Top 7 Best Natural Cat Litters (We Tried Them All)

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0:00 Introduction
0:34 Arm & Hammer Feline Pine
1:59 Pioneer Pet Smart Cat All Natural Clumping Litter
3:45 Okocat Super Soft Clumping Wood Litter
5:20 Arm & Hammer Naturals Clumping Litter
7:10 World’s Best Cat Litter Multi-Cat Litter
8:57 Naturally Fresh Multi-Cat Natural Litter
10:19 sWheat Scoop Clumping Cat Litter
11:29 Summary and Comparison

[XXx-lfdr]

I believe with the pine, you would need a sifting litter box

[heidiw]

The equine pine liter they sell for horses is MUCH cheaper than that "Feline Pine" you're reviewing. It's $5 for a 40 pound bag at Tactor Supply and lasts a long time. You HAVE TO use it with a sifting litter pan, which you did not do in this video which is probably why your experience was not in line with mine. I purchased an Arm & Hammer sifting liter box and added/glued "feet" to the bottom of the sifting box to raise it up. I then use urine pads/puppy pads in the bottom and it will soak up excess urine as the dissolved pine liter falls to cover it. When you use it correctly, the urine will make the pine expand and it falls to the bottom of the tray leaving just solid waste that I scoop into my liter genie. The smell in my home is much better using this pine. It smells like a saw mill in the liter room and the cats LOVE it.

[VivPhotography]

I don't think the pine pellets are meant to be scoope-able, so giving it a low review doesn't seem fair.

[MoKi]

This research is amazing! Thank you for all the hard work that went into this. Every cat owner must watch this!

[lizzieb]

Great reviews! I’ve used ALL of them… I have 4 cats and there is certainly a learning curve with litter. Worlds Best used to be my solid go-to favorite. However, lately it’s quite dusty. I’m now using almost exclusively Naturally Fresh. It does look like large coffee grounds - but it does the job… all cats use it with no objection.. and the odor control is very good. I do scoop the 3 litter boxes 3 times a day - so odor typically is no issue as I keep the boxes pretty “clean”. I really appreciate your insight … thank you 😊

[mjwestcoll]

Buy off brand cheap boxes of baking soda. Add half a box to each box after cleaning it. Or add a little here and there after scooping it out daily. Can add that to any litter of your choice. Gets rid of odors

[JChristelle]

Just a comment about sWheat Litter: Our lovely craftsman-style house was built in the 1920s and we usually have to trap a few mice each spring (unless one of our four cats gets them first, which I don't really want to happen). I tried sWheat Litter several years ago. Our litter boxes are in the laundry room which is by the back door. When I used sWheat litter, I started finding mouse droppings around the boxes, which surprised me because you'd think that the smell of cat urine would deter mice. Anyway, I figured out that the mice were attracted by the litter, which they were eating. So if you live out in the country or have an older house, I would not recommend sWheat litter only for the reason that it attracted mice when I used it.

[joannjohnstone]

I mix the walnut litter with the grass litter to soften it up a bit. The combination of heavy and light keeps the dust to a minimum.

[josel.martinez]

It’d be great if all the companies used non-plastic packaging. For instance maybe the walnut company can make their packaging out of walnut fiber? 🤷🏽

[seenso]

I got a bag of the Arm&Hammer pine pellets and I swear the pellets had little gnats/bug eggs in it bcuz I kept seeing little flying buggers around the litter box. They went away once I switched litters so I’m convinced it’s the pine pellets.

[HeronCoyote]

I’ve been using equine pine pellets, from Tractor Supply (or any store that sells to farmers, etc), for two years. It’s $6 for a 40 lb bag. You could use a regular litter pan (without a bag), or a sifting pan set up (Arm and Hammer makes the most readily available one). Pee turns the pellets into sawdust, which, when you shake the pans, or move the whole pellets around, will fall through the holes to the pan below. Do not use a bag, unless you use one in the bottom pan.

