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I empathize with everyone else who has tried 'every type of litter.' I have. Clay is a heavy smelly dusty dirty misery. The crystals were dusty and tracked like crazy, and so did all the 'natural' corn/walnut shell/et al products. Pellets are a huge improvement - but the wood pellets I tried disintegrated so readily that dust built up in the box within a couple days. Zeolite pellets were great - but you need the specialized box and pads - which weren't bad, BUT, a strong ammonia odor becomes prevalent after a couple weeks. SO at my son's suggestion I tried tofu pellets. I've sampled four brands, and they all performed about the same - dust is MINIMAL, tracking MINIMAL, odor MINIMAL (I have not used a scented variety), CLUMPING is great due to the starches added to these products - please note that the starches will cause the clump to stick to the box till the clump has a chance to dry a bit, after which the clump will pop off. But every clump diminishes the amount of litter left in the box, so be ready to replenish regularly! Tofu litter IS Expensive!!! I had to adjust my budget. But I am happy with the overall performance. Maybe it costs the companies a lot to source, produce & market. Anyway, this litter is a medium grey due to charcoal added for odor control so it does not look as 'pretty' as the whitish brands - but the charcoal is a good functional addition so I accepted the color.

Low dust, little tracking, easy clumping My cat has asthma, so I'm extremely cautious as to the litter I choose. It must be unscented and low-dust. Additionally, it should track. It should be easy clumping and, ideally, flushable. This litter fits all the above. The size of the litter tightness of the litter bits mean there's virtually no dust. Since it isn't small particles, it tends not to track. It absorbs well, making very tight clumps that don't fall apart. My building management doesn't want animal waste thrown down the garbage disposal, so they want us to use flushable litter. It does a minute a so for the litter to break apart in the toilet so don't flush it immediately. Once it breaks apart, it flushes easily and cleanly. The litter is lightweight weight making it easy to carry the bags or reposition the litter box. The texture is like long-grain rice, which is why it does such a good job of avoiding dust and tracking. Although a bit pricey, it's an excellent litter. I like the fact that it's tofu/soy-based, making it biodegradable as well if that's a concern.

I tried a few different kinds of kitty litter. One was from diatomaceous earth, subscription-based only - did nothing to reduce the scents. The other was the refillable one from Petco, very dusty. So dusty that all shelves and contents of my bathroom cabinets were covered with a thick layer, like never before. It was inexpensive, and caring for 2 cats who both use the bathroom often, it was a serious consideration. The thing with these two cats is that they got a habit of pawing at the walls around their litter box and their food plates. My walls happen to be covered with glass as a matter of design. So you can imagine - the walls as well as the cabinets were constantly covered with dust, requiring so much cleaning that I couldn't take it anymore. I finally decided to try this litter, and I'm so happy I did. Paying over 3 times as much as the Petco's litter became worth it in the short term, because there's no dust. NO DUST!! It's been a week and a half, my walls are clean, and so are the insides of the cabinets. There's barely any bits of litter on the floor, and the cleaning necessity has been reduced to maybe 10% of what it was before. There are also no offensive smells whatsoever, none. Everything smells clean and nice. The litter being flushable is another great feature. I love not having to collect the waste into a plastic bag and keeping it in the vicinity of the litter box. Now, as to how long it lasts. They say that 1 bag will last a month for 1 cat. I bought a pack of 2, to test for that. On the 8th day, I poured the last portion of the 1st bag into the litter box. It's been about 10 days, and it won't last 2 full weeks, so 2 bags will not likely last a month for these 2 boys. Again, my cats both are pretty hydrated, eat well and go to the bathroom often. So paying 3 times more for the convenience - is a hefty upgrade . I hope they can make their bag portions maybe 20-30% bigger, that would be helpful. The quality is great though. I will keep this litter for a while and see if I can make it work expense-wise.

