Review: Fresh Step Cat Litter

I have shared my life with two cats for many years. Living in a small house where the litter box has no place to go too far off the beaten path, keeping the cat box clean as a whistle sometimes seems like a never ending chore. The last thing anyone wants is for guests to show up and find that the house "smells like cat" or even worse - smells like cat urine and feces! Talk about embarrassing!

When you go to the store, there are so many choices - crystals, clumping, non-clumping, multi-cat, recycled, big buckets, little bags, the choices go on and on and the prices vary a lot too. I've tried a lot of different litters over the year. The gravel, the clumping, stuff like "Tidy Cat Multiple Cat" all hoping that each litter would be the miracle answer - something that would make the litterbox not smell so bad so quickly, not track litter all over the house, not be so dusty that it made me sneeze non-stop, AND that the cats would still be willing to use.

The last litter I was using was the Sam's Club brand litter - it came in a 35 pound pail, clumped nicely, didn't bother my allergies, didn't track all over the house, and made the litterbox fairly simple to clean. It didn't , however, do much for the smell. Every now and then, open the door to the room where the cat litter box is after a warm night and the smell was overwhelming. It was getting to the point where once the weather got hot, the litterbox needed to be cleaned twice a day to try to keep the "Yes, we most definitely have cats" smell from penetrating the house. It was time for a change.

The next time we went to Sam's Club, we noticed they offered 40 lb buckets of Fresh Step Scoopable Litter. One of the sites online that I frequent has given this litter rave reviews and I figured that if she had success with it with her SIX cats, I should try it out for my two.

Fresh Step Scoopable Litter

Credit: The Clorox Pet Product Company

Copyright: The Clorox Pet Product Company