20 Best Cat Litter For Indoor Cats (2022 Updated)

I started out using clay litters for my two cats but found they were so heavy, sticky, and hard to clean so I switched to crystal litters and tried multiple brands but all of them irritated my nose and throat with the silica dust so I knew I had to find something else.

After some research it sounded like a natural litter would be ideal for me but I was hesitant because in my past experience natural litters were crumbly, messy, and/or had weird odors to them. Once I found this litter and saw it was endorsed by Jackson Galaxy I decided to give it a try since the Cat Daddy has never steered me wrong.

Well, once again he was spot on and Sustainably Yours lives up to the hype. It has many pros and only a few cons in my experience which I have listed below. Pros: – Soft sand-like texture that is gentle on my boys’ paws – Zero dust (Seriously, there is no dust at all!) – Fast-acting clumping action that forms tight and solid clumps – Does not stick to the litter box, very easy to scoop/clean – No fragrances or odors, great for people and/or kitties with sensitivities – Made with sustainable materials Cons: – Odor control could be better.

It seems to do well with urine odors but did not control fecal odors well (although to be fair my boys tend to have smellier than average BMs). This was easily remedied by some Litter Box Odor Eliminator powder and now I don’t smell a thing.

– Tracks easily (not a big deal for me personally and honestly what litter doesn’t track to some degree) – Because of the small granule size the bags don’t fill up as much of the litter box as an equivalent sized larger-grained litter.

(i. e. Normally one 13 lb. bag will fill my litter box up to my preferred depth of 3-4″ but with this litter I needed 1. 5 13 lb. bags to reach the same depth). Overall I am very pleased with this litter and would definitely recommend it to anyone who is looking to make the switch to a natural litter.

I’m 70 and Boomer, my long-haired grey tuxedo, is 16. 5. We lost his sister in May, and for the first time since 1975, I have just one cat in my home. I started wondering how many tons of regular clay litter I’ve carried in my cat time and decided to try a lightweight clumping type.

It’s getting harder to lug the 20# box down the stairs into the garage and dumped into a bag, not to mention getting the used litter lifted up high enough to get into the garbage can. So glad this was one of the first I tried, as it puts my other choice to shame! Clumps like cement and I don’t detect any odor, even after a poop.

I can only give it 4 stars for the following reasons. Being long-haired, when Boomer pees I find that a bit of litter sometimes sticks to his fur in that area, probably because he squats lower at times.

Not much of a problem since my hand can brush it right off. I check his furry paws every so often because he has jumped into the box right after checking the tub for water after I shower. Again, no a real problem.

The big problem is how much it tracks, definitely more than my clay litter. Don’t mind shaking the bathmat or sweeping the bathroom, but I have carpet throughout the house. Probably a plus as the carpet nearest the bathroom catches a good deal, but it still gets into the living room and cat bed on the couch.

Regardless, I’ve ditched the other product (it tracks even worse) and consider this a fantastic find! Won’t even bother to look at other products as Boomer took right to this and seems to prefer it over my other experimental choice.

Also, I scoop into a covered container and empty once a week. The other product left the underside of the top dripping wet with moisture buildup. The Sustainably Yours has never had a moisture buildup on the underside, even at the end of the week.

While the 13 lb. bag of Sustainably Yours is slightly less than double the price of the 40# bag of clay, I find that the bag lasts much longer because I only replace what was scooped as opposed to replacing the whole litter box of clay every week.

I’m extremely happy with this product and so is Boomer, so a little more vacuuming is very worth it!.

Great Litter, I Was Looking For Low Dust Because My One Cat Seems To Have An Allergy To The Dust & Residue From Clay Litter, She Itches, Over Grooms & Her Eyes Run Terribly. The Litter I Had Been Using For Years Changed & Was So Dusty I Could Actually Feel The Grit In My Mouth When I Would Clean The Litter Boxes At Night & My Older Cat Started Pulling Her Fur Out.

Tried A Few Others But Then I Saw An Advertisement For This Litter, I Have Never Been A Fan Of The Corn Litters I Have Tried In The Past, They Were Horribly Messy & Had An Odd Smell To Them That Could Be Over Powering.

I Decided To Try This For A Last Ditch Attempt & Oh My Gosh I Am Glad That I Did! There Is No Dust At All!!! There Is Also No Smell At All And The Clumping Is Awesome(Better Than Any Clay Litter I Have Used) It Does Track, But I Do Not Really Notice It Outside Of The Rooms That My Litter Boxes Are In So I Have Just Gotten In The Habit Of Sweeping It Up A Little More Frequently Throughout The Day(That Doesn’t Really Bother Me) I Do Not Notice Any Smell At All When My 2 Cats Have Peed In It (Poop Is Another Story – No Odor Control There But Most Unscented Litters Don’t Help There) My Older Kitty Girl With The Allergies Has Actually Increased The Amount She Uses The Litter Box So All In All I Am Super Happy With My Choice! It Is Pricey But It Actually Seems To Last Longer Than The Clay Litters I Was Using, It Is Staying Fresher Longer & The Level Of Litter In The Boxes Are Staying Full Longer.

