Clump litter with diabetic cats= NO!!

So as you know with diabetic cats they pee a lot.  We deiced to try out clump litter thinking that it would make a difference in their litter. We would be able to simply scoop out the pee and keep the litter box a little cleaner.  What a nightmare!  They pee so much and so heavily that it is like straight concrete in the box.  It is like digging out hard chunks of litter.  It takes like 15 minutes to just scoop the boxes each day because now the urine is like a paste that is just stuck to the edges in the box.  It's very very hard.  Plus.. since a diabetic cat pees so much you scoop out a lot and so they I am constantly added litter everyday too.  Plus clump litter is expensive.  $12 almost for the bucket you see above.  We tried this for about a month and it was a lot more work then I thought.  So now we are back to the regular Tidy Cats litter.  Much easier to just scoop that out then to use this clump litter.  Hoping this helps someone out there who is wondering what type of litter to use with their diabetic kitty.


EDIT:  9/30/13  My husband loves the clump litter for their diabetes!  So we do use it actually.  He is the one though who scoops out the box everyday because I think that stuff sucks.. but he loves it!

Edit: 5/22/16  Still using the clump litter.  I have come to really like it for the litter... it just took time to adjust.  I would recommend it now with all the pee that diabetic cats do.

Green Machine

If you have cats with diabetes and liver problems... a green machine will be your pal. 

Green Machine

So Pippin has now puked twice in the past two days.  It is the food he has eaten and yellow.  The color of bile.  This stuff can REALLY stain.  So after he pukes I wait a little while and then get some wet food back in him.  The green machine can really help with urine too.  We hadn't realized until it was way too late that the cats were peeing in our guest bedroom.  ughhh it was awful!  We had to tear up the carpet/carpet pad and then paint Kilz onto the floor to lock in the odor and then go to Lowes buy some carpet pad and then luckily we had some carpet left to match the carpet we had to tear up.  I swear these cats could've ONLY peed in there for a week.  But I guess with cats who knows?  There was no stain on the floor but the smell was so bad we had to get that carpet out.  There was nothing the green machine could do for this!!

What I discovered:

Pulled up the pad and carpet:

Cut out patterns:

Painted the floor with Kilz (water based so it's easier to clean up)

Stapled down new pad and carpet:

YEESH!!!