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Cat's Best Original cat litter has received mixed reviews. Many customers appreciate its excellent clumping ability and odour control, making it a favourite for years. However, recent changes in the formula have led to complaints about increased dustiness, poor clumping, and tracking issues. Despite these concerns, some users still find it economical and effective, highlighting its lightweight nature and pleasant woody scent. Overall, it's a product that has its ups and downs depending on individual preferences.

Top local reviews

great litter but be careful of the claims made!

I think this litter is fantastic and wouldn't use anything else, there's no smell from the tray and although it tracks a little bit I don't find it a problem, maybe as I have wooden floors so it can be swept up easily. It lasts for ages too. But please be careful of the claims that you can flush it!! I used to flush the clumps down the loo but recently had a nasty blockage and had to pay a big bill to get it cleared. The man informed me it was most likely due to the litter and not to do this again! took about 3 years for this to happen but still it was a hassle and expense I could have done without.

Best I've used

I clean clumps out as soon as I see them and have had no residual smells. This is the first litter I can say that about!! The litter is soft and I like the fact it's biodegradable. It does track a little but on my wooden floors that is easily swept up and is preferable to gritty particles getting trodden in.

Hit & Miss

Been using this litter for quite a while & found it to be great for my 3 Maine Coons. But recently it's not clumping as well & tracking far more :(

Absolutely the best.

10/10 Better at controlling odour than odour control litters, no dust, clumps amazingly, lasts for absolutely ages because you just remove the muck with minimal litter. The tracking is manageable and worth it for all the good this litter brings. The price is amazing for how long you get from it, I won't use anything else now.

Dusty

Have used Cats Best for a few years. I like the extra large bag for my six cats, but the downsides are: it used to clump well but doesn't anymore, it degrades and becomes powdery/dusty fairly quickly and lastly it tracks badly even with a mat in front of it.

not as good as I hoped

To repeat other reviews, it tracks easily out of the box. But my personal least favourite aspect of it was the smell - not of my cat's waste but of the product itself - kind of sour, burnt, weird coffee - yuk! I much prefer the freshness of wood pellets and as I compost all the litter (except faeces and faeces contaminated litter of course), I think wood chip/sawdust are much better as a biodegradable, nice smelling product that composts well

Systematically tired them all!

I have wooden floors and I found the grittier litters out there were slowly scratching the floors (when moving tray to clean and also feeling the small grit below my feet when walking by.) I have a kitty litter disposal system so I have to have a clumping cat litter. This is THE best clumping litter I have found so far. It clumps the urine very well, coats the solids and absorbs the odours remarkably well. It is lightweight to clean out with minimal waste. We have two indoor cats and yes, some is transferred by their paws to the surrounding floor but it does not scratch the wooden floor and has a soft, sponge like texture. We used to have a plug in air freshner close by to help with odours but this is no longer necessary. For us, this is our best discovery so far. The real bonus is......it last so long! We clean the tray of deposits, three to four times per day. We started with a 30L size bag four weeks ago and we still have a third of a bag left. It appears expensive but you really do see the saving. We were buying a 5L bag of cheaper cat litter £6 per bag) every 5-6 days. (Approx' 5-6 bags per month...costing around £30-36. We know we still have around another two weeks worth of this litter left. Buy cheap, you buy twice! Highly recommended.

Only good if you if you have a hoover at hand and an understanding family

We have 3 indoor cats. All are litter trained and are used to gravel and wood based litter. This is like tiny crumbs of litter. It gets stuck to their feet and gets distributed round the house. It went from the kitchen to the bed room on one morning. If the cats wee on it. It turns into a porridge like substance and then dries like a rock. Having to hoover daily and change trays every other day until it runs out :(

brilliant

was recommended this litter by a friend who has 10 cats (i only have 2) it is really great, lasts forever and the clumping of the pee is brilliant. One tip I was also given is to make sure you fill the trays quite full (using a deep tray) I was cautious at first but you dont waste any so the whole tray lasts for ages, the deeper the litter the better the pee clumps into little jelly balls. Sooo easy to deal with you just flush down the loo (or drain as i have trays outside as well).. highly recommended. I have long haired cats so the litter does track a little but no more than the wooden pellets that I was previously using. Give it a try you wont be disappointed.

