I've been meaning to post about this since last week, but I've been a little under the weather... I went to my local Petsmart to buy another bag of "Yesterday's News"; the recycled paper litter, and saw that there was none. Well, that's okay, says I, I'll just grab a bag of something else. Stayed away from the clay, the dusty stuff, the clumpy stuff. Saw some bead-type stuff, but I could picture Baby flinging it all over the house. It just had that look to it, you know? That fling-ability factor... So I stayed away from that. Then... I saw it. Amidst the bags & jugs of clumping and nonclumping, scented and unscented, dusty & dust-free... There was "Dr. Elesy's Precious Pine" Litter. No dust! No perfumes! No dyes! It was compressed into pellets just like Yesterday's News, and after reading every word on the entire bag, I decided that this would be my purchase. I chose this, over all others, to take into my home. I walked out of Petsmart that afternoon with a 30lb bag of litter on my shoulder, my head held high that I made an intelligent purchase. The bag said that the pellets would swell "when moistened", same thing the newspaper stuff did. Okay. Maybe it swells when moistened with kitty cat pee,I will give Doc that much. But if so, there is a huge chemical difference between kitty cat pee and ferret pee, because when Doc Elesy's Precious Pine Litter becomes moistened with ferret pee, it does not swell. Nope. It crumbles. And I don't mean one pellet breaking in two, I mean every peed-on pellet losing all it's pellet-like properties. The result is sawdust. Wait, let me rephrase that, WET sawdust. What a mess. Just one night this stuff was in the litter box and ugh! all over the place!!! So save yourselves!! It looks like Yesterday's News, but that's where the similarities end! I should have tried my luck with the fling-able litter beads!! :) Dooks to all! Jeanne & Baby the Wonderfuzz [Posted in FML issue 2856]