TUFT + PAW Really Great Cat Litter by

I know cat litter is a personal preference, but I don't know how anyone could rate this less than 5 stars. I have had a multi-cat household for 30 years, and I have fussy Himalayan cats. With my last bunch, I used the Breeze system, which I initially thought was ingenious -- I loved that it was low-tracking, and even lower on dust. My older cats died a few years ago, and after a short breather, I got some new kitties. I tried and kept them on the Breeze system for about a year and a half, and neither of them seemed to like it. In fact, one of my girls developed a terrible habit of peeing outside the box but pooping inside. It wasn't until I switched to this litter that she began to pee inside the box again. This littler is much more environmentally friendly, hides odors, and clumps beautifully. It doesn't track like other clumping litters and has almost no dust. While my cats have not told me in words that they prefer it, they sure do ACT like they love it. Yes, it's expensive, but it's worth every penny to me.

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.

I love this litter! We started using it for travel as it's flushable and easier than bringing bags on trips but it's now our full time litter. It clumps very fast and the clumps are solid enough that they don't break up into little pieces when agitated like clay litter can. There's no perceptible dust and the tracking is minimal, even with my long haired cat! I don't think my cat loves the texture, when we were still using clay he would choose the clay box nearly every time. He doesn't reject this litter though, we haven't had any issues with accidents since we've been using it full time. It doesn't seem to irritate his paws and his litter box behavior hasn't changed at all. I do think it's expensive, especially because you really need to purchase two bags at a time if you have an XL box. I have a 24" stainless steel box for my ragdoll and while one bag fills it, it does need to be topped off at least once a week so we're going through more like 1.5 bags every 30 days. It also requires a scoop with large slots, I use a speed sifter. The scoop that came with my box does work, but it requires a lot of agitation to separate the clumps from the pellets and I don't find that this litter is the best for poop odor control. I don't smell urine at all however. TLDR; this is my favorite litter but there's some compromise.

Over the years we've tried them all, to include many expensive automatic box contraptions and pee pad drainage systems, but this litter in a plain ol' litter box is by far the best solution. My husband saw an ad on Facebook to try it out for free, and given our recent litter box frustrations, we thought - "Hmmm tofu? Sure, why not." - Our three cats took to it right away. We were also pleasantly surprised to see [and smell] that they all now bury their poo. So, I guess they quite enjoy doing their business in this litter as well. Selfishly though - it's great at: smell control to a point of almost nothingness, keeping the tracking down to nearly nonexistent, and clumping; making 1&2 waste disposal extremely easy. Our latest litter saga was with the purple-labelled pine pellet clumping kind. It was good, even though frustrating at times and a big time suck looking back, but given our time in testing litters over the years, we believed we had settled on the best one our money could buy. Then we tried Tuft+Paw, and discovered we were absolutely incorrect. Unlike clumping pine pellets, Tuft+Paw absorbs the urine immediately to form a clumped ball instead of disintegrating into a fine wet dust that takes time to harden. If the pine has a chance to harden, it's fine, no harm, no foul. But, this became a huge problem after we adopted our third cat. Even with multiple boxes they would still choose to share and would kick up each others messes before this drying process could happen. Tracking became a problem, smell became a problem, and contaminated unused litter pellets became a problem. To keep our wallets from hemorrhaging, we ended up having to sift the dust from the "clumping" litter every few days just to keep these problems at bay. We almost switched back to the regular farm bedding kind because we were basically dealing with the same issues that litter presents, but paying three times as much. But, thankfully, this litter came into our lives to save the day. Since switching, all of these problems seemingly vanished overnight. It now takes us no more than 3 mins per box each day to keep them tidy. Unlike clumping pine, one bag of Tuft+Paw lasts awhile because the unused pellets are not contaminated, so one just needs to replenish the pellets and do full box change when it starts to get a stinky [which after 15 days hasn't happened yet, and at this rate even with 3 cats, will probably exceed a month]. In this and on top of the aforementioned features and benefits of this litter, the price tag absolutely makes sense. We also signed up for the subscription service on their website, which knocks the price down quite a bit as well. If you are thinking about trying it because you like a clean house, and value your time, the health of your pets, and the environment, do it! I really can't recommend this litter enough!

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!