question for cat people July 23, 2005, 06:36:03 pm Yahoo Message Number: 56047I'm going to be traveling with two kitties. Does anyone use the flushable style litter? Can the black tank handle it?Lilla
Re: question for cat people Reply #1 – July 23, 2005, 07:36:54 pm Yahoo Message Number: 56051wrote: I'm going to be traveling with two kitties. Does anyone use the flushable style litter? Can the black tank handle it? I used a part of one bag of "flushable" cat litter (and cat deposits) in a house toilet on a sewer system; it took several flushes to get the stuff down, and then the whole thing stopped up, to the delight of a local plumber. I cleaned the cat boxes the old fashioned way and bagged the contents for the rest of the so-called "flushable" bag's life. I suggest that an RV toilet/black tank is *far less forgiving* than a household toilet, even one on a septic system. IMO, bagging the litter and waste and disposing of it in the trash will prevent a lot of black tank grief. There's an old sailing adage that says, "If it ain't been et yet, it don't go down the head!" Good advice for RV "heads", too. (Fast- dissolving TP is an exception.)Joan
Re: question for cat people Reply #2 – July 24, 2005, 03:19:59 am Yahoo Message Number: 56063Lilla, I occasionally take a cat along when I'm
Re: question for cat people Reply #3 – July 24, 2005, 08:57:31 am Yahoo Message Number: 56065"Does anyone use the flushable style litter? Can the black tank handle it?" As others have said, that's most likely a bad idea. I use Scoop Away clumping litter, seal each day's detritus in a cheap plastic sandwich bag (I use the zipper-lock type) and throw it in the wastebasket.Andy Baird
Re: question for cat people Reply #4 – July 24, 2005, 10:04:34 am Yahoo Message Number: 56066No way will we put anything
Re: [Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Re: question for cat people Reply #5 – July 24, 2005, 12:21:03 pm Yahoo Message Number: 56067Hi Doris. I'd like to thank you and everyone who has replied about the litter. I definitely will bag.This will be a surprise to the kitties. they have both been inside the RV and they've seen me come and go in it. But I'm sure they will think we are heading to the vet when we leave Wednesday. I have bought some new toys and catnip for the trip, and will have their beds.I also use Feliway - which is an artificial pheromone product that you can either get
[Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Re: question for cat people Reply #6 – July 24, 2005, 12:49:03 pm Yahoo Message Number: 56069Our cat (who was about 7 years old when we got our LD) howled like a banshee for hours non-stop when we first took her in the RV.Now she's a happy traveler. She now transitions effortlessly from house to RV. Stuff that worked for us includes:If you can bring the cats' bed from home it may help. We also let the cat stay in the RV for an extended period of time whle it's parked in the driveway being loaded and the refrig is being cooled. Ours likes to sleep on the space bewteen the front seats because its warm from the transmission. She cannot move very far in event of a sudden stop and the carpeted engine cover is right in front of her. We also have a crate that her bed normally stays at home. We put a dulicate crate in the RV in the space forward overcab bunk space, which we use only for light storage. She jumps up and down (NOT while the RV is moving) and likes the the high location. Plus the pherenome you mentioned seems to help any time we travel with her. Also we've given her another herbal/ natural product that seems to calm her. We got it at the pet shop. We gave it to her in her water for about 24 hours before a trip. it seems to have worked well on two cross-country plane trips.
Re: [Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Re: question for cat people Reply #7 – July 24, 2005, 01:04:10 pm Yahoo Message Number: 56070I honestly hope this isn't the re-start of a TP thread. Any new folks can do a search of the archives under TP and find out all they ever wanted to know about the merits of using vs not using the holding tank for TP. I just hope that all the folks who don't use the holding tank for it use ziplock or similar bags for it and seal them real good. By the way, we use the holding tank for ours and have had "Nary a quiver from the waste system" after 4+years and over 60,000 miles.Now maybe if I were in South America......? ? ? ? ??Rich 2000 MB Birch Bay, WA
[Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Re: question for cat people Reply #8 – July 24, 2005, 05:59:13 pm Yahoo Message Number: 56077Quote any other suggestions? Hi Lilla,We've been traveling with our now 15 year old cat for 3 years, and he's always been a great traveler. He finally settled on riding in the front of the cabover bed while we're underway. We only hear from him if he needs to use his box, or when we stop. At home he is an indoor and outdoor cat, but always remains inside when we are traveling in the LD. He's been to Alaska and back, and has been across the country once.The suggestion to have a tag made with your cell phone number is a great one, but I would add a couple of things...include a land line number, such as a relative or friend (or your own, if you collect voice mail on the road) just in case you're out of cell phone reach. Also, we've had both our cat and dog implanted with a microchip. Almost all shelters and vets have the equipment to scan for a chip and this provides all information in case a harness or collar is lost. (Our cat easily removes his collar when he so chooses.)Sandy
[Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Re: question for cat people Reply #9 – July 24, 2005, 08:00:19 pm Yahoo Message Number: 56078Our cat's tag has cell number PLUs home number. I forgot to add that. She does not try to get the collar off even thoguh she rarely wears it at home.Also, read in my newspaper yesterday that there are two kinds of scanners and two kinds of microchip tags. High frequency and low frequency. Some shelters have one frequency, some the other. Wrong scanner meets wrong chip and the tag goes unread. If true, this is a dumb, dangerous sitiuation for pets. I know no more than what I read.
[Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Re: question for cat people Reply #10 – July 25, 2005, 03:39:50 am Yahoo Message Number: 56088Bob, You're right, this is a dumb situation. The shelters around here (Sacramento, CA) have scanners for both brands of chips, and I've heard that scanners are supposed to be developed to read both brands, but don't know that it's happened. Shelters tend to get the scanners free from the chip manufacturers, and I certainly hope all shelters have both. By the way, AVID is the older company in the pet microchip market, then the American Kennel Club jumped onto the bandwagon and introduced its own nonconforming chips (Home Again is its name, I think).DorisQuoteAlso, read in my newspaper yesterday that there are two kinds of scanners and two kinds of microchip tags. High frequency and low frequency. Some shelters have one frequency, some the other. Wrong scanner meets wrong chip and the tag goes unread. If true, this is a dumb, dangerous sitiuation for pets. I know no more than what I read.
[Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Re: question for cat people Reply #11 – July 25, 2005, 01:17:35 pm Yahoo Message Number: 56102Here's what I found on the web: http://www.veterinarypartner.com/Content.plx?P=A&A=1997&S=0&SourceID=28Basically, 2 companies have been chipping with the same frequency for a while now. Most shelters have scanners for these. Banfield (part of Petsmart) introduced a different frequency chip that, while being the same frequency as used elsewhere, was not the same one as has been used
[Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Re: question for cat people Reply #12 – July 27, 2005, 07:06:39 pm Yahoo Message Number: 56159Well Rich, if you don't want to talk about it why are you? Also if you didn't make tacky cracks about it, that would help. Since diapers are thrown straight into the garbage everywhere I've been
[Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Re: question for cat people, now TP disp Reply #13 – July 27, 2005, 11:25:02 pm Yahoo Message Number: 56169I have seen several announcements over the past week about a new toilet tissue from Potlatch Corporation called SepticSure™. The PR handouts claim that it dissolves up to 8 times faster than regular TP, and 6 times faster than marine/rv TP. In texture and feel it is claimed to be equivalent to high-end TP. Here is the web site:http://www.septicsure.com/Will
[Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Re: question for cat people, now TP disp Reply #14 – July 27, 2005, 11:42:34 pm Yahoo Message Number: 56173QuoteI have seen several announcements over the past week about a new toilet tissue from Potlatch Corporation called SepticSure™. The PR handouts claim that it dissolves up to 8 times faster than regular TP, Quoteand 6 times faster than marine/rv TP. In texture and feel it is claimed to be equivalent to high-end TP. Here is the web site:http://www.septicsure.com/Will Yeah, but woe be to the hapless and unhappy camper who wipes his butt too slowly only to have the TP disolve mid-stroke (g).bumper (sorry for my sick sense of humor!)
Re: question for cat people, now TP disposal Reply #15 – July 28, 2005, 09:41:14 am Yahoo Message Number: 56184wrote: I have seen several announcements over the past week about a new toilet tissue from Potlatch Corporation called SepticSure™. The PR handouts claim that it dissolves up to 8 times faster than regular TP, and 6 times faster than marine/rv TP. In texture and feel it is claimed to be equivalent to high-end TP. Here is the web site: Will, I've seen the hype on this TP, too, and am skeptical about their claims. IMO, folks (who prefer to put used TP down the RV toilet rather than sealing it in a ziplock for disposal) can do the standard "dissolve" test on a few brands of inexpensive "store TP" (not *necessarily* one-ply!) and see which one disintegrates most quickly. The test is simple: fill a lidded jar (about a pint works well) about half or more with water. Throw in two or three sheets of TP. Put the lid on and shake it up. Wait for a couple of minutes and see how much the TP sheets have disintegrated. Use the TP that "mushes" and falls apart into shreds the fastest and most completely.Joan
question for cat people Reply #16 – July 23, 2005, 08:32:38 pm Yahoo Message Number: 56054QuoteI'm going to be traveling with two kitties. Does anyone use the flushable style litter? Can the black tank handle it. We don't travel with cats, but we have had them. I wouldn't put any kind of litter down into the black tank. Only human waste, water, and toilet paper (and some people don't even put T.P. down into the black tank!).Linda Hylton2004 Red 23.5' TKFrom Pit River Campground (BLM) See where we are: http://map.datastormusers.com/user2.cfm?user=1167
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