Okay, so. My last plan didn't work so well.
Why?
Basically because I'm a terrible gardener. I'm pretty confident that if I'd watered the grass everyday, both to water the grass and to dilute the urine, this would have worked great. Neglected as it was this lasted for like 2 months (watered every few days...). Eventually all the grass died, mostly because I slowly stopped watering it. Poo was hard to pick up out of the grass because it got pretty long, so I think a flatter groundcover would have been smarter (Stepables, anyone?).
But what have I been using for the last year or so?
Tidy Cats Breeze.
This is by no means perfect. I had this indoors for awhile and that helped with the maintenance (hard to ignore the smell of poo and ammonia), but I've had it out on the patio for the last year. Roxy likes to climb over it and pee on the concrete of the patio, so I put the whole until in a metal wire kennel and then stuck that directly in front of the dog door to limit her choices down to...well one.
How it works: your dog climbs onto the level with the pellets, pees and poos there. The poo stays up there where you can easily scoop it out and throw it away and the urine drains through and soaks into the pad below. The pad in the base gets saturated in about 1.5-2 weeks. The clay pellets are probably useless and act more as a bacteria collector than anything else, but I haven't tried to change that yet. You scoop out the poo and change the pad, that's it. I spray it all down with diluted bleach water every time I change the pad.
I've heard of people using those pine pellets in it, so that the saturated ones break apart and filter through the cracks into the try, but I just imagine clean up to be a royal mess every time you have to pull out that tray of urine-soaked sawdust.
It works. It's not the best. But I'm moving in a couple months and don't see myself trying anything else until then. It has worked for me for a little over a year and a half.
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