Boxie Probiotic Clumping Cat Litter 40+ Day Odor Control Dust Free 16 lb

TLDR: This is my new fave litter and my search is over. Excellent clumping, odour control, and easy to scoop by hand and works well with the Litter Robot (I have the LR4). Minimal dust such that it doesn’t cloud up when pouring and have had zero asthma issues with it (though I do have an air filter in my litter cabinet just to be safe as my cat has asthma too). Wasn’t expecting it to be as good as it is! I have asthma and a lot of allergies to stuff like tree nuts and coconut and corn and soy, so natural litters have been off the table for the most part. I’ve tried lots of clay litters and the dust and tracking always makes me steer away from them again. Even though I have an air filter installed near the litterbox, the dust is usually always an issue in their fur or on the floor. Thankfully, this stuff isn’t really dusty. No cloud when pouring it out, no bits stuck to their feet or fur. It tracks less than a lot of other clay litters I’ve tried, especially compared to the lightweight ones, but if you have an open system that isn’t in an enclosed cabinet like mine is, you may want to invest in a litter mat that is more of a deep pile carpet type to try and mitigate some of the tracking. I think the fact that I have two mats and my litter box is in an enclosed space helps keep most of the tracking inside the cabinet and near the box. It does track a bit, but most of it is stuck to the two mats I have by their box as opposed to dusty paw prints all over my couch or stuck to their toe tufts (I have a longhair with fluffy paws). Honestly I think this may be my Goldilocks litter and the one I stick with and I was not expecting that at all. The cats definitely prefer this litter’s texture on their paws compared to the natural litters I used that are pelleted, and their toe beans are less dry and cracked as well. Some clay litters feel sharp or pokey and I can tell when my cats don’t like the texture of a litter because they stop burying their business as thoroughly. They do not have that issue with this stuff. This stuff clumps super tightly and quickly, and cleaning it by hand takes litter-ally ¼ of the time it does to sift tofu or other natural litters. The grains just fall through the scoop and the clumps are very tight and I feel like this litter will last longer than natural ones too. I also haven’t had any issues with any urine clumps sticking to the sides or bottom of the box because of how well this stuff clumps, which makes both scooping and the monthly scrub much easier, and it keeps their feet and fur cleaner, too. I have my Litter Robot 4 set to clean 15 minutes after a cat exits the box, and that seems to be the sweet spot in terms of allowing enough time for the clumps to form and keeping odour to a minimum, though your results may vary if the climate you live in is different than mine. I live in an area with relatively low humidity, and I keep a small natural desiccant near the mini air filter in my litter cabinet as well to minimise potential bacteria and mold growth. If you live in a more humid area I’d definitely recommend doing this, and you might want to allow more time after your cat leaves before the litterbox runs a cleaning cycle as well. The odour control is also excellent, which is the one thing that was a bummer about natural litters- they don’t trap smells as well. I’d wake up in the morning and immediately have to clean the box because the smell would be strong. I keep my litterbox in a litter cabinet designed to hold the Litter Robot and my couch is only a few feet away, meaning I can definitely tell if there are smells. I’m sitting in my couch right now and haven’t scooped yet this morning, so a full night’s use for two cats is a few feet away from me and I genuinely can’t smell anything. Also an added bonus, I have a female cat with urinary issues who is prone to getting UTIs easily and this litter has made keeping her rear clean much easier, which means fewer UTIs. She has long fur and difficulty cleaning herself back there, and even though I do give her a sanitary trim regularly she still can get dirty easily especially when her tummy issues act up. The natural and plant-based litters I’ve used tend to need to be changed out completely more frequently and grow bacteria more easily than this one, which ends up being both more expensive because of how often I have to do a full litter change and worse for her health. In terms of weight, it’s less heavy than some other clay litters I’ve used, like Dr. Elsey’s or Tidy Cats, but by no means as light as the lightweight clay litters. Honestly, I had no issues carrying it and the weight wasn’t a deciding factor for me, but figured I’d mention it anyway. I’m a petite woman with virtually no upper body strength and was able to carry the bag to and from my car without issue. My one minor gripe about this is the price. I feel like if this was just a little cheaper, like $30 even for a bag, I’d be 100% happy with the cost. That being said, the fact that it ticks basically all the boxes- excellent odour control, fast and tight clumping, ease of scooping, cleanliness, minimal tracking/sticking to their fur, no allergy or asthma issues, very low dust, works well with my LR4, and soft on my cats’ paws, means that I’m willing to pay for it. Just the fact that I don’t have to spend any more time testing out litters, the reduced scooping time, and the fact that I don have to worry as much about my longhair senior cat’s UTI issues and rear-end cleanliness and my other cat’s asthma and allergies has been such a huge quality of life upgrade that it’s worth the money. Overall, I’m thoroughly impressed by this litter and will be using it from now on. I’m so happy my search has finally ended after years of trying to find a litter that meets all my needs and allergy requirements!

