If kitty litter has no baking soda freshener in it, then it all can go into the compost pile. If you choose to pull out the dung, then that's fine.

I would use urine soaked corn product litter in a hot compost bin. The concern for many would be pathogens. If you are going to use feline urine, do so in a hot pile and then let the compost cure for a couple months. I don't know if there is any difference between human and feline urine. I have heard that humans can catch disease from cat litter boxes. If your cats are inside cats and in good health, I believe the risk would be minimal for hot composting. Bill Hill

I have a cat that prefers shredded newspaper to do his duty in. (urine only) and I have no problem using it in my compost heap.

I believe the prior poster was writing about toxoplasmosis. Its carried in the stool not the urine.
If you have a litter box indoors and your cat is infected with it, the chances are you already caught it just from cleaning the litter box. (flu like symptoms).

Toxoplasmosis can also be contracted by eating infected, undercooked meat or by eating contaminated fruit or vegetables. If you have had cats for some time, you may have already been exposed to toxoplasmosis and developed immunity to it.

Pregant women that have not been exposed to it prior to becoming pregant should not clean litter boxes, or dig in the garden where cats have used it as a toilet.

It's plain corn unscented and nothing added to it.

If its just corn I would use it. I use a corn based litter too but it has chemicals in it to make it clump and its strongly fragrant. (most of our cats dont like it either).

The concern for many would be pathogens. If you are going to use feline urine, do so in a hot pile and then let the compost cure for a couple months.

I agree with Bill. Hot piles and would add only from healthy animals that have had all their shots. There are any number of bacteria, virus, parasites, and zoonotic diseases, toxoplasmosis is only one of them, that can be contracted from animal wastes. This is one reason why 4-6 months of composting is recommended for all animal waste products.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta have said that most emerging diseases around the world are zoonotic and that 11 of the last 12 emerging infections in the world with serious health consequences has come from animal sources.

Now I am not saying that your cat is the source of the next great plague by any means. ;) Just that some care and common sense needs to be exercised when dealing with animal waste products.

Do it but do it right.

Dave

If corn litter clumps, is it because of something else. I wrote it was plain corn and on the bag, there is nothing to indicate anything else was added. I thought clumping takes place when corn gets wet.

Many people wil ltell you that you can compost your kitty litter, but those that dig into compost will tell you it is not a good idea because of the very high potential tht the disease pathogens and parasites that live in that excrement are not easily killed in even a universities compost that is closely monitored. Toxoplasmosis is fairly high on that list.

yugoslava, does the bag say clumping litter? If so its got polymers in it to make it clump. Are they bad? I dont know the answer to that. Someone else?

As for feces, I agree, thats a bad thing to compost in the home garden, not saying it cant be done, heck human waste can be composted if you know what your doing, its just most people dont have the knowledge or the facilities to deal with it correctly.

And I also agree, urine from healthy animals (human or otherwise) only. Usually though, if you have a cat and have been cleaning the litter box for many years, if the cat has it, you've been exposed to it. Whatever "it" may be.