• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      12 hours ago

      I already am. At this point, if I’m buying something on Amazon, it’s because I cannot find a comparable product elsewhere.

      I’m even paying more at other retailers. I haven’t run the numbers but before I cancelled prime 4 years ago how, I easily spent thousands. Last year, I think I spent a few hundred.

      This year, my goal is less than 100.

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      11 hours ago

      Lots of small and even midsize sellers are basically forced into use Amazon, because if they don’t, then they don’t exist. So in some cases you literally cannot order the thing anywhere else.

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      11 hours ago

      I do, the only thing I buy off Amazon now is Zeolite mineral cat litter pellets. There’s simply no supplier in Canada, but I try sourcing from Ebay first.

      It sucks this specific cat litter isn’t more popular. It’s crazy how superior to clay/paper/wood/crystal whatever. Both in annual costs and cleanliness.

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          10 hours ago

          Unfortunately not, the bonzai tree crush doesn’t allow for urine drainage. I tried already, doesn’t dry out. Needs to be in a pellet form.

          Thanks for trying to help though!

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              2 hours ago

              Where have they marketed as a litter box product? If they have, I’m much more open to the idea. Searching “litter” on that page had no results.

              Im so skeptical because I’m under the impression now that the coarse bonzai tree crush wasn’t coarse enough and hampered air flow significantly leading to urine damp zeolite that didn’t drain into the soak pad underneath the Breeze litter boxes. Or perhaps more accurately: it drains most of it, but some moisture doesn’t evaporate.

              This clinoptilolite zeolite looks like an even finer crush, which makes me so doubt it’d work, but I’m just going off my previous layman experience.

              In comparison, you can see how large (with a lot of room to breathe, which I’m assuming is the difference which matters, but I could be mistaken) these zeolite cat litter pellets are:

              https://i.imgur.com/CUc9aZ0.jpeg

              All the competing brands use a similar pellet shape. Edit: although I don’t know if that’s because it’s important or if these companies are all using the same source and just slapping their various labels on it.