I’ve tried quite a few different cat litters, and Boxiecat Pro has become one of my favorites. In a multi-cat household, odor control and good clumping are extremely important, and this litter does a great job with both. The clumps form quickly and stay together well instead of breaking apart into small pieces during cleaning. I also appreciate that it produces very little dust compared with many other clay litters I’ve used. One of the biggest advantages for me is how well Boxiecat Pro works in my Litter-Robot. I’ve had some litters stick to the inside of the globe as it rotates, but I don’t have that problem with this one. The litter releases well during the cleaning cycle rather than sticking to the sides, which helps keep the inside of the robot cleaner. Odor control has also been excellent, which is especially important in a home with multiple cats. It controls odors well without having an overpowering fragrance. It is more expensive than some other litters, but the performance is worth it to me. Between the strong clumping, low dust, odor control, and how well it works with my Litter-Robot, Boxiecat Pro has earned a permanent spot in my house.

Recently I had a pregnant queen give birth to four kittens. If you have ever dealt with a pregnant or nursing cat, you would know that they just DESTROY litter boxes when they go potty. It seems like everytime they pee it's a gallon, and everytime they poop it's a mountain. It's awful and, frankly, not many products out there can keep up with that degree of punishment while still controlling odor or without costing a fortune to clean and replace. Desperate, I turned to ChatGPT, who recommended this litter, as well as a few others. After trying some.kf the other options and being mostly unsatisfied I decided to go ahead and see if this one would be different. Let me put it like this: In a house with two adult cats, four 5-month old kittens and five 3-week old kittens, out of three large litter boxes THERE IS PRECISELY ZERO SMELL OR ODOR FROM ANY OF THEM. NONE. NOT EVEN A HINT OF ONE. In fact, I so completely FORGOT that there was SUPPOSED to be a smell that when I recently went and visited a friend's house who also had multiple cats and I walked in I couldn't believe how BAD the smell was! It really stunned me before I remembered "Hey, wait...I have a ton of cats. Why isn't my home this bad?". She claimed that I just didn't notice it, but when she came to visit after I had switched to this litter she was floored --it really wasn't there!! According to the company, after you start using this litter you "never have to change your litter from your littebox again" because the probiotics in the litter are constantly breaking down the waste. After 6 months of using this litter I can attest that this is mostly true -- the two times I have had to fully change the litter from the litter ones was because of just general hygiene as well as that I had accidentally allowed the litter to get too low while waiting on a delivery and the kittens had dug down BENEATH the litter and peed/pooped directly onto the litter box itself. 😓 While the current price point is a little high, I think the results speak for themselves and overall justify the price; since switching to this litter all of my cats & kittens have had less litter box complications and breathing issues since this litter is also very low-dust and hypoallergenic, and the shape of the litter itself doesn't easily lend to it tracking and sticking to their soft little paws. Even with diarrhea it clumps in record time and stays solid; with high moisture it locks it away almost instantly, making it extremely easy to scoop and sift. It's made from pet-safe ingredients and can take all the punishment a Multi-cat household has to offer. Obviously you cannot recycle this litter, or flush it down the toilet, but aside from that this is easily the most solid high-performance litter I've ever used. The other Boxie Cat litters are great as well, but I think this one is the GOAT. Don't take my word for it though. Get a 28lb bag and see for yourself. As a nice added touch, there are FREAKING HANDLES ON THE SIDE OF THE BAG!! HOW GREAT IS THAT?!! 😂 Everything about this litter had been well thought out and meticulously engineered for maximum comfort for both us and our pets. So give it a try. I am beyond glad that I did.

I have 6 cats. Yep. SIX. Didn't originally want 6 cats, but foster fails is a thing... This litter is good. It clumps well and has less dust than cheaper options. I never did like the "litter" smell, so this does well in that department - it is odorless, and doesn't smell like cleaning supplies. I have a Litter Robot downstairs and a Mintakawa auto-litter box upstairs, but unfortunately, this litter tracks. I have to vacuum and sweep my house all the time. The best compliment I've received was that my house doesn't smell like animals - I believe this is partly becasue of this litter. It's kinda pricey, though.