Edit: It is now Nov 2022. My cat decided he has delicate paws. So out with the pine pellets ☹️. After much experimenting, I found something we both agree on. PetCo makes SoFresh Grass Seed litter (no scent). It clumps beautifully, hides odors, and smells woodsy! The only negative is, of course, the cost: $18 for a 10 lb bag, which lasts about 15 days.

[lgunton]

I just recently started using the walnut shell and I agree it smells better and masks orders better than arm and hammer.

[imabeliever]

Remember with these natural litters there is a likelihood that those made of wood and corn will attract bugs such as ants. Corn is food for bugs. Ants and other bugs love wood and feces. Your cat or dog might eat the corn as well. If the A&H litter has a strong baking soda smell, that might deter bugs and your pets from eating it. Also on the Feline Pine, I so wanted that to work out for me, with the Tidy Cat Breeze box, but it attracted ants who wanted to make it their personal farm, and one of my two cats refused to use it probably due to the size of the pellets. She is a small cat. Very helpful reviews. I have also seen not great reviews of the natural walnut litter.

[MadTube]

the smell of world's best cat litter is literally just corn. I was wary of getting it at first because everyone said it smelled weird but it literally is just what dried corn smells like. I now exclusively use this litter. I mix the larger antitracking orange bag with the finer multicat red bag.

[SonshineLady]

I've been owned by cats for over 30 years and have tried sooo many different cat litters. During the time of my first cat the first urine-clumping litter (to my knowledge) was introduced. It was Scoop Away; I saw it demonstrated at a cat show and fell in love with it. I used it exclusively until it disappeared from the shelves with many different "clumping litters" appearing. After trying so many, and being disappointed by them, I tried World's Best Cat Litter and stayed with it until I was introduced to the video by the woman who had the idea to combine parts of the Breeze box with a large litter box and used kiln-fired pine pellets.

I had two cats at the time - my dainty 15 year old calico and a 14-lb. rescue cat. The new cat had a LOT of urine, based on his size and the calico was using the litter box frequently so their respective boxes got a work out. Also, the larger cat was a digger and slung about half the litter in his box on the floor, plus the tracking. The pine litter system was a God-send. As long as I emptied the urine dust regularly there was no odor, very few litter pellets on the floor, and no tracking. The elder, very thin calico with her little feet jumped into her box, did her business and jumped out so I went in and moved the pellets around so the sawdust would move to the bottom pan. I've since lost my calico.

Due to an unforeseen issue, I had to go back to the clumping litters and that's when I tried all the ones recommended online and by friends but finally went back to World's Best Cat Litter. Since my cat makes a lot of urine and the smell was overwhelming as I transferred the clumps to the Litter Genie, I now put a layer of baking soda over the remaining litter after cleaning, then a layer of the litter, and top it off with more baking soda on the top which I gently swirl into the litter with the scooper. That absorbed and eliminated the odor.

I now plan to return to the pine litter since I saw the Arm and Hammer sifting system that has larger holes in the sifter and less "moving parts" of the Breeze system. Looking forward to going back to it!!

[taylormore]

I recommend removing the bag from your litter box, cats don’t like it because it stops them from digging

[cindyvan]

Alot of cats won't use litter with a strong fragrance, it bothers their little noses.

[elizabethann]

Great video! I can’t stand clay litter so I’m always up for trying a new natural litter. I’ve used all of these and the only one I didn’t like was the Arm & Hammer Naturals clumping litter because it is very heavily scented. I’ve heard scented litters are bad for cats and there are so many good unscented options out there. Even World’s Best’s scented varieties would be a better choice if you want something scented, as they tend to be so lightly scented you barely notice the scent at all.

[darcyreid]

Thank you for all this amazing information, very enlightening. Do you find that the walnut-based litter dust gets all over the place and stains certain services?

[NYCisland]

Your negative comments for the pine litter is because you need a special scooper (wider slots) and a special litter box with holes to let the sawdust fall through. If you have that setup, it's extremely easy to clean, way better than traditional litter. One big problem is can be hard for many cats to get used to it because it's not the feel they're used to. Cats naturally like digging into a soft sandy material and this is the opposite. It's virtually no dust which is far better than any other litter. All those that say low/no dust are lying as they're all dusty.