WHAT I DO NOT LIKE:
-- Very Dusty!!!
-- Litter clumps around house.
-- Sticks to kitten's paws

WHAT I DO LIKE:
-- easy to scoop
-- smell

Unfortunately the dust is killing me! I am very very clean yet some pellets of clay end up on the floor and it takes more than my mop to clean it up. Yucky dusty film all over the room the litter is in and I end up having to wipe it down just about every single day. Yuck.

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This stuff is horrible. I ran out of my usual litter (Costco) and got this to fill in. Eeechhh! STINKS! Smells like someone broke a bottle of cheap perfume in the house. I know how sensitive cat noses are, and I felt guilty even pouring a little in their box. They must have had to hold their breaths, because I couldn't breath around this stuff. Second: dust! Again, between the strong perfume and dust, this was a killer. I was gagging and sneezing trying to pour this. I have asthma, so it "litter-ally" was killing me.

Third and most important: I ran across some blogs that warned about the dangers of clumping clay and silica litters. My youngest of my three cats is almost 10--they've been using clumping clay all their lives. I lost one two years ago to severe respiratory problems and I never connected it to the litter. I can't prove it anyway.

However, my other cat developed a slight cough (which he never did before) so I took him in (after Cujo died at age 7, I wait for nothing to take them to the vet). After an Xray is was determined that he his windpipes were so inflamed he was having trouble breathing. The vet told me to switch litters immediately. The benzonite silica in these clumping clay litters that causes the clumping is attracted to moisture and clumps immediately. When you or your cat breathe it it, it attempts to "clump your lungs" my vet told me. Of course it's made worse with covered boxes (I have the Booda dome). The damage is irreversible. Additionally, the dust from these litters gets on your cat's fur and is licked off. This stuff eventually ends up in the gut, where it does not move or dissolve, but merely builds up to block digestion. And one more, the clay must be strip mined, and cannot be recycled or composted or flushed...so back to the landfill it goes. I used to toss 2-3 pounds of clay-clumped pee and poo daily with 3-4 cats. I switched to Feline Pine, and now toss about 3 oz. of sawdust and poo daily. Big difference. If I had a garden I could compost it. Or flush it, but I would advise anyone against flushing litter, especially in CA: goes straight to the ocean and there's some big movement about how flushable litters kill sea otters...but that's another story.

I have been using this litter for several years and I love it. It clumps great, and has outstanding odor control; my litter box is down stair and I have four cats. My house never smells of cat urine or feces, and people are surprised that I have four cats and how my house does not smell like I have cats.
Note: If you have young kittens DON"T use any clumping litter because kittens just like human babies put everything in their mouth and when they come across any litter that got tracked onto the floor they will eat it and unless they receive immediate medical attention they will die. I fostered four kittens and their mother. Two of the kittens ate a very small amount of litter that the mother cat tracked onto the floor. Both kittens got extremely sick and had to spend spend three day at the animal hospital. After that incident I only used shredded newspaper until the kittens were old enough; about two and a half months old. I had no problem transitioning the cats to the clumping litter once they were old enough.

I tried this cat litter based on reviews I read online. I have 2 cats, 2 litter boxes. My cats were new to my home and had used a clay type litter at the animal shelter. They accepted the Fresh Step easily. I tried the multi-cat version. The scented litter had a very strong perfume smell. Knowing that cat's noses are sensitive I started mixing it with the unscented Fresh Step. This was better. However, after using this litter for a few weeks I noticed a dramatic increase of dust in my house - particulary visible on our black piano. I had to dust it twice a day and who has time for that!? My son also complained the dust bothered him. I switched to another brand (Precious Cat) that doesn't clump as well, but the dust is way less. The other thing I didn't like about the Fresh Step is that it stuck to the bottom of the plastic litter box with the cat's liquid waste. I haven't found the "perfect" litter yet, but I'll keep looking.

I used Fresh Step clay litter for quite a while; but I decided to try this clumping litter when it was recently on sale at the store. This Fresh Step "Premium" clumping cat litter is excellent for your favorite kitty's litter box. The company states that it is very good at absorbing odors--and, by golly, it's TRUE! The odors are minimal at the very most and it is quite comfortable even for my rather sensitive cat. Moreover, I really like how the litter has the capacity to absorb and prevent odor causing bacteria in the litter before my cat even uses his litter box.

If you have more than one cat the manufacturer does recommend, not surprisingly, that you use more cat litter in the box. Otherwise, if you have just one cat, two or three inches worth of this cat litter spread about evenly throughout the empty litter box will do fine. You should change the entire litter box once a week on average. (I change mine about twice a week just for my cat's comfort.)

It's also a good idea to scoop out any "kitty remains" every other day or so. If you can do it every day, that's even better. Be very certain NOT to flush any "kitty presents" down the toilet as the manufacturer warns against this. I suppose it could clog toilet pipes. Moreover, as you may suspect, any "kitty leftovers" could have some nasty germs that we don't want so wash your hands really carefully after you clean the box or even after you just remove any "kitty presents" with a scooper.

I recommend changing the entire litter box at least once a week. Place the contents of the used litter box into a trash bag and discard as you would any other garbage.

In short, this is a great cat litter product at a great price. The contents of the bag last a long time, especially if, like me, you have only one cat.

After trying this product, I don't mess around with anything else. It has eliminated all cat box odor, completely! Even on those really hot humid days, if you are a cat owner you KNOW what I am talking about. This is a truly outstanding product!