Hope This Review Helps Someone That May Be Wondering.

Wow so I bought this thinking it was fine corn litter. Had tried some corn from mud Bay and the stuff, along with worlds best, NEVER impressed me. So much litter Clung ro the urine, the box was damn neat empty after a week of cleaning it! So when I was at fred meyer I got this, assuming it was much finer corn litter.

Then at mud Bay I chose smarty cat grass litter. When I mixed jt with the abound. I could swear it’s IDENTICAL. WELL after thorough reading the bsg, I now know those are GRASS SEEDS on the bag, nor corn kernels🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️.

No wonder it looks identical. The smarty cat is SLIGHTLY more lightweight. But the abound is chepaer. 8. 5lbs for around $10 vs 5lbs for $10. Literally the BEST LITTER I’ve ever used. Controls smell snd instantly clumps!! No dust either! Zero!!!!.

This cat litter does everything it says it does. For once, truth in advertising. Just a few eency weency issues which probably won’t matter to anyone else but I’ll start with the big one which is that it appears to be made by and sold exclusively by Kroger and is only available at Vitacost and other stores that are owned by Kroger.

Grass seed cat litter can be hard to find so if you run out and Kroger stops selling it then we’re all going to be in trouble. The next item on the list is that it doesn’t specify what type of grass seed it is.

The picture looks like corn kernels but it doesn’t look anything like that. It appears very fine grained like sand. Whatever it is, I sure hope that it’s not viable because I don’t want this sprouting up in the yard/garden/anywhere.

I’m trying to germinate some of it to see what, if anything, comes up but so far nothing has. The only other minor concern that I have is my cats and dog seem to like the taste of it so they’re sampling it a little bit.

Not enough to make them sick but if your pets really want to eat it and you’re not around to discourage that then this might be a problem. A bit on the pricy side but I think it might be lasting longer than clay litter so I highly recommend it.

Rescued 3 kittens, 4-5 wks old. They have diarrhea. Yes, first dose of Strongid has been administered. Been using a Pine product but was a mess in this situation. Wanted unscented and no dust. Just purchased 3 days ago.

This Grass Seed product really clumps and doesn’t stick to their back legs and fur and so so easy to scoop out their tiny messes. We clean their boxes 3-4 times a day and it clumps fast. Can’t attest to clumping stability in litter that isn’t cleaned daily as not used for our family kids yet.

Big Thanks! Already told a friend who rescues also.

My cat and I both love this litter. I have been using it for years and I still have people come to my house so confused as to why the litter box is in my bedroom. because it NEVER smells. I fully change it about every 2 weeks, while keeping it very clean in between daily.

It does track a bit but nothing that a good litter mat won’t stop and just regular sweeping or vacuuming. I’m obsessed with this litter I will never buy another brand. I have tried the tidy cat brand but I have found the vibrant life lasts longer and actually absorbs more.

I’ve even tried the Pretty Litter brand, which was my least favorite because it doesn’t accurately tell pH levels and it tracks like crazy on top of being very expensive. My kitty has UTIs often and with the crystal litter I can spot it instantly because of the clear crystals.

Live by this litter as a kitty mom.

I tried this product with the ScoopFree® Self-Cleaning Litter Box (PetSafe) as a replacement of the Original Scent Blue Crystal Litter that is recommended for that litter box. Quite a mistake! These mini crystals work only for 2 or 3 days and then the bad smell starts propagating in the entire apartment.

After one week, it is impossible to keep using it and my cat completely refuses to use the litter. Among the comments I have read, they said that this product would work great with the Self-Cleaning Litter box, but it didn’t really work.

The blue crystals that come originally with the self-cleaning litter box last for up to one month with only minor smell (after one month) or no smell at all. However, Vibrant Mini Crystals barely reach 3 days; they do not really absorb the smell of my cat’s pee and they become yellow-stained in a few hours.

My review may seem biased because most of my comments are pertaining to the use of these mini crystals with the self-cleaning litter box, but it is not really biased because I am also commenting on the basis of the crystals themselves not being able to absorb/dehydrate cat’s urine.

I never had a similar problem in the past with other silica-based crystals nor with regular, powder cat litter. I am surprised with all the positive reviews I’ve seen for this product but based on my experience, it did not really work for me.

I have a large male cat and he uses two large litter boxes. I bought this litter because of its weight and thought it controls smells better than the clay litter. My cat had no problem using this litter.

Pros 1. the litter is light weight. I can lift the bag with no problem. 2. the fur around his rear end used to get wet with clay litter after he peed but that didn’t happen with this litter. Cons 1. this litter didn’t control the smells very much.

After two weeks of using it, the litter boxes started smell really bad. 2. When I pour new litter into litter boxes, I saw a lot of dust flying up. I had to spray some water to calm it down. I’m still in search of a litter that controls odor and doesn’t need heavy lifting.

