Litter & Litter Boxes
From $8 litter to robots that cost more than your first car.
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A cat product publication
Good stuff for cats. No nonsense for humans.
We dig through the litter box of cat products so you don’t have to.
Independent guides, product roundups, comparisons, and recommendations for people who are completely normal about their cats.
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What are you trying to solve?
Six starting points. No forty-item mega-menu. No cartoon paw prints.
Food & Treats
What’s actually worth putting in the bowl.
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Cat Furniture
Cat trees that don’t destroy your living room aesthetic.
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Cat Tech
Feeders, fountains, trackers, cameras and unnecessary-but-amazing gadgets.
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Toys & Enrichment
Because the cardboard box can’t win every time.
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Cat Parent Essentials
The stuff nobody tells you you’ll end up buying.
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Recommendations
Stuff We’d Actually Buy
Example cards only. These are not test results, scores, or a claim that we personally ran a lab.
Best Automatic Litter Box
A buying guide for the scoop-averse, with the tradeoffs these machines still will not advertise.
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Best Cat Water Fountain
What to prioritize before you buy another appliance your cat may refuse on principle.
See Our PickBest Cat Tree for Normal-Looking Homes
Vertical real estate that does not look like it escaped from a 2004 pet catalog.
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Best GPS Tracker for Cats
How to think about collars, batteries, and whether your cat even needs one.
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Useful Cat Stuff, Minus the Fluff
Guides and comparisons written like a friend who has already done the tab-closing for you.
PrettyLitter vs Traditional Litter: Is It Actually Worth It?
A clear-eyed look at crystal litter, monthly subscriptions, and whether color-changing crystals change anything besides your checkout total.
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The Best Automatic Litter Boxes for People Who Hate Scooping
What these machines actually do, what they still require of you, and how to think about the ones that cost as much as furniture.
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9 Cat Trees That Don’t Look Like Carpeted Nightmares
Sculptural, wood, wall-mounted, and otherwise livable options for people who would like their living room to remain a living room.
8 min read
Should Your Cat Wear a GPS Tracker?
Indoor-only, backyard wanderer, or professional escape artist: when a tracker is useful, when it is not, and what the collar itself has to get right.
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Wet Food vs Dry Food: What Matters Most?
Moisture, ingredients, budget, and picky eaters. A practical breakdown without the internet’s usual food-bowl morality play.
10 min read
What to Look for Before Buying a Cat Water Fountain
Capacity, cleaning, noise, filters, and the one question that matters: will you actually keep this thing from becoming a science experiment?
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Why this exists
Purrstrings exists because buying something for a cat should not require opening 37 tabs, reading fake reviews, and discovering every recommendation was written by someone trying to sell the same product.
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