Odor virtually disappeared when I added this to the box
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Best Sellers in Pet Supplies
i am very impressed with this litter so far when i first received it and added it to my cats litter box i was pleasantly surprised not to be able to smell anything at all from the box normally theres always a little bit of odor when i walk past the laundry room no matter how often i scoop this litter completely smothers any odor when the litterbox has been scooped and i can still barely smell anything when walking past the laundry room even if the box needs to be scooped its important to note however that i have a hooded litterbox with a flap over the entrance and i scoop the box usually every other day i have two cats and they fill a litterbox quickly however keeping 4 or so inches in the box allows them to bury things better and means i can scoop the box less and smell odors less i havent kept 34 inches in the box in the past because it takes so much litter that i would have to buy two pails just to fill it to 34 and then have clean to add to it as i scoop it however this litters granules are larger than most others and the 40 lb bag is excellent for the price after adding 34 inches of litter to my cats xl size hooded box theres still at least 23 of a bag left after scooping the litter left in the box looks clean and doesnt get discolored and wet like other litters ive used so far i havent added any extra litter to the box with other litters ive used i usually feel the need to add some on top often after scooping because the litter in the box gets stinky really fast with this litter i can see myself only adding more when the level in the box gets lower and thats what i want i originally searched for another type of litter because one of my cats has a coughing problem and i wanted to see if switching to an unscented dust free litter would help i wish it was completely dust free but 01 dust isnt much to complain about i havent noticed any dust at all and my cat rarely coughs any more one thing of note about this litter is that it is extremely heavy i say this as a man who regularly lifts upwards of 100 lbs at work this stuff feels like its made of lead i think the fact that it comes in a bag without many places to gain purchase makes it harder to lift i recommend lifting it up and hugging it with both hands on the bag when pouring instead of trying to hold one corner of the bag as this makes the litter pour out very slowly that being said its also best to support the spout or the corner you cut open with one hand otherwise the top part of the bag is going to go limp and dump a ton of litter into the box the weight of the bag does make it cumbersome but im willing to deal with the logistics of it for the quality of the litter however i do recommend getting a metal litter scoop the plastic one i have bends unless im careful about how fast and at what angle i scoop it makes getting into the corners difficult and i expect the plastic scoop to break soon ill definitely be getting a metal scoop when that happens despite the heaviness of the litter its very easy to scoop my cats love to dig in the corner of the box and pee which makes the pee get stuck on the side of the box this litter is very easy to scrape off the sides however it also clumps very tightly and even weaker clumps like those formed by the urine scraped off the side of the box have the consistency of a thick sandy paste and are very scoopable i havent had any clumps fall apart on me also an unforseen benefit of the heaviness and coarseness of this litter is that my litter mat can catch tracked litter a lot better since switching to this litter there have been a lot less stray granules all over the laundry room floor and i havent seen any litter clumped in the fur on the bottoms of my longhaired cats paws which is what happened with the last litter i was using overall im very pleased with this litter especially considering its about 17 for a 40 lb bag i could easily see one bag of this litter lasting me two months even with two cats that being said im concerned about the price fluctuations and discrepancies in quality noted by other reviewers if the price does go up beyond how much im willing to pay i will probably search for another site to order this litter from or just look for another brand the value of this litter is a huge factor of how much i like it so taking that away would definitely turn me away from buying this litter regularly and exclusively which is what i plan to do if everything remains the same as with this first order if i receive a bag of product with bad quality i wont be ordering this litter from amazon again and will try to find somewhere else to order it from instead but that being said im very pleased with the product that i have received for this first order and i will definitely be purchasing this product again