What's your favorite cat litter?  

@arindritakanrar Very good point. We'll look into including this as we expand into more international review content.

@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).

@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?

@mcrustawildernesscat-com

I think my early aversion to wood pellet litter was that it usually had
some kind of intense smell created more for the human than the cat -
pine was usually the case, so I never bought it.

Up to a couple of weeks ago, I was mixing a thin bottom layer of
what we had left of "Yesterday's News" with OKO on top and the
scatter was always a small amount of YN and practically none from the OKO.

Since we use large clear Sterilite boxes (with a "U"-shape cut-out entrance),
the real test was when we had to isolate one cat for two weeks and she had her own potty - which was simply a low litter tray on the floor. Using OKO in that was no problem - a tiny bit more scatter: maybe a dozen little pellets/day immediately around it, but nothing that you couldn't hold in the palm of one hand.

We have a bigger orange kitty with lots of fuzziness in and around his toes,
so he's another good gauge of tracking and, yup, just no problem: a stray
pellet or two in other areas of the house ... but in these cases it has to be
the "Less Mess" version because they're larger pellets. As to how everyone's
kitty will react to larger pellets, I can't say, but they can be slowly added to
probably anyone's current litter to get them used to it.

https://www.greatpetcare.com/pet-cleaning/6-best-wood-pellet-cat-litters/

Tomorrow is house-cleaning again and I'm so happy that it doesn't look like
I'll have to completely clean the boxes again - this will now be 2 weeks
when it used to be a weekly dump and soap scrub on the back patio.

One of the boxes after two weeks:

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.