Horrible to say the least!

We were given this free and still - even with it being free it was not worth it. I have to vacuum twice a day and use a broom almost hourly to sweep the wood pieces. The "aroma" is making us gag. This might be useful to help those who wish to lose weight. I assume the 5 star ratings were company provided :)

Fantastic find!

This is by far the best cat litter I have used. It definitely reduces the odour as well.

Horrible choice

Never buy it again. Very messy, dusty and smell is everywhere

Traces everywhere

I am also surprised about it being so highly rated. All its benefits are outweigh by the fact that it just traces all over the house. I thought that being more coarse than worlds best, will trace less, but it is just the opposite. With worlds best, we had to ho0ver every 2-3 days, now we need to do it 2-3 times a day. It is cheaper than worlds best, but actually somehow you waste more when cleaning, so not really good for me.

I can't believe how good this litter is!

Well all I can say is this cat litter is amazing! I can't even believe I am actually so excited about a cat litter lol! I have been wasting my money on supermarket litter for the past 6 months. I have tried all of them and even the clumping ones just turn into a horrible sticky mess! I was cleaning the whole litter out every other day and I was getting really fed up of doing it. So I looked on zooplus and read the reviews thinking yea yea it's not going to be as good as everyone says and boy was I wrong! This litter actually does clump into perfectly round balls that don't stick to the bottom of the tray! They are so easy to take out with a cat spade and has made cleaning the cat litter a lot less stressful. I put in one batch of litter nearly 2 weeks ago and I haven't had to change the whole thing at all! I just scoop the poop and wee each day and top up if needed. At this rate the 20L bag of litter is going to last us months! and that's with 2 kittens! Very very pleased!!

World's worst cat litter!!

I have no idea why this is rated so highly?? I've used lots of other litter in the past and this is the worst by far. It doesn't clump as well as other clumping litter but worst of all, the tracking is awful. Its sooo messy, all the floors in my flat are covered in litter from the tracking eventhough I use a special mat to capture the litter. It gets messy within hours of changing the litter and I just find myself cleaning the mess constantly. The litter also doesn't do a great job of masking the smells. Will go back to my previous litter I'm afraid.

Average

I'm not sure how this rates so highly in my opinion. While this litter does clump well it didn't mask or absorbed the smells as well as the wood based pellets I had previously. The tracking on this is also terrible even with the use of a hooded tray and a mat to catch any extra bits that might have got caught in my cat's paws. I won't be buying this again I'm afraid.

messy, but worth it.

Living in a flat, it's not easy to be emptying the litter out into the outside bin downstairs all the time, but this litter has solved that problem. Scoop the poop, flush it, and compost the wee clumps (which look like little balls of porridge oats!). It smells natural, unlike the weird talcum perfumed clumping litters I've used in the past. It may seem expensive, but it lasts ages, and in my opinion is absolutely worth it. Invest in a mat for outside the litter box though, or your house will end up COVERED in bits of wood chip litter!

Fantastic

Great litter. My cat loves it and so do I! It is low dust, low odour and biodegradable. Tracks a bit but not terribly. Clumps like a dream (make sure you get a scoop whose holes are neither too big nor too small!) and very economical because it does not have to be changed often and no clean litter is wasted.

oko plus cats best litter

Fantastic in everyway but - the tracking is terrible. If the manufacturers could lessen the tracking problem this litter would be 100% . I have 6 cats and am always hoovering, it even gets up the stairs, from the kitchen!

Composts brilliantly, no smell, best litter ever.

Over the past 17 years, with around 6 cats usually, I have tried lots of different litters, including World's Best, and all the rest. I prefer this one. I scoop poos, shake in the scoop to remove excess litter, and flush down the loo. Clumps of wet litter are scooped into a lidded bucket once a day and put on the compost heap, where the nitrogen is a great compost accelerator . This composts really quickly because it retains moisture. The wet areas turn into a soft clump like a ball of dough that is easily scooped out. Works best if you have a good depth of litter; if it's too shallow then the wet clumps go sticky. I've not had a problem with tracking; much better than wood pellets from that point of view. I do use it in deep litter trays mainly , ie plastic storage boxes, and when the cats climb out the litter falls back in. This is a tip I read ages ago , and certainly my cats prefer the deep boxes to normal cat litter trays.

