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2naSalit

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6. I was doing that
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 06:03 PM
Dec 2018

back in the early 2000s, last time I had a lovely feline in my household. It's the best deal, I was getting a 40# bag for $4. And a bag that big lasted about a month. My cat liked it better too. It can be a little smelly but if you take care to remove the solids soon after deposited, it's not a problem at all. I was getting pellet stove pellets at a wood stove place. Not sure if the stuff used for pellets for stoves is the same now, might check what's at the feed store.

Wood pellets are just sawdust tubed up in some kind of gelatin so it breaks down on contact with moisture and there's no clay dust causing all kinds of health issues all over the house.

I also used a chunk of fire log with the bark still on it for a scratching post, cats love that, and you just replace it when it's all ripped up. I sometimes brought in a large branch that I could wedge into some interesting spot in the cabin so climbing was an activity that was a lot like outside, since she was an outdoor cat originally... really, I found her in a barn.

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