TL;DR: Does not clump hard enough so sticks to the bottom and sides of new LITTER ROBOT 4, doesn't control urine odor. Avoid. DETAILED EXPERIENCE: Got a brand new Litter Robot 4, but was informed by Litter Robot tech support that my box might not be detecting cats properly because the litter I've always used —fantastic performance but admittedly dusty [Edit: Scoop Away**]—is a particularly heavy litter, which they claim can interfere with the cat detection sensor (a major, MAJOR design flaw in my opinion, one which means I can't fill the bottom of the box up to the fill line, but ain't nothin I can do about it). So, I found this litter, read the absurdly raving reviews (that alone should have set off warning bells) about how it works so well, especially in the Litter Robot, and bought it. What a waste of 30 bucks. If Amazon doesn't refund me I'm going to be so pissed. Urine clumps stick to the bottom of the box like this litter was specifically designed to do just that, which I discovered when I woke up to find a nasty box this morning. At first I thought the box must have malfunctioned and not have run a cycle all night, but because of the previous cat detection issue I had a cat cam filming the box to properly troubleshoot, and I viewed the footage and confirmed that it ran exactly as designed (Point 1 for Litter Robot 4); It ran full cycles all night and after ever visit by a cat, the clumps simply clung to the bottom of the box like a baby spider monkey to its mother's back, so what I found in the morning was a box full of soft sticky urine "clumps" (halfway between a clump and sludge is how I would describe it) and, well, the other things cats leave in boxes, and it's too small a litter reservoir to handle that amount of use without the machine emptying properly. I mean, poor cats. So gross. I'm surprised someone didn't just use the floor, but (in an unusual move, my cats know exactly how to voice their displeasure if they deem it necessary) they all took pity on me and gallantly continued to use it, standing on their tippy toes in the sludgy mess. I have it set to the default eight minutes between cat use and clean cycle, so it's not set to wait too short a time to clump, eight minutes should be sufficient for it to harden up. It doesn't clump hard, which is probably why it sticks. Upon further inspection (I JUST watched a cycle run) after the box had rotated to the point where everything in it should have slid down and into the hole that empties the box's contents into the drawer, a clump DID detach, and it did start sliding down, but it seemed to defy the laws of physics and stopped its descent an inch from the hole. Damn thing clung for dear life to what would in a moment be the CEILING of the box (after it had rotated all the way back around), where it either would have stayed, glued above the cat's heads, waiting for me to come a scrape it off, necessitating an actual cleaning of the ceiling, or would have eventually (curtesy of gravity) dropped down into the litter at the bottom, waiting, sticky and unburied, for a cat to get in and step on it. Also, I can smell the urine in the box from outside the closed utility room door now, that's how little this litter controls urine odor. A couple of my cats have a strong urine scent, but the *unscented Scoop Away has NEVER failed to control that. I would not recommend this litter, and can't help but suspect that the raving reviews are either paid ones, or were generated by the BoxieCat company itself (yes, companies do that, both here and on Reddit and other social media platforms), because it performs exactly OPPOSITE of how all the other reviews claim. *I originally wrote I normally use Fresh Step. I realized pretty quickly that was incorrect. I've been using unscented SCOOP AWAY for 14 years, so I don't know why I originally wrote Fresh Step. *facepalm*. Anyhow, Unscented Scoop Away is the bomb. If your cats have especially pungent smelling urine I'd recommend you at least give it a try, nothing beats it in that regard, as far as I can tell. Only issues is it IS sort of dusty, and it is denser than some other clay litters, so (at least according to Litter Robot) it can make it harder for the machine to detect a cat in the drum. I only had that issue a couple times in the last three weeks of using the LR4, though. I have been following their advice and leave the half-inch of space between the sand and the fill line, but, If I am having doubts about its detection abilities (I'm a preemptively-troubleshooting, proactive kind of person...i.e. catastrophic thinker :P), I fill the box to half an inch below the fill line and VERY gently put down and pick up a five pound brick in the sand, five times in a row, to make sure the box detects at least that amount "cat" weight (if you place it and pick it up only once the box is programmed to not empty, the red detection light will turn on (tricking you) and then revert to blue after you walk away, because it thinks a cat just stuck a paw in and left without using the box). I know that sounds like a hassle, but it's worth it for peace of mind. Anyhow, this ends my Litter Robot kitty litter Ted Talk. Have a nice day.

