I scoop the tootsie rolls and bag the leftovers.
I’m pretty sure the corn chunks will clog a trap if they are given time to settle there.
Other biodegradable things like coffee grounds do this.
Thanks.
My brother taught his cat to use the toilet. No litter box required. I’m not kidding.
While corn-based litter is certainly better than clay, in general, the only things that should go down your drains is gray water (sink and shower drains), human waste, and toilet paper.
Anything else is just something else for your local wastewater treatment plant to deal with. Many municipalities are even banning garbage disposers, especially in areas where the community has outgrown the wastewater treatment plant, and therefore need expensive upgrades.
Sewage gets digested by bacteria at the wastewater treatment plants. The bacteria is optimized to eat fecal matter. Most other solids, including all inorganics (e.g. sand and “grit”), much of the non-fecal matter organics (e.g. food waste), and the indigestible fecal matter, just builds up as sludge that the treatment plant has to scrape out, dry out, and dispose of at a landfill.
It’s a lot cheaper and more efficient for you to simply throw trash in the trash can yourself for proper disposal, instead of flushing it down the toilet.
We occasionally work on guidelines for the public for municipalities, and the first thing we always emphasize is: “Your toilet is NOT a trash can.”
Here’s one set of guidelines for proper disposal of various household wastes:
http://dnr.metrokc.gov/WTD/community/oldstuff.htm
I use World’s Best Cat Litter (made out of corn)… it’s fabulous and purely flushable. I wouldn’t recommend flushing the regular litter but if something explicitly bills itself as being flushable, I think you’re going to be fine.
Or freeze it and bag it. 
That’s what I use, but even then I wonder about how it might bugger up the septic system (e.g. what Pliny said). I wonder if the stuff thoroughly decomposes or not.
There are quite a few people who have managed this, although it seems like a pointless effort for very little reward, if you ask me.
I also flush my cats’ presents (wrap them in a napkin after scooping) and never had any problems.
I purchased a kit to help train kitty to use the toilet.
One wet cat later . . . we’re still using the litter box.
That’s nice that you’ve never had any problems. The folks further down the sewer line can just deal with it, right?
From the document I linked to above:
“Animals and pets:
Dispose of in your sink, toilet or other household drain?
[Answer]: No.”
For that matter:
“Paper towels and napkins:
Dispose of in your sink, toilet or other household drain?
[Answer]: No.”
A lot of things bill themselves as flushable that still shouldn’t be flushed. This corn-based cat litter, for instance, is probably billed as “flushable” because it’s relatively low density (compared to the clay type) and probably floats. (If it didn’t float, it would have little chance of flowing down the lines.) Guess what it does as soon as it hits a pumping station or the treatment plant? It floats, and it (and similar material) builds up a layer that eventually interferes with the flow control equipment such that someone gets to go down there and skim it off.
Not to mention the fact, that since it is clumpable cat litter, it still has a pretty good chance of causing a blockage in a line.
I’ll say it again: YOUR TOILET IS NOT A TRASH CAN!
Forgive my vehemence, but you get a little tired after a while of people with this general attitude. Spend some time in the wastewater industry, and you’d understand.
And while “flushable” cat litter and rodents are relatively minor sins, you tend to adopt a zero-tolerance attitude when you see some of the other things people flush down the toilet.
If what you flush down does ever cause a blockage in the sewer mains, BTW, expect to pay for the full cost of the repair if it can be traced to your house.
P.S. Guinastasia, by your cats’ “presents,” I assume you meant the mice that they catch.
Actually, it sinks. When the cat urinates, it clumps. When the clumps are put in water, they break down back into indivual corn crumbs. Would this sort of stuff bugger up a septic field system?
Thanks, Gfactor. What’s especially awesome is that this is definitely the article I read that gave me the vague recollection I referred to in the OP.
I’m going to have to get one of those – what a terrific idea!
My sister had not problems like this. Her cat used the toilet.
No, not mice-I meant cat turds.
C’mon, robby, you can’t say that and then not give us entertaining examples of what people have thrown down their toilets.
Darnit, no more Toilet Funerals for Fishie*
*Band Name!
Whoops. :smack: Sorry. I figured you were the one flushing down all those animals.
Let’s see…
Cigarettes, condoms, sanitary napkins, tampons, razor blades, paper towels, napkins, band-aids, Q-tips, rags, string, and some clown who keeps flushing down styrofoam packing peanuts.
The rags and string are the worst. They wrap around the pump impellors in the pumping stations and stop the pumps. Then someone (not me 
) has to pull the clogged pump out, hose off the sewage, and disassemble the pump until the material can be cleared out by hand. Loads of fun.
Then you get the crazy people who flush down dirt, sand, etc. They don’t usually do this for long before they clog their own line.
Then you get the sociopaths who flush down gasoline, oil, or other hazardous chemicals. These are both an environmental hazard as well as a safety hazard for treatment plant operators.