I have tried every cat litter out there. All of them are dusty with the exception of Pidan Tofu litter. I have yet to try the other Tofu cat litters, but I will. I have six boy cats, all kickers. 100% no dust and minimal tracking. Tofu litter is the best I have found on all fronts except for….price. Odor control, dust and tracking are 10/10, but on price it gets dinged. It does last a long time so that helps. If I had 3 cats or less I would use nothing else.
I also have Oko original at home and it’s horrible in my opinion. One of the dustiest litters out there. I even returned a box of it.
Right now I have the Pidan tofu mixed with the Worlds best “low tracking” and it seems a good compromise between that and 100% tofu.
I have dug as deep as trying to manufacture my own Tofu litter…maybe one day.
I wholeheartedly recommend Pidan.
help, the dust is driving me NUTS!
i've used nature's miracle for 18 years with my cat mousie, and never had SO MUCH dust. it's coating the litter box, it's coating the litter genie, it's coating my sinuses. (i can tell, because in the morning, if i hack up some spit, it tastes like french fries.) even though i've been using a dust mask when cleaning the litter box -- i dont know how my cat shaanti can stand it. (however, she does not cough or sneeze.)
i've tried world's best -- same.
i tried grass seed -- same (with bonus grassy taste).
i tried the paper pellets... shaanti didn't like those, and i wasn't too thrilled, either. the different cleaning method was okay, but the odor was not contained for even half as long as it said it should be.
i don't want clay litter; i'm against it.
i don't want wood pellet litter. (i tried that ages ago with mousie, and A: wood pellets DO track and boy do you know it when you step on one and B: that litter did cause me to cough back then.)
IS there any natural/biodegradable/sustainable cat litter that really doesn't have dust? and is good? maybe paper crumbles instead of pellets?
or is there something wrong with my litter box? it's black plastic (by nature's miracle) -- does it have some kind of static charge or something??? i just don't understand all this dust when i never had anything like this before.
Wanted to show tracking after an overnight with three cats.
Also found two pellets in the hall just outside this room.
@rodstasick Nice! Have you used any other wood pellet litter before? Do you think this Okocat Less Mess litter tracks/scatters less than other similar products?
@jakedouglas Funny, for me, that this topic is coming up today, because I was going to update after cleaning house today. This is the first week after we finished all of the last batch of “Yesterday’s News” and the first week where we’ve used nothing but the Okocat “Less Mess” and we are still amazed by the reduction of dust and scatter all over the house. It is easily 95% better than what we thought was the best before (Y.N.) and we’re both astounded and very grateful that we will find, at most, 4 to 6 little pellets/day in the house instead of having to go thru with a dry mop a couple times a day.
The Okokat “Original” uses small crushed pellets, so that may be why you were getting excess dust.
Again, the “Less Mess” version are full pellets and they’ve been really wonderful. Usually, I have to completely empty the big litter boxes every Wednesday, but with this stuff, I only have to keep to my regular daily scooping and just top it off when needed. I’m anticipating that I will be doing a complete box cleaning once a month instead of weekly. It’s been an enormous difference for us. We’ve even removed those looped scatter pads that you put at the entrance to the box and they’re now in the garbage outside. We have nothing at the entrance anymore and it’s not a problem - maybe a pellet or two from the three cats.
I have a small bag of tofu litter from a company called “Frisco” that’s been sitting in the closet for months because I’ve been in the experiment stage of testing litter and, yes, it was hella expensive.
Maybe I’ll lightly integrate it into the Oko just to get rid of it (either that, or I may donate it since it hasn’t been opened yet).
@jakedouglas Tofu litter is really interesting—thanks for sharing your experience!