Pettex Pampuss Woodbase Cat Litter 30 Litre

We are a multi cat household and this is the best product, believe me that we have tried many litters before settling for these pellets. Less mess and less waste as the used pellets can be placed in the recycling

I have since been using this regularly having tried other versions that don’t match my original product that I cannot get hold of.

This product has proved more cost effective with purchasing 30kg. As a result I have bought in bulk to cover many months.

I have combated the wetness by mixing it with another paper based litter. It works but overall I just scoop the soiled spots out and replace.

It does a good job with smell control and absorbing, but absorbing is rather messy and wet. Unlike my other pellets I use to buy in a shop that where whitish in colour and larger.
These are not bad but more in price.
I would consider buying again as a no other alternative situation if my local shop still cannot get the 15kg bag in.

I rate this product a good 3 stars.

Forgive me if this is a little long-winded, but when I first bought this type of litter I had only ever used “gritty” litter and I didn’t know how to use pellets properly and had to search on the internet! I’m glad I did or I would have been throwing away perfectly good litter! So, this is aimed at helping folk who have never used this kind of litter before or been given any advice on “how to”. I find this litter is very long lasting, and a good price. I have one cat and have had this bag for nearly 2 months now, I reckon there is still 1-2 weeks’ worth of litter left too. It arrived in a very sturdy, obviously waterproof bag, with an address label on, so no excess packaging. An added bonus for me is no lugging heavy litter home from the supermarket/pet store. Firstly, I scoop as soon as she poops usually, and I just use Tesco nappy sacks, a squirt of dettol air freshener into the bag, tie it and place it in the bin, outdoor or indoor depending on the weather. Provided you have a lidded and bin lined indoor bin, you shouldn’t get odour leakage – we don’t. Even though we have a hooded litter tray there is no getting away from the fact that whatever type of litter you use, cat poops smell terrible! I don’t think there is a solution for that problem, it’s just part of being owned by a cat! We have a can of Oust on standby for those moments and throw the patio door open. All that said, a couple of times she has pooped overnight and buried it, and when we entered the room in the morning there was no poop smell in the air or even around the litter tray, just the smell of the wood pellets. So I would guess, if your cat buries her poop and you are out all day, you may find the house will not be smelling when you arrive home. That was our overnight experience anyway.

My cat likes to dig and bury, so I usually put a nice deep lot of litter into the freshly washed and dried tray at the start of the week and then daily separate the usable pellets from the sawdust. I’ve found, provided I use a good depth of litter at the beginning of the week, I don’t need to add litter during the week at all. Additionally, the tray really doesn’t need washing unless there’s been some kind of accidental poop contact. To separate the litter, I push all the litter to one end of the tray, take it a scoop at a time and sift over the empty end of the tray. I have a sturdy carrier bag (make sure there are none of those little holes in it!) by the side which I empty the pellets into from the scoop as I go. You end up with a tray with sawdust in it, and a carrier bag full of usable litter pellets. The sawdust can then be emptied into the bin, the compost, the garden, as you see fit because obviously it’s biodegradable. I agree with the comments where people say, it literally just smells something like a carpenter’s workshop, it’s that woody smell, you don’t smell urine at all. Once the sawdust has been emptied from the tray, I just pour the pellets from the carrier bag back into the tray, level it out with the scoop and it’s ready to use again. Nearer the end of the week you will see the litter level has gone down but there is still plenty for purpose. My guide is that I can’t see the tray through the litter, if the tray shows through, it needs more litter. I sift the remaining pellets at the end of the week, wash and dry the tray, then I pour the sifted pellets in from the carrier bag, add a good amount of new litter, mix it all together and the cat is perfectly happy with this. I’ve had no problems with her refusing to use her tray at all. So if you can spare the time, sifting the pellets from the sawdust is definitely the way forward, you can save yourself a lot of money by doing it this way. As I say, this 30 litre bag will end up lasting me just over two months. I don’t think I’d ever go back to “gritty litter” again! For info, I’ve added a picture of the sawdust you are left with after sifting, and a couple of pictures of the pellets which you are left with after sifting. As you can see there is nothing wrong with the pellets, even though the litter tray had been well used for number 1’s!