At what age can I switch my kitten to clumping litter?

[Elliotmarie]

Hi all! I have a kitten we got last Sunday, he turned 10 weeks on Friday and is currently using a pellet litter. I honestly don’t really like the litter as I can’t tell when he’s gone unless he’s really gone and it doesn’t help with smell at all. I have another litter I want to use but I believe it’s either corn or cassava. I was warned to not use clumping litter with him until he was a little older but I wasn’t quite sure how old. Any tips are appreciated!

[Mollycat]

It's only in case they eat it. The recommendation is 3 months old which is only another couple of weeks anyway.

[Ruth B]

While I've never had a kitten that young, I have used clumping litter for a long time. I used to use Catsan clumping litter which like many is clay based and the clumps could go rock hard and it felt like I needed a chisel to get the lumps off the sides of the tray. A while ago I changed to a corn kernel based litter (Syria from Amazon) and I've noticed that the clumps are a lot more friable making it a little harder to get them out of the tray in one piece but it would make it a lot safer if any got eaten. It doesn't glue itself to the sides of the tray either which is a good thing. It's biodegradable so there is a good chance it would get broken up a bit in the digestive tract which would help it pass through unlike the clay based litters.

I am no vet, and have no training on these matters it is just what I see and I know a little about how the body works. More research would certainly be worthwhile, but i think that a corn based litter would be a lot safer than a clay based one if small amounts were to get eaten.