This is the worst quality product I have ever had the pleasure of using in any category ever of all time. The urine does NOT clump up whatsoever. It instantly spontaneously combusts and gets mixed right back in.

The fragments of actual litter are so large that they dont filter through the scooper whatsoever. The entire box begins to stink horrifically due to the fact that none of the urine ever comes out. You can only pluck out the turds and they come out raw with no litter granules covering them.

You cant pick get the turds without a half pound of loose litter in the scooper that doesnt filter out so youre basically wasting whatever amount of the product you do scoop up with the turds. This is absolute insanity and whomever developed this has blatantly never owned a cat or put this product to test prior to bringing it into the market.

All of this in addition to the fact that pound for pound you hardly save anything buying this and thats not including wasted product. Ooohhh its natural but you basically have to turd scoop for two or three days and then dump the entire box so wheres the savings?.

We’d tried a wide variety of alternative litters, however, cats’ paws get sores. Plain clay cat litter is recommended by my veterinarian. With Jonny Cat Unsecented, no sores on the paws. However, this cat litter is incredibly dusty.

In the bathroom containing the litter box, dust clings to the walls and ceiling of the bathroom. It settles on every surface. It’s distressing to consider how much of this dust my cats are inhaling every time that they use this litter.

Years ago, I built a screened cylinder with a handle for turning. In went the kitty litter. About 1/3 of the litter was just dust. I don’t recall the brand of cat litter in use at that time. I’ve considered rebuilding the screened cylinder to measure the dust in the Jonny Cat Unscented.

I’m disabled now, and my productive time is precious, and must be used for pressing matters. I dearly wish for a litter product that doesn’t dust. A friend used chicken feed for her cat’s litter box.

Lot’s of corn, which may cause sores on the paws again. I suppose I’ll give it a try.

Jonny Cat is another one of the great inexpensive cat litters that I really like a lot. The Jonny Cat Cat litter that I used was the fragrance free litter. The fragrance free litter is great because it has no added fragrances in the litter whatsoever.

The Jonny Cat fragrance free litter uses natural extracts from vegetables and fruit to control the odors. I also like that it’s a clay litter instead of a clumping litter. The clay completely absorbs all the cat urine and odors along with it.

It keeps my cats litter box clean and fresh without using irritating harmful ingredients. I also like that it’s a dust free litter. A lot of the litters all have that dust and fragrance flying into my face that really bothers me.

I don’t get that with this cat litter. As long as you regularly change your cat litter, this is a great litter to use. I really appreciate this cat litter because it doesn’t harm me, my cat, or the environment, because it isn’t made from any harmful artificial ingredients.

Moisture Absorption The clay in this cat litter completely absorbs all the moisture and odor from the litter box. I never find my cats box to be wet, messy, or smelly either. This litter works extremely well.

Ease of Cleaning It’s easy to clean, but because it’s a clay non clumping litter the litter needs to be thrown out and cleaned more often. I usually end up dumping out all the litter when I need to clean it and start fresh.

Odor Control The Jonny Cat litter that I used is a fragrance free cat litter, and it uses vegetable and fruit extracts to get rid of all the odors. The clay in the litter also keeps the odors away as well.

Fragrances in cat litters usually makes my cat sneeze, but this litter doesn’t. Ease of Use This litter is really easy to use because it doesn’t have any dust in it, which makes it easier and nicer to pour into my cats litter box, and it doesn’t track and dusty paw prints out of the box either.

As long as I have had kitties, I have used tidy cats litter. Previously I was using the glade instant action, which I loved, but when it was unavailable on instacart they delivered this lightweight kind instead i love it even more.

They both smell nice, but the lightweight litter is SO much easier to scoop! The other thing I like about it, is the bits of litter are small so they don’t really get stuck between my kitty’s toes if they (briefly) do, it isn’t going to hurt them or irritate them.

I’ve also noticed less litter is being tracked outside of the box. My only complaint is the rising price. not long ago I was paying $14/35lbs. now it’s just under $20. #tidycats #litter #purina.

Urine clumps but stays soaking wet forever, which means it STINKS! Same with solid waste. Just sits under litter and remains wet & smelly. Scooping every single day didn’t fix how terrible the litter smelled after first use.

My cats stopped using their box completely and started going on the floor. Had to bleach the boxes and buy different brand of litter for the 1st time in 40 years because I can’t find regular 24/7 clumping anymore (way better).

This is our go-to kitty litter. After years of using one of the natural (corn based) litters with our previous cats, we found our youngest/current cat apparently has allergies to corn. I tried several different brands and styles before seeing that this Tidy Cats Lightweight doesn’t seem to bother him.

I prefer the lightweight version just because it’s, well, light to carry and handle. lol This clumps well. I wouldn’t say the clumps are rock hard but they stay together while cleaning the litter box.

We only have one cat now but even when we had two this litter kept up with odor. I usually scoop the clumps out each evening but even if there I days I don’t get to it, odor is minimal. I will stick with this litter as long as I can.

With the pandemic it’s sometimes been hard to find this in stock at my local store, and I dread those days.