Finally after years of trying over a dozen litters, BoxieCat Pro litter wins! Very Low Dust, Lower tracking outside the box and mat in front, great clumping, and controls odor. I have 4 cats and 5 litter boxes which I only clean once a day... Very low, almost no dust of any non-crystal litter I tried. My black cats do not come out covered with 2-4" of "dust socks". They are all digging and covering their waste again; which was an issue with other brand's large granules and the crystal litter types. There is no noticeable "clouds" of dust when I put litter into the box or scoop out waste. I have asthma and allergies, so this was a very important factor to me. I'd rate it's dust at 12 out of 10 :) Most of the litter stays in the box or the 2'x3' litter mat in front of it. The litter is heavy which I expect helps with the lower tracking. All of the "light weight" litter I tried were tracked everywhere, several - many feet away from the litter box area. Other 'Low Tracking" litters, particularly those with larger granules, did better in this category; but my cats didn't like them and stopped even trying to cover their waste, creating odor issues. I'd rate its tracking at 7 out of 10. Clumping is great. It clumps on the top as advertised. The clumps are solid, stay together, and are easy to scoop. 2 of my 4 cats pee on the sidewall instead of squatting and peeing directly into the litter; and even most of that clumps well at the bottom of the wall... And the BoxiePro Scoop & Spray Litter extender has done wonders keeping the walls cleaner and not smelling like urine! I'd rate its clumping as 12 out of 10! Odor control from the litter itself is good...adding the BoxiePro Scoop & Spray Litter Extender and its great! There is no overwhelming scent from the litter; having asthma and allergies, this was another important factor to me. I constantly ask my friends and family who visit, if they can smell my cats or their waste; and they have all responded when using BoxiePro "We don't smell the cats, or their poop or urine at all! If we didn't know better, we would not realize you even had cats." For clarity and openness... I only clean each litter box once a day. The cats are fed soft food twice daily and hard food is always available; so yes they have very stinky poop :) Again, the Spray Litter Extender has really helped reduce the urine odor caused by my 2 cats that pee on the side walls of the litter box (yes I have high wall litter boxes). I'd rate the litter's order control as 11 out of 10....but with the spray I'd rate it 15 out of 10! And finally... I am a real person. I am not related to anyone at BoxieCat. I have not, nor do I expect any discounts or compensation from them for writing this. I think this is only my 3rd written review and I have ordered a lot of items online for several years. Simply put, I have struggled for years trying to find the best litter. I have read many, many reviews for years and have used all of most of their top 5 recommendations. BoxieCat Pro is the best given the factors that are a priority for me discussed above.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ After trying several brands, this is hands down the best cat litter I've found. My European Maine Coon eats a fresh diet, so odor control is really important, and Boxie Pro does an amazing job of taking care of business. It clumps extremely well, making scooping quick and easy. I clean the litter box 2 to 4 times a day, and this litter keeps everything fresh without falling apart. The biggest surprise was how little it tracks and the fact that it's truly dust free. No clouds of dust when pouring or scooping, and far less litter ending up all over the floor. If you're looking for excellent odor control, strong clumping, low tracking, and virtually no dust, I highly recommend giving Boxie Pro a try!

I've used this brand for 3 years and within the last 6 months they have changed their recipe and have rebranded. It used to be fantastic! I have a system that uses stainless steel litter boxes with a metal scooper and with the old recipe it worked like a charm; low odor, minimal/manageable dust, easy scooping, lasted 2.5 months between two cats with minimal top offs of new litter at the 3 month mark. I rarely had to completely dump and change the litter to fresh. That's how good it was for odor control. Absolute best on the market and my cats loved it. However, with the new recipe and rebranding that has happened, I have noticed that, yes, while the dust is extremely reduced, other aspects that I loved have gotten worse. It is extremely heavy now and more dense. It is harder to scoop; I have to really scrape at the box to get it clean as it sticks to everything now as the clay is too moist. It hurts my wrist. The moisture content issue has made it hard for my cats to come away with clean paws and they track it around the house so much so that now I find clumps stuck to fabric and the floor and it's a pill to clean and keep an eye out for all the time. The odor control lasts about a week and because of how it clumps, we go through it so much quicker and we need a refill (and a deep clean of the boxes!) sooner than the marketed time. I've raved about this brand for years and have recommended it to so many people but because of these changes I am looking for a new brand. What a bummer! I really hope they see loyal customers reviews of these changes and go back to what they once were!! Attached are photos of what the brand used to look like in comparison to what it is now!

For the amount from 1 bag is expensive but also do note its not really dust free. However, the dust is very low to a minimal. Aside from that, it masks smell very well and low tracking. Its a win for me and my cats.

Great litter. Does the job.

There was very little dust which was brilliant but it didn’t deal with smells very well. I clean out the debris every time my cats use it but it only took a couple of days for an unpleasant smell to linger which didn’t go away.

Seems to work well with my automatic litter box. It doesn’t smell badly, lightweight enough to not be dragged around the house. It’s heavy for me to carry but too lightweight doesn’t work with my older cats. Doesn’t stick to hind legs. Think I’ve finally found the one. I’d say a little pricy but worth it.

great litter, last longer and less waste!