Nature's Earth Feline Pine Scoop Cat Litter Review

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(More customer reviews)I loved, loved, LOVED this product when I first started using it, but I'm now researching other brands. I'll list my pros and cons and let you be the judge. First the background: I have two indoor cats for the first time in my life. I've always had indoor/outdoor cats. I've also used regular (non-clumping) clay litter for years as that is what my older cats preferred. I decided to add a box with clumping litter after months of constantly hauling large bags of the clay litter to keep up with two indoor cats. Feline Pine Scoop was my first try.
Pros
- Awesome odor control. For weeks after first filling the box, the whole room smelled like nice fresh pine. (This would obviously be a "con" for someone who doesn't like a pine smell. :-) ) The pine smell faded, but the odor control remains excellent.
- I put a new box filled with this litter next to the old, non-clumping litter box, and the cats started using it the very first night. They still use both about equally.
- It is supposedly more environmentally friendly than clay. The litter is made of biodegradable pine; however, putting it in a plastic bag before putting it into a landfill would pretty much negate any biodegradable properties of the product! Also, the company says pine is more renewable than clay, but I can't comment on the accuracy of that.
- No dust!!
Cons
- The clumps are somewhat fragile. Maybe it's my amateur technique, but small parts break off when I'm shaking the scoop to separate the clump from the clean litter. (And, of course, if you hit a clump the wrong way in the process of scooping, it breaks apart easily.) The strong deodorant properties of this litter; however, nullify this as a big problem for me.
- Here is my main "con," and over the course of time it has become bigger and bigger. The small grains or flakes (or whatever one would call the smallest unit of manufactured pine litter) are very fine and lightweight; thus they track all over the house. The litter box is in a carpeted spare bedroom. The cats have to cover several inches of a very effective litter mat (when they don't jump over it) and several feet of carpet before they hit wood floors. Remnants of this litter end up all over. It has to be swept up from the wood floors daily, and it's getting to be a pain.
Sadly, it's this last "con" that has me researching other clumping litters. I love this litter otherwise, and I may come back to it. But for now, I'm on the hunt for a dust-free, deodorant, NON-TRACKING alternative.

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Feline Pine Scoop was designed with both you and your feline companions in mind. For you, we offer a litter that clumps safely and destroys odors. How do we accomplish such a task? Our product is made from pure southern yellow pine that naturally neutralizes litter box odor, instead of trying to mask it with a chemical fragrance like other clumping litters. And with the power of all-natural guar, waste is easily scooped, so cleanup's a snap and the box stays dry.

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