A recipe for homemade kitty litter (and it's nearly free)
Posted
Feb 28 2008, 10:41 PM
by
Karen Datko
Allie at Allie's Answers was looking for an alternative to store-bought kitty litter. She writes: "I've read horrible things about the chemicals that go into conventional clumping litters and the damaging effects of clay mining on the environment, so I'm not about to go back to clay litter."
More eco-friendly pellet litter didn't suit her either. They're too big for her Dirt Devil to pick up after the cat kicks them out of the box. So this creative blogger came up with her own recipe, and it's essentially free.
She started out with shredded newspaper in the box, but that didn't work very well. Her cat "tracked strips of paper everywhere like she was constantly throwing a kitty ticker-tape parade," Allie writes.
Then she came up with this idea (this is an abbreviated version -- read her post to get the full recipe and see the handy photos): Soak the shredded paper, drain, knead in baking soda, crumble and dry.
She says, "It takes about a half an hour to 45 minutes to make a two- to three-week supply of litter, and it's kind of fun, in an elementary school art project way."
