The scourge of clumping cat litter!!

In the course of my work with animals, I must have come across about every type of cat litter there is. All my customers seem to have their favourites, and they stick to these. But I've never been able to understand the attraction of clumping fullers earth cat litter!!

Sure, when it's wet it all sticks together and you can remove the lump, leaving the rest all clean and fresh - in theory..... In reality it doesn't happen like this. It turns into a horrible sludgy mess at the bottom of the litter tray, and leaves a nasty wet soggy residue that's so difficult to remove. Then it sticks to the scoop, and you spend ages trying to clean it off. That is if you haven't already broken the scoop by trying to scrape out the nasty residue.

Don't try to rinse anything down the sink as this just clogs up the plughole!! You just have to wait for it all to dry (takes ages) then chip it off. Such vile stuff.....

Nothing's perfect, but about anything else is better than this. Why do we need it to clump? All the other types just soak up the wet stuff, and unless lots of male cats all share the same litter tray, it keeps fairly fresh until the whole thing needs changing.