Kaytee Premium Potty Training Critter Litter for Pet Ferrets, Rabbits & Other Small Animals, 8 lb

Great product
Recommend it

Good for clean fur
I got snowball and Blackie in 2007 and they lived for 10 years before they died. At the time I would always buy critter litter. It’s never been my favorite brand, but that’s what the pet store within walking distance of my house sold. And while it didn’t prevent the smell or a disgusting clumping around the edge of the litter box, it never stuck to their fur. Which is a huge plus. No one likes cleaning poop fur.After Snowball and Blackie died I waited a couple of years before I started another family. I got Desi (black tort colored Lionhead) and Trouble (English lop). Now Trouble has a habit of digging all of her litter out and spreading it onto the floor of her cage. And as you can imagine, that’s a very expensive problem. So I had to switch. I found an 18 pound bag of crumbly, soft recycled newspaper that looked like it could pass for cage bedding, but was only litter that was $11 a bag. So that problem was solved.Then Rita (Vienna-marked grey colored Lionhead) came along. She is just so fluffy and adorable! The problem is, she’s not an avid groomer like Desi. So while Desi makes sure that his cushy-litter is never remaining on his fur…… Rita isn’t capable of grooming her butt or the rest of her fur. Her fur matinence is more demanding than an Afghan Hound! Meanwhile Desi just needs a good brushing once a week to get whatever he missed.So I kept thinking “what can I do to make it harder for her to dirty and knot her fur?” And I remembered the critter litter. Now she doesn’t have any remnants on her butt and when she sleeps in her litter box she doesn’t have anything attaching to her either.I use the critter litter exsclusively for Rita.

Rats are nice
My two little harlequin rescue ratties learned to use the litter pan (a triangular shaped recycled milk carton cut down and fitting exactly into a corner, and filled with Fresh Step) in one trial, and I thought that was normal for rats, and I bragged about it. Then just for spice I got this new rattie, this pet-raised little blond, and she ruined everything–not only didn’t learn, and peed and pooped everywhere she wanted to, but she got the other girls off track, too! So I got this litter. It did not change the situation at all, and it also has some undesirable attributes that ordinary clay litter like Fresh Step escapes: it dries, as other reviewers have mentioned, into a curious concrete bottom-gripper, not a scoopable clump, if any gets knocked out of the litter box the bits form ugly clay smears when you wipe across them in cleaning up, plus the other undesirable, the price. Nor did my ratties seem to prefer it over other kinds: I used several kinds, non-clumping borrowed from neighbors with cats, in trials, and varied the locations, and found no preferences among them, for ratties. I counted poop and felt quite the researcher. They did prefer one corner, but not one litter. That makes it an ordinary three stars for this ‘special’ litter, based on the weaknesses I listed.For rat owners, that’s not the end of the drama, of course. What did I do about the maddening loss of sanitation? I analyzed it and concluded that I had spent very much more time observing the harlequin ratties, as new pets, and ‘caught’ their every move, and reinforced the right ones probably more often than I realized (since I now know that rats like kind words and little pats very much, even more than a treat, when compared to dogs, and I realized they had gotten more than one trial of those kinds of rewards, and the one actual food reward, to learn to use the litter pan originally). So I began to watch the new rat especially and all of them in general, or let me say I learned to listen for the tell tale scritches when they were in the litter pan as well as watch for it more carefully, and I rewarded generously with all kinds of treats, both social and edible, and within hours Baby had begun to please, and the other girls were back on track.So I conclude that success in litter training is in the careful observation and reward of desired behavior, not in the type of litter, and that as far as litter goes, this one ain’t all that. Fresh Step, the clay type, controls smell better, is just as small for their little feet, and is of course cheaper. But it has little pieces of charcoal about the same size as rat poop, making it slightly more difficult to clean out than to throw out and start over. But since it does not smell, it can sit for a couple more days and you don’t have to compulsively pick through it to make it last. I imagine there are even better kinds than Fresh Step, but for me the point has been, train, don’t worry about the litter except to get the kind they don’t eat.

Our Rats Love It
We got this to try as an alternative to the So Phresh paper pellets. We had no complaints about the paper pellets effectiveness but we were finding some droppings in other places around the cage. Since changing, all the dropping are now in the litter boxes. The cage also stays fresh longer; probably also a result of them using the litter boxes more consistently. Note: This is slightly more expensive to change out every week than the paper pellets, unless you want to pick out the droppings instead (not actually hard to do).

I bought this for my hamster. This is absorbs urine and doesn’t have a serious odor. Very good recommended for hamster

Las bolas son más grandes de lo que esperaba pero cumple su función. Absorbe bien así que dura bastante una sola bolsa. No neutraliza los olores pero limpio a diario así que no hay problema. Se apelmaza cuando se moja así que lo sucio queda en una pieza y lo que queda limpio se puede rescatar.