Not sure what I’m doing wrong here but my batch of 2 bags is not good on smell. It smells worse than Arm and Hammer, as well as Dr. Elsey’s Ultra. I would just turn my back on this cat litter — especially because 2 bags are lasting 1 month for my one cat — but there is no dust, and the tracking is negligible compared to the afore mentioned brands, and the clumping is so efficient that scooping time has been minimized significantly. 2 bags per month is around $700 per year. If I could get rid of the smell I would probably bite the bullet and fork out the money. I’ll give the lavender flavor a try and see if it is less stinky… *Update 1/6/26: I decided against the lavender solution, opted for a more difficult but also more effective solution to be free of nasty stink. I have gone from scooping the litter box once a day to scooping 4 or 5 times a day, approximately one scooping for every time Cat uses the litter box. This would not have been feasible with the sand/clay products I was using previously. Even scooping once a day with those products was potentially quite time consuming because of how messy those products would get if Cat’s urine managed to seep down to the stainless steel bottom of the litter box. In those situations I would be scooping up some kind of mud that was stuck to the bottom of the litter box and would then stick to the scoop and clog up a lot of the scoop holes, and break apart into smaller chunks that would fall back into the litter box. And I would have to scoop/scrape the same section of floor of the litter box over and over again to make sure I got most of the muddy mess scooped up, and then figure out ways to clean mess off the scoop and unclog the holes. But this product is so amazingly efficient at clumping that I haven’t yet encountered a muddy mess like that after 46 days of using it. And though I scoop a lot more often, a scooping takes me about 1/2 or 1/3 the time as a scooping using the clay/sand products. One thing to note about the scooping, my original scoop did not work well with the elongated litter granules so I invested in the Tuft and Paw scooper, figuring they would have made sure it was fully compatible with their own kitty litter granules. And it is: you slide the scoop along the bottom of the litter box and it slides under a clump and picks it up, along with a shovel-load of unused granules, which you can promptly shake until the unused granules fall out of the scoop, leaving you with just the clump of cat waste. Like panning for gold, a little bit, maybe. The scoop is a big and solid and tough piece of plastic with a long handle, and I’m thinking the maker might have coated it with teflon or something similar because messy stuff almost always just slides right off the scoop with just a light tap against the wall of the litter box. It all adds up to scooping being magnitudes easier along with clumping being magically more efficient. Another note to make is that I have made the 2 original bags of kitty litter last for 46 days so far, though at this point it just barely covers the floor of the litter box in a thin layer. Cat deposits his waste in the box and then scrapes all the surrounding unused granules into a big mound on top of the waste. Another reason for scooping pretty much every time Cat uses the litter box, because by the time Cat builds his little mound, about half of the floor of the litter box has no sand on it any more. Though I was impressed enough to buy 2 more bags, I am not yet convinced enough to upgrade this product to 5 stars or to commit to it long term. I have definitely figured out that it probably doesn’t work to simply replace your old kitty litter with this new stuff, because the new litter works better with different scoops and different methods of scooping. It is a whole new ballgame. I still might not stay with this product, though I will have to get really fed up with frequent scooping before I will want to go back to the frequent vacuuming of clay/sand granules all over the house, and the muddy-mess clogged scoop holes and stray chunks all over the litter box. Will update again after these next 2 bags, especially if I can find a better solution regarding the smell.

I have always considered that I bought high-quality litter for my kitty - as much for me as for her. A brand that I had been using for several years, and was quite happy with, changed their formula about a year ago and it got very dusty and tracking. What a mess it created in our home! I bought an air-purifier for the room the litter box was in, I dusted and vacuumed more often, it was still a mess. I tried another quality litter, and it basically did the same thing. I was giving up hope I could find something that I was actually happy with. I recently adopted a new kitten (RIP Abby) and this litter was recommended by the Humane Society where I adopted the kitten. It sounded good, but I was hesitant to believe the "hype." Could it really be that good? Well, new kitten and I have been using this litter for 4 weeks now and I must say it is AMAZING. It is VERY LOW tracking (and super easy to clean up the few pellets that get out 1 to 2 feet), VERY LOW dust, and clumps GREAT. It is WAY better than the quality clay litter we were using. The new kitten and I are VERY happy with it. I just reordered 3 more bags. I am going to try lavender this time. I have not been flushing it but should probably try that next. We have a good-sized potty box (but not huge), and by 3 weeks, the litter was quite shallow. It probably lasts more like 3 weeks with a larger pottybox. HOWEVER, I just scrubbed out the pottybox today, and kept the remaining litter from last month and am reusing it - new bag added to it in clean pottybox. Remaining litter does not seem to smell (thanks to great clumping.) I will toss everything left in another 4 weeks. With this strategy, I hope to comfortably get 8 weeks out of 2 bags. (One cat.) Thank you Tuft&Paw!