outstanding. It's hard to describe. I'm a doctor, and I've rarely ever smelled anything so bad.
My recommendation is to wait for the next generation cat sanitation solution. That device will need to be a complete redesign to solve the myriad of problems with this unfortunate device. To say something positive, the customer support line is manned by kind, well-meaning kids who really do feel badly that you're having a hard time with your mechanical poo soup maker.
If you do buy this device, get some thick rubber gloves and a couple of towels that you won't use for anything else.
1) SF recycles 70% of its waste, not 90. But I'm unsure if 10% of that is animal-produced.
2) I'd rather scoop if it didn't smell then have cables and wires and tubes running everywhere and have it still stink. Cat's STINK--hence the odor-trapping litter.
3) We have 2 cats. And a cat door. They do their thing outside and bury. WAAAAAY better than any catbox.
@Amen-Ra: That SF waste stat I quoted was an off-the-cuff hazy memory more to convey the gist, which is valid. It's certainly not something you should cite in sales presentations or legal arguments.
That's just great, it's your sort that means that I have to inspect my vegetable garden for cat crap before I can do any work, so now I have to clean my own indoor cat's litter box and all the crap from the indoor/outdoor disease bags "owned" by my inconsiderate neighbours.
@bytepusher: Actually we have our own backyard and and garden and the cats do bury it because they're trained too (they'll use a litter box if we put one in the house). And we don't grow vegetables, just a few flowers. And yeah--fertilizer. So my "sort" is just fine by me. If you have a problem, talk to your neighbours.
I am not a cat person, but I thought you could teach a cat to use the toilet directly (not sure of the process but it involves putting the litter box on of the toilet.)
@van_line: Dogs are better than cats in the same way that slaves are better than friends: only true for owners with a certain type of personality. Dog people want something that will love them regardless of how unlovable they are, cat people are willing to have to put out some effort to be lovable.
@badhatharry: As a master Caninologist, I can translate that look as, "Get that camera out of my face, or I WILL remember this and let that guy in the door and not bark".
@WarOperationPlanResponse_GitEm...: Actually, what that look means is "What is that? You got food? Is food for me? Never mind. I'll just get up on the table later and eat it."
@Alexandru Dragunoiu: It just starts back up when you plug it back in. There's no way to re-set it. So unplugging isn't so much "stopping" as "prolonging the inevitable."
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If only it was bigger on the inside...
This thing is unfortunately too big for our bathroom or laundry room.
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I blame it on my insanity then.
(Either way, I'm never referring to my star again. Every time I do it changes.)
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And it's only about a buck more than regular litter.
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No thanks!
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I think I still perfer pooping in a box. Big Ponies is nice enough and doesn't punish me cuz I'm cute and stuffs. So I dont punish him with poop. Im not gonna make him buy me this.
Maxie here:

I agree with my stupid sister. Shes dumb and doesn't know anything and isnt as cute as me but shes rite because pooping in boxes is betterer.
07/03/09
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1,015 of 1,052 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars An expensive way to smell poo, September 18, 2007
By N A "Cat Lover"
Cat Genie takes the small unpleasantness of daily cleaning the litter and it saves it up and releases that unpleasantness as one big unscheduled, unpleasant inconvenience every week or two. Advanced monitors will ensure that the device failure will occur during the workday, as you prepare for your important meeting with your prospective client. Nothing like cleaning out wet cat poo in your nicest suit. Or, you may be pleasantly awoken in the middle of the night by the repeating three beeps of "there's poo and hair in the hopper." You will become more familiar with your cat's feces every day as the cat genie gently fills your home with the aroma of baking excrement. Plus, you get to pay over $300 for technology that was "designed" and built for less than $2. The "processor" unit was designed in 1967 and allows all the functionality of the most advanced microchip devices of its era. It has both on and off modes. (Note: off mode available only while unplugged.)
Actually, the real reason for the high cost of the device is to cover the costs of all the customer support that they must provide and to cover the costs of all of the returned units. The question is not IF, but WHEN you will find yourself hunched over your cat's feces floating in a pool of fetid water, picking small plastic pellets out of the opaque, pungent water with your fingers so that you can get the device put back together.
And your cats will thank you by depositing their love bundles beside the machine that's half filled with water and beeping away forlornly if you happen to be away when it fails.
We have three cats, they had no trouble adjusting to the machine over about a week. The small plastic pellets getting everywhere in the house is not really any big deal. Roomba takes care of most of them well. We've now had the machine for three months. We received a replacement base last week for a leaky drain hose. We've called their customer service line enough times that we now know the "secret" diagnostic techniques of their experts. We don't know if we're going to keep it or return it. If we keep it, we're definitely going to install an exhaust fan in the laundry room, and set it to a timer to go when the unit is on. For some reason there are little bits of poo that fall between the tines of the hopper, and they get slow baked every time the unit dries itself. The stench is really outstanding. It's hard to describe. I'm a doctor, and I've rarely ever smelled anything so bad.
My recommendation is to wait for the next generation cat sanitation solution. That device will need to be a complete redesign to solve the myriad of problems with this unfortunate device. To say something positive, the customer support line is manned by kind, well-meaning kids who really do feel badly that you're having a hard time with your mechanical poo soup maker.
If you do buy this device, get some thick rubber gloves and a couple of towels that you won't use for anything else.
07/03/09
That's the money shot right there
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2) I'd rather scoop if it didn't smell then have cables and wires and tubes running everywhere and have it still stink. Cat's STINK--hence the odor-trapping litter.
3) We have 2 cats. And a cat door. They do their thing outside and bury. WAAAAAY better than any catbox.
4) You can train cats to use the toilet.
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That's just great, it's your sort that means that I have to inspect my vegetable garden for cat crap before I can do any work, so now I have to clean my own indoor cat's litter box and all the crap from the indoor/outdoor disease bags "owned" by my inconsiderate neighbours.
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Don't teach it not to. It's just a natural thing for them, though not all cats are as competent as each other.
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ps. Dogs are better than cats.
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There, see, two can play that troll game.
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Cat's aren't dumb enough to let you trick them into play the "footstool" game. Dogs are.
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Unplug it?! Nice pussycat btw.
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