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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

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.

Stunk up the whole house

We tried this out after reading the good reviews, eager to have a flushable cat litter. This litter STINKS! I was cleaning the litter tray twice a day, and you could still smell it all over the house. It didn't clump properly either, and made a huge mess when getting scooped, as well as when it got tracked all over the house. Cannot for the life of me understand the glowing reviews, this litter was a nightmare!!

Fantastic litter

We would highly recommend this. It lasts such a long time and completely hides any smells very well too. We bought a 40litre bag 7 weeks ago for our 2 kittens and haven't even used half of it yet. Brilliant product and zooplus have the most competitive price for it

Good but not Fantastic

I have 4 indoor cats and switched to this litter a couple of months ago, because a lot of reviews said it was low dust, I’d hate to think what they would call a lot of dust because the dust is far worse than it was from the clay based litter I was using, you can see clouds of dust floating up and around the cats as they use the litter trays which makes me wonder what kind of effect its having on their lungs. Its odour disguising properties are fantastic (or at least it is unless you have a kitty that refuses point blank to bury his mess) it lasts for ages and the cats seem to love it, it tracks everywhere, the floor around the litter trays looks like an explosion in a cornflake factory.

Our favourite litter

Really good product. Environmentally friendly because it is made of wood chips, because it is light and absorbs many times its mass, because it doesn't come from Canada unlike most clays and because it is flushable (think dispersible aspirin tablet, it just breaks down into dust when in water!). Also, it does track but no more than others and much less than very fine clay litters, being light coloured poo is immediately visible and, it blocks the smells rather well with no chemicals! Lastly, it is economical as it lasts for really really long so even though the purchase price is higher, we have calculated that it is no more expensive than the cheap brands to use. Awesome product.

Reviews from other countries

17,2  kg (ca. 40 l)

Perfect for us

It clumps well and doesn’t create much dust. If you clean the litter box regularly, it doesn’t smell. Some gets carried out on their paws, but with daily sweeping around the toilet, it’s not a problem. Our cats don’t like scented litter, so this is perfect for them.

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40 l (ok. 17,2 kg)

I always buy it. Good price.

It's just a shame that zooplus packs it in a big box. It would easily fit in a slightly smaller one if the top packaging was bent. And it makes a difference to me, because I prefer to collect my deliveries from the parcel locker.

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40 L (ca. 18 kg)

It's not the same anymore

I’ve seen that other people have had the same experience as me. I bought it for two years, it was really excellent. For months now, it’s not the same anymore. It DOESN’T CLUMP anymore. As for the smell, unfortunately I’ll have to try again because I bought a similar one, but the bad odour isn’t neutralised.

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20 L (environ 8,6 kg)

Very good litter

Very practical and pleasant natural litter for the cat, she doesn’t scatter it everywhere.

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5 l (aprox. 2,1 kg)

Lately, it gives off dust

I've always used this litter and been really happy with it, but lately it's been giving off loads of dust. Even when I scoop it, I end up coughing from all the dust—imagine what it's like for the cats. I'm thinking about switching to a different one.

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10 L (environ 4,3 kg)

Brilliant

I've been using this litter for a few months now and honestly I don't regret it at all, it's really great. Plus, with a big bag I can fill five litter trays and still have some left over, so it's really good when you have several cats.

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5 l (aprox. 2,1 kg)

Dusty

The sand is very dusty, which is a shame because it goes a long way and clumps well.

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17,2  kg (ca. 40 l)

none

Clumps well and doesn’t create much dust.

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20 l (ca. 9 kg)

Almost dust-free but clumping is mediocre

I previously used cat litter from Lidl and wanted a low-dust option. I'm very happy with this cat litter because it's quite low in dust and absorbs odours well. However, I'm unsure about the quality of its clumping. It does form clumps, but the pee clumps break apart when I try to clean the litter box. The pee stays fairly wet, which is annoying because it leaves small bits of litter behind that already contain pee. As a result, the litter needs to be replaced more often.

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Cat litter

The litter is fantastic, really efficient, clumps instantly, doesn’t get all sticky, and the bottom of the tray stays clean. I’ll only be ordering this one from now on.

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20 L (environ 8,6 kg)

Excellent litter

The absorption and deodorising performance are remarkable.

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20 L (ca. 9 kg)

It's not the same product anymore.

We’ve been using this cat litter for years. Now it doesn’t clump like it should anymore and the litter smells worse.

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20 L (ca. 9 kg)

Good

Pros: eco-friendly, easy to remove Cons: smells damp and like sawdust if not changed right away

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10 l (aprox. 4,3 kg)

It's the best litter

Natural, clumps really well and doesn't smell bad or release dust.

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The best value for money

It's cheap, does its job, and is easy to get rid of.

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40 l (aprox. 17,2 kg)

The best

Our favourite: it lasts a long time, doesn’t leave dust everywhere (like the stone one), clumps well... Negatives: it sticks quite a bit—leaves marks and it’s a bit pricey.

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5 l (ca. 2,1 kg)

Very dissatisfied, used to be better, doesn't clump properly.

The first ones we bought directly at Fressnapf were of higher quality.

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17,2  kg (ca. 40 l)

Very good cat litter

Great cat litter, the cats are happy, it clumps nicely and smells like wood. The pieces used to be a bit bigger, so now they spread it around the flat more, but it's still good and much better than the original bentonite one.

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20 L (ca. 9 kg)

Excellent!

I've been using this litter since 2011 and it allows me to avoid bad smells in the house because I can flush it down the toilet. It's odourless so it doesn't bother me, and it doesn't contain any toxic substances for my pets. Finally, it's clumping and absorbent.

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