Review of World's Best Cat Litter

A few posts ago, I was in the process of changing my cat's litter to the World's Best Cat Litter, made from corn. Now that we are completely acclimated to the new litter, I have a few observations:

1) It is NOT dust free. Does it kick up less dust than clay brands, yes, but expect small clouds of corn dust every time you change the litter. On the plus side, the dust smells like a farmer's field and remains in the room. As opposed to clay litters that cling to your lungs like mud and easily float through the air into other parts of the house.

2) The package claims it clumps faster and perhaps it does, but it's not near as strong a clump as clay-based litters create. With clay, you could play golf with the clumps and they would hold together. Corn clumps can barely hold together through the scooping process. Plus, the larger corn particles means it doesn't sift near as well as clay through a traditional kitty litter scoop.

3) It has fine odor control if the cat actually takes the time to cover her business. Apparently, my cats are far too busy to waste time with that.

4) I'm not quite sure what is meant on the package by "lasts longer." I don't find that necessarily to be true. It feels like I'm buying litter more often than I was before and it's more expensive than clay litter. If they mean it goes longer before you have to completely empty the litter box, wash it out, and start completely over...well, the jury is still out on that.

5) World's Best Cat Litter is a little more of a challenge to get your hands on. Clay litters are sold in drug stores and grocery stores everywhere. Even some of your convenience store/gas stations will have some kind of clumping cat litter. If you are looking for World's Best, you have to make a trip to the pet store or Target or another specific retailer. (A list of retailers can be found on their website.) The point is: you can't just buy it anywhere like you can with clay.

6) It seems to track less than clay. Maybe because the corn particles are larger and they don't as easily get caught in between kitty toes, but I find far less corn litter throughout the house than I used to find clay. This makes up for most of my issues with the clumping capabilities because if there's one thing I hate about cat litter it's finding it on the opposite end of the house from where the litter box is located.

I like the fact that I'm being environmentally friendly and it does a good job, but the manufacturer has a little work to do. For most of us, solid clumping is the biggest inconvenience. I can deal with a little dust just so long as I know when I scoop the clump out, it's not going to bust apart, spewing pieces back into the litter box I am desperately trying to clean.

For me, World's Best Cat Litter earns a grade of: B.  Certainly doing it's job, but not doing as good a job as it could be.