Have Cats? Save Money

No, this isn't another sponsored post. It's just my opinion on a good product.

We have two cats. A few years ago, we switched to a pine pellet cat litter. The litter is made up of small pellets of pine sawdust. When the cats use the litter box, the pellets turn back into sawdust and absorb the fluids and the odors from both the liquid and solid waste. (The pellets themselves, to me anyway, smell less like pine and more like sunflower seed shells.) A 1/2-inch layer in the litter box would about a week, although I occasionally "scoop the poop" between changings.

It was great; the brand name was a little costly, but because we used so little at at time, it seemed worth it in comparison to regular clay litter or scoopable litter. The odor control alone was enough to make us want to stick with the pine litter.

We were lucky enough to learn that one of the major pet supply stores carried their own generic. We used that for a couple of years. The cost was much less than the brand name, running about $8 for a 20-pound bag. For us, 20 pounds would last 6 to 8 weeks.

Then one day we were in our local farm and ranch store for something and I noticed they had a product called Equine Fresh. It was the exact same pine litter packaged to use in horse stalls. The pellets were just the tiniest bit larger, but that didn't matter to our cats. The best part is the price. It runs about $6 for a 40-pound bag. It saves us more than 60% over the generic we were buying.

Now if I could only figure out a way to save money on cat food.