Northeastern Products Cedarific Natural Cedar Chips Cat Litter, 50 Liter Bag

Our cats are picky. This lightweight, fresh scent, all natural litter is our favorite. Inexpensive, easy to use, absorbent.

This is very good cat litter. No dust or bad smell.

This is simply the best kitty litter there is. Zero dust, zero chemical smell, cats like it. It doesn't clump but the stuff that clumps is bad for your kitties, especially if they're declawed. This gives them the closest feeling to being outside, which you should always be aiming for. If you do prefer clumping, this really isn't difficult to learn how to scoop. What I do is use a kitchen serving spoon (it does not go back in the kitchen anymore!) lightly scrape the top layer and scoop poop with it into a sifting kitty litter scoop held in my other hand. Once I've gotten all the poop out of the top layers, which doesn't mess up the new kitty litter, the urine part is at the bottom. So push the good top layer to one side and use the spoon to spoon out the heavy wet layer. Some people just mix it all up by sifting out the poop but I've found that my way makes it last a lot longer. The15 pound bag lasts 2 months for my three raw fed cats (raw fed animals "go" less than other animals)UPDATE 6/3/16I tried wood pellets because a 40lb bag was $9 and I heard a lot of animal shelters use it so it must be cost effective. The cats were fine with it but I don't like that I can't see the poop. You just dump out the whole pan at the end of the week. It's gross but I find the sorting process important to make sure my kitties aren't sick. It controlled odor fantasticly. However, the 40 Lb bag barely lasted 1 month and that's only because I put it on top of the Cedarific and then for the second fill I only had enough for three boxes, not all four. Even though Cedarific seems pricey, it does last a long time and is cost effective. (Picture shows three but I added a fourth box bc should have one more box than #of cats)

I've done it!!! I've finally figured out the magic formula for an odorless, easy to maintain litter box!However, before I divulge my magic formula, I must launch into an intro:First of all, I have four cats, 2 of them are large males whose life purposes are to poop and pee, apparently. We used to have a hooded litter box. We progressed from using regular clumping litter to using non-clumping then we switched to World's Best Cat Litter. Cost-wise, a similar brand called Exquisicat was better for us. After a while though, I noticed that the corn litter would start getting this smell. I can only describe it as a "dirty barnyard" stench. It didn't matter how many times we scooped in a day, after a few days, the corn litter would adopt that smell.About three weeks ago, I finally threw up my hands and told myself that I would go on the hunt for the perfect way to cure this litterbox problem. My den smelled like a barn, scooping took forever and it was making me unhappy. I spent hours poring over the reviews on Amazon. I made a purchase of three items totalling almost a hundred dollars! But you know what? My den no longer smells bad, the kitties are happy and it takes less than three minutes to clean out the litterbox.First, I purchased this litter: Swheat Scoop Multi Cat Natural Wheat Cat Litter, 25 Pound Bag Now, I would like to note that the formula I concocted involved mixing this litter with the wheat litter: These two together provide major odor control! I think this cedar litter is actually key to the odor control because I can really tell a difference.I simply placed about two to three inches of the wheat litter in the OmegaPaw litter box Omega Paw Self-Cleaning Litter Box, Large, Green and Beige with about two to three cups of the cedar litter. The Omega Paw is awesome too! I just roll it then the clumps end up in this receptacle that I simply dump into the toilet and flush away!

After basically trying every kind of litter under the sun, especially every "natural" litter, I thought I couldn't do any better than Feline Pine/pine pellet litter. But I recently discovered the existence of Cedarific, so I gave it a try. It's close, but right now, I'm leaning toward Cedarific.-------------------------------ACCEPTANCE-------------------------------I'm lucky to have cats who aren't finicky about litter. They even accepted Feline Pine straight away when I started using it without needing any kind of transition period. But paws down, they prefer the texture of Cedarific. When I first got it, I only had one box that needed the litter replaced. The cats used the Cedarific box almost exclusively from that moment on. The Feline Pine box has yet to need changing, weeks later, because they don't use it much anymore.-------------------------------ODOR-------------------------------Feline Pine handles urine odor far better than any other litter I've tried, but it does zero to mask feces odor, and it stinks up the house when one of the cats poops. But Cedarific, while it's not any better than average with urine odor, does an incredible job masking feces odor--mostly because the texture makes it easy for the cats to bury it, and it dries out the feces more quickly.As for the scent of the litter, Feline Pine is inoffensive and not perfumed at all, which is very important to me--perfumey litter is a dealbreaker. Cedarific smells actively great, though (if you like the smell of cedar, which I do), without smelling too strong.-------------------------------TRACKING-------------------------------Cedarific tracks all over the place. Feline Pine has some minor tracking issues as the pellets start to break down, but Cedarific practically flies out of the box every time the cats step in and out. The texture is light, but because it's like tiny chips, it's very easy to vacuum up, but you have to vacuum it up constantly.-------------------------------DUST-------------------------------Both Cedarific and Feline Pine are excellent in the dust department with almost zero dust, even when pouring litter in/out of the box.-------------------------------COST-------------------------------Both Feline Pine and Cedarific are cheaper than most other "natural" litters, but they're still more expensive than mainstream clay litters. I haven't finished out the Cedarific, but from how it's going, it looks like it will end up being cheaper than Feline Pine. If I had easy access to a feed store that sells pine pellet bedding cheap, I might consider switching to that, but for now, Cedarific seems a better deal than any pine pellet litter brands.-------------------------------CLEANING/SCOOPING-------------------------------Cedarific has to be scooped more often than Feline Pine. I scoop it at least once daily, maybe twice. When I first got it, I just scooped out the solids and then gave the remaining litter a stir as indicated by other reviewers. But doing that, the litter lasted less than a week before getting stinky. So I changed tactics and hit on a trick to it that helps keep it fresher longer. I use the scoop to kind of push aside the litter a little at a time, scooping out any solids as I encounter them, until I hit urine-soiled litter (easy to see because it looks obviously dark and wet). I carefully scoop out just the soiled bits (don't have to be exact--just get most of it), Once I've worked through the litter carefully like this and gotten out the majority of the soiled litter, I give it a vigorous stir to help any remaining bits of wet litter dry out faster, and then I top up with fresh, clean litter. This has kept the box smelling fresh for about 2 weeks. It's less of a pain than it sounds, and it beats sifting the litter constantly, as I had to do with Feline Pine. Note that I prefer NON-clumping litters because I find clumping litter a pain when you have to change the box, and I find that the clumping never actually decreases the extent to which urine odor builds up anyway, especially with clay litters.As for other aspects of cleaning, I found that, with Feline Pine, the cats would very occasionally end up with poo on their paws, especially if they were having soft stools or diarrhea because the pellets make it harder to bury feces, and this has been an almost nonexistent problem with Cedarific.-------------------------------UPDATE-------------------------------I've been using this product for almost a year now, and I still really like it. I find that, like Feline Pine, the manufacturer seems to vary its wood/sawdust sources. The texture of the product and the way it smells can change quite a bit from order to order. It usually doesn't make a difference to how it performs, but I do get disappointed when I get a batch that doesn't smell as strongly of cedar, and once I got a batch that was so coarse that the urine wouldn't get absorbed well and it resulted in a very stinky box very quickly. Most of the time, it's been fine.