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Dr. Elsey’s Premium Clumping Cat Litter - Ultra - 99.9% Dust-Free, Low Tracking, Hard Clumping, Superior Odor Control, Unscented & Natural Ingredients
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Brand | Dr. Elsey's |
Item Weight | 40 Pounds |
Material | Clay |
Scent | Unscented |
Target Species | Cat |
About this item
- PREMIUM QUALITY: A combination of premium texture and granule size made with 100% bentonite clay for maximum clumping creates litter particles that are just the right size.
- LOW DUST: Ideal for cats and owners who suffer from allergies with a 99.9% dust-free and hypoallergenic litter formulation.
- HARD CLUMPING: Hard clumping medium grain clay helps prevent moisture from reaching the bottom of the tray and forms hard clumps that won't break down, making it easier to scoop.
- SUPERIOR ODOR CONTROL: Formulated for single or multi-cat households with natural ingredients to keep your home smelling clean and fresh between litter box cleanings.
- LOW TRACKING: A unique formulation of medium grain clay helps keep litter in the box where it belongs.
- FOUNDED IN 1987: Dr. Elsey’s is a veterinarian-owned cat product brand dedicated to creating products that solve the complex needs of pet owners. Founded in 1987 with the first all-natural clumping cat litter, Dr. Elsey’s line of products has since grown to include a variety of premium litters that address the health and behavioral needs of cats in every stage of life.
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Absorbency | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.4 | — | — | 3.9 |