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5 L (ca. 2,2 kg) - formato Prova!

Excellent product

It absorbs pee really well and forms a nice clump. It also does a great job with odours. Excellent product.

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40 l (aprox. 17,2 kg)

No dust at all

I love this litter, and so do my pets. There's hardly any dust, but I've noticed that when I buy the same amount split into two bags, it's sandier and creates more dust.

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40 l (ok. 17,2 kg)

Everything's fine

After reading the reviews, I went with another brand, but I came back and it turned out the reviews were lying. It clumps nicely, the cats like it, there are no problems with it, it doesn’t create dust, and it doesn’t hurt their paws.

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40 l (cca. 17,2 kg)

Lower quality

I've been using this litter for 4 years, and it was the best quality-wise. I never even tried to compare the price because it suited my needs perfectly. But the last two bags just aren't the same, it doesn't clump anymore, the litter just spreads everywhere. I'll give it another month, but unfortunately I'll have to give it up. I have 5 cats -> 3 litter boxes, and cleaning has become more tiring and less efficient.

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5 l (ca. 2,1 kg)

Good

Great bag, our Sammy feels comfortable with it and likes to use her loo.

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5 l (ca. 2,1 kg)

I'm disappointed with the cat litter

Hello, I've been using this cat litter for over 14 years. Since my last order, I'm really disappointed. The clumps are soaked all the way to the bottom. The clumps are way bigger than I've ever seen before. Obviously, a lot more litter is needed now. Has the product been changed or is it a production error with this batch?

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5 l (aprox. 2,1 kg)

Terrible

I've been using it for a long time, but lately it's just getting worse and worse. It creates a lot of dust, and the litter itself falls apart. I won't be buying it again. I'm really disappointed—I'm having the same issue with the food, it crumbles apart. I'm thinking of buying elsewhere. The quality leaves a lot to be desired.

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40 l (ca. 18 kg)

Terrible!

What a terrible cat litter! It's incredibly dusty! My cat comes out of the litter box short of breath and coughing. The whole house is covered in a white haze. Whenever I scoop the box, a cloud of dust hangs in the air. I've tried many types of litter, but this one is by far the worst.

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20 l (ok. 8,6 kg)

Worsened quality

The granules have changed to being big and sharp, so now my cats don’t like using the litter box filled with this litter anymore. Even when you step on it yourself, it’s really uncomfortable, so imagine how it feels for a cat’s paws. It’s a pity, because it used to be great.

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40 l (ca. 17,2 kg)

Has gotten very bad

I've been using this litter for almost 10 years, but the last 3 batches have been a disaster. It smells terrible. I even contacted Cats Best to ask why, but they just said they hadn't changed anything. It's a shame they don't take this seriously.

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40 l (ca. 17,2 kg)

Totally gone downhill

I've been using this cat litter since 2020, basically since I got my cats. It was recommended to me and I was absolutely thrilled with it. But for several weeks or even months now, I've noticed that it doesn't clump well at all, and the worst part for me is that it starts to smell bad really quickly!! I never had this problem with the litter before. It's such a shame because it's really hard to find a new, good litter.

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20 l (aprox. 8,6 kg)

Very practical, my cats like it

It's really practical for cleaning, since you can put the clumped pee straight into the toilet. After a few minutes, the pee dries and forms a ball, making it easy to remove. My two cats use it without any issues.

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40 l (ca. 18 kg)

Change in composition?

I've been using this cat litter for over a year now for my three Maine Coons and I was always super happy with it. The new bag I ordered now is useless. All the clumps from the pee fall apart straight away when I scoop and end up scattered all over the litter box. Really annoying. I'd like to know if the formula has changed or if it's still the same and I just got unlucky with my 40-litre bag.

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20 l (aprox. 8,6 kg)

Disappointment

Years ago, this was good litter, but the problem is it isn’t anymore. The quality has dropped a lot, it doesn’t even clump or anything now. You’ve lost a customer who used to buy this litter for years, but I just can’t put up with it anymore. Not giving it another chance, it’s terrible, honestly don’t buy it. Anything is better than this.

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