SmartCat All Natural Clumping Cat Litter, 10 Pound (160oz 1 Pack) – Alternative to Clay and Pellet Litter – Chemical and 99% Dust Free – Unscented and Lightweight

UNSCENTED, excellent clumping & no noticeable dust, real-time and accumulated. REALLY. NO DUST.
In manufacturing, there is a desire for fast, high quality and cheap. You can only ever have 2 out of 3.Cat litter is like that, too: Clumping, tracking, dust. You can never have all 3.I gave this litter 5 stars because it gave me the 2 that I had to have: clumping, and no dust. And I don’t mean “no dust” like the “99.9% dust free” that I see on litters that, when I stick my head in the pan to scoop, choke me, and make me wipe all surrounding surfaces to get that sticky non-dust off.I mean, “no dust” as in:- none in the air when I vigorously scoop (I get the faintest whiff of a grain-like scent, though, but it’s a faint, natural, outdoor smell (this is UNSECNTED – yay!).- so close to none on the surrounding surfaces- even wiping the litter mat after a month had only a minor amount of dirtPreviously, I have used “Dr Elsey’s” and the walnut litters (usually combined). Both are great litters, and do their job, and I would love to use them if the box was in the garage, but not in the house.They clump well, track a bit, swear there is no dust, but my experience was dusty. Maybe my cat is a digger and a litter-shuffler (she is), and she will repeatedly go back and elaboratley mess around in the clean litter until someone cleans it.If your cat goes in, does its stuff, covers discreetly and gets out, they are probably fine.CAVEAT on the clumping: give it a few minutes. Try to scoop immediately and it is a sticky mess (but I think this is normal for all litters).Other reasons I love it:- UNSCENTED (healthier for me, healthier for my cats)- good, very faint, natural smell- unlikely to damage any hardwood floors (the litter consistency is more like flakes of uncooked cream-of-wheat than grits/sand)- vacuums up easily (I can’t tell you how annoying it is to have the stick vacuum just push granules of tracked clumping litter around in front of the vacuum head as you try to clean it (I’m looking at you, “Dr Elsey’s”)! Not with this…just gets sucked right up).- no odor (okay, if my cat leaves a stinking bomb – nothing will work, not Poo-Pourri, Febreeze or a 14-year-old boy’s dosage of Axe body spray, so I don’t use that as a litter odor metric, ever…it’s just got to go). But I stick my head into the top if the litter box enclosure and dig around, even after a month, no pee smell ever, no lingering poop smell (assuming none is waiting to be removed), smells fresh as the day I washed the box.- no rock formations cemented to the sides: “Dr Elsey’s” was prone to this, but this litter almost seems to protect the box. Scoop stuff up and it rarely leaves anything stuck on the box.- less weird feeling on the hands: you know what I mean, that tacky/slimy feel on your fingers when you wash them after you get some the dust on them…guess because there is really virtually no dust.- I use a jumbo litter boxhttps://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075WX7BPD/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1and shield, and I pour one bag of litter in at the beginning of the month. Occasionally, I have to add a bit more at the end of week 3, but I am more generous because I have a digger.PHOTOS:- photo into the litter box, lid removed – I wiped. the sides inside with the black cloth- “dust” on black cloth – I wiped the inside of the litter enclosure after 3 weeks, using a fleece cloth.- Tracked litter on litter mat- wet wipes from wiping litter mat after a month of use (there are two, because my scrubbing caused the wipes to shred)

Honestly I don’t get the negative reviews — I literally buy this from Amazon so I can do a review here!To be fair, I once talked to a PetValu staff who seemed to be very knowledgable and told me that just like human, we’re what we eat and the same goes to the cats: so each cat would have totally different PH value and different things in the urine which ultimately resulted in the clump-ability of different litters.However that being said, after having used literally pretty much all the brands and all types of litter in the market (seriously, all of them! because I have a very finicky cat who would pee on the floor left you scratch your head off not understanding why!), this is really by far the best litter that I’ve ever tried, period! If it’s all possible, I would give it 6 stars!I only have two cats, but it’s 2 of 2 “kitty approved” 🙂 Both of them love it better than any other type and brand. It clumps really well — seriously, you don’t see any other litter company does the same demo like SmartCat by throwing a clumped litter like a ball and see how well it holds.Also it covers the smell really, really well. In the past, especially when we have heat alerts, my bathroom tends to have some sour leftover food type of garbage smell with the other natural based litter. But with this, even with the heat wave this year, my bathroom is perfectly fine!And really, there is no dust. — does it track? Of course! I haven’t come across ANY litter that my cats weren’t capable of tracking; seriously, zero brand or product! But with SmartCat it’s tolerable and also when you step on it, it won’t hurt and you won’t feel like you’re living at your beach house.Seeing is believing! — I attach a few pictures to showcase how well it clumps and how little it tracks (and for my other cat who doesn’t like to cover his pee or poop, the tracking is far less with my unique litter pan here!!)Yes it’s on the pricy side, but it really worth of every penny. I used to use the other famous brand of corn based litter, but now I’m a hardcore fan of SmartCat. I just wish I had come across that YouTube commercial and review much earlier and it would save me years of trouble with my litter problems!!

Litter bag was damaged and litter was all over the place. What a service!!