When a kitten appears in the house, you have to think about buying a tray and filler for a cat toilet.
Functionality
The filler is purchased for trays of different types, but more often for models with grille sold in pet stores. Holes in the grid can be different as their quantity. In fact, a feline toilet is nothing but a box-pallet with a grid. Life waste waste flows through the holes in the lower part of the structure, while the filler itself does not give a packet of paws.
In addition, it makes it easier to clean the tray. The filler is good and the fact that when using it, the space around the tray remains clean. It is safe for an animal, does not harm for households, easy to clean and economical. However, it needs to be disposed of, and it does not save a house from an unpleasant smell after a hike of a pet to the toilet.
How to use?
The filler is poured into a tray pallet in a small amount. Enough so that he barely closes the bottom of the plastic box. It is not worth pouring the material too much, because when you get moisture, it will increase in size. From above, the pallet must be putting a grid or a different grid.
The filler must be under the grille. The grid itself needs to wash every time a pet goes into the toilet. Such an approach will exclude the package of paws, will save from the unpleasant odor of cat urine and will allow you to absorb the fluid entering through the grid with the holes.
Which is better?
Fillers are different and each material has its own properties and the degree of swelling when liquid appears on it. In addition, it is from the type of filler, how often it will have to be changed. For example, if you use ordinary sand as filling the box, then there will be little sense from it.
Despite the fact that it will not increase in size under the influence of fluid, the smell in the room will stand terrible.
Silica gel is considered the best raw material in the type of liquid absorption, in view of which it must be used in minimal quantities. It has a high ability to absorb unpleasant odors. Material made from silicate acid gel, which determines its toxicity. This filler is good in action, but it is harmful for pets, besides the moisture comes on it.
Effective in the application of the wood analogue - it not only actively absorbs the fluid incoming on top, but also eliminates unpleasant odors. . Material granules when absorbing moisture are doubled and even more. You need to pour this filler dosed, barely closing the Rodyshko tray.
The sawing material has the ability to block an unpleasant smell, but in quality it is inferior to the wood analogue. The mixed product is made of clay and sawdust. This raw material is inconvenient, since when the liquid hit, wet granules can stick to the wool of the paw. Of all the types of material it is the most impractical.
With regard to the best on the efficiency and safety of the material, it is a wood filler. It is suitable for pets of different ages, including small kittens and individuals with a tendency to allergies. If there are many cats at home, I can cope with an unpleasant smell of silica gel.
There is a corn and zeolite filler. The first is considered environmentally friendly, as corn makes are made. The second is made from volcanic minerals. Good recommendation are Japanese fillers - they allow you to clean the tray not only from the lumps with urine, but also with excrement without general cleaning, implying complete removal of filling and washing the tray.
How often to change?
The use of each filler may differ that, first of all, it will depend on the type of material used. In addition, it may depend on the number of pets living in the same house (which will be more, the more often the granules in the tray pallet will have to be changed). At the same time, the material can be disposed of partially. For example, wood filler granules, which fell a large amount of cat urine, scattered.
They can be separated by a spatula from whole granules and throw out. If there is a lot of scattered material, then it is necessary to replace it completely, pouring out a fresh portion after washing and drying the box.
When using wood filler, you can not pour new granules until the old one will end. As a rule, when living at home one cat change this filler at least once a week.
If you do it less often, the unpleasant smell will spread around the house, and the pet itself will look for another place toilet. Raw materials, which contains mineral components, all is disposed of at once: in this case, there is no point in gradual replacement. The key point when changing the material is the laundering of the pallet and grid by means of a cleaning agent - this will make it possible to neutralize the unpleasant smell and get rid of pathogenic microorganisms.
Silica gel can be used for two weeks. After that, the exhaust material is replaced by a new one. However, this does not mean that you need to wait for two weeks without touching the tray. Used lumps with absorbent fluid need to be eliminated immediately after they are detected. The rest must be mixed, which will contribute to rapid drying.
Mineral granules are not changed less than once a week, however, with a strong pollution, the procedure must be performed more often . The mixed filler in the tray needs to be changed once a week if at home lives one animal. This is performed by means of a special blade with holes, which will allow simultaneously to sift the material when separating the exhaust product. After that, in the tray you need to pour fresh granules.
Sand must be changed daily. This filler is bad and what can be saturated. It is useless to sow, dry or separate - it does not save households from smell and grain near the tray. If the pets in the house are somewhat, the filler will have to be removed once every 3-5 days, focusing on the smell appearing from the tray.
How to fill it right?
The amount of filler for cats depends on its type and absorbing ability. In addition, the age of the animal may affect it. Based on the calculation per cat, you may need:
- Wood material - up to 2 cm in height;
- silica gel - no more than 2 cm in the thickness of the layer;
- mixed product - up to 3 cm;
- Sand - no more than 2-3 cm.
The filler in the tray with the grille should not touch the mesh - there should be a free space that needed to swell the granules. This will allow moisture not to linger on the lattice, but go down. If the material is too much, it will climb through the lattice, which will deliver the pet unpleasant sensations.
As for trays without lattices, here the volume of the product may be slightly increased. At the same time, the breeder should rely on the magnitude of the pellets of a particular material. In addition, the filler can be diluted with minor pebbles intended for kittens, which are still involved in the toilet.
Fill the tray with fresh material is necessary solely after its washing.
If this is not done, the plastic is soaked with the smell of urine and excrement, so there will be no sense from the filler. Rumps in trays without lattices are removed immediately when they are detected, otherwise the pet can disseminate some part of the filler. In addition, he can start to go to go to such a place.
Recycling
Exhaust material needs disposal. However, fluttening a feline toilet to the toilet toilet cannot be caused - the cause of this is the absorbency of the granules. This can be brought to clogging the sewer system and the formation of the plug, because even the exhaust material can increase in size.
Some manufacturers argue that their products can be flush in the toilet, which indicates the image of the underlined toilet on the filler packaging. However, it is impossible to discount the eternal damping of pipes and the reduction of their internal diameter due to water of poor quality, which is typical of many houses in our country. In old houses, the inner diameter of the sewer pipes is small, so you should not create an emergency.
Throwing a spent feline filler is needed in the trash can. To the smell does not spread through the house, a plastic bag should be put in advance on the bucket. Once the filler is recycled, the package is tied to the node and is thrown away. Throw out the exhaust absorbing material must be immediately. This also applies to sand: it is necessary to clean and throw it away, using a garbage package.
What kind of feline toilet is best, you will learn from the video below.