Cat Litter (yet another neverending search)

I've tried all kinds of cat litter. I started out with arm & hammer, which was ok but a bit coarse and tends to get used up quickly. I then tried swheat scoop, a wheat based litter. I liked this stuff a lot, until months later I discovered a film of dust around all of my furniture. Next I tried feline pine. I couldn't get used to litter that was not clumping, so I discarded that one quickly. I tried everclean per maternal recommendation. It was ok but not as good as arm & hammer at covering odor. Next in line was world's best. This stuff is actually quite good, except for a couple of things: it smells like corn pancakes, and after a while it causes cat footprints. I discovered the former when I ordered the corn pancakes at El Dorado. It was not a fun experience.

I went back to Arm & Hammer. Now keep in mind, a lot of the time it makes no difference at all what littler I use, because Audrey does not really get how to bury things. She will do her stuff in the litter box, and then reach outside the litterbox to bury it. She does this in every shape and size of litterbox every once in a while.

But just recently I discovered that nature's miracle has a litter. For those of you playing catch-up, nature's miracle makes excellent litter treatment and even better pet stain cleaner. Unfortunately I couldn't find it anywhere locally, and it was $8 per bag to ship it. Madcat to the rescue! They ordered 2 bags for me.

I did a full replacement of litter in the living room. This new stuff comes in 10lb bags and costs about $1.50 per lb. This is about 40% more than world's best, 50% more than swheat scoop, and almost 200% more than arm & hammer. Still, it might be worth it. It looks promising, as the grains are really small, the material is all natural, and it includes some odor controlling enzymes. The cats were immediately curious about the new litter. Only a few hours later, audrey managed to not bury her stuff again.

And by the way, this litter smells wonderful. I thought about eating it. It smells kind of like bananas and pine. Intoxicating. The apartment smelled great between that and my new shaving cream, called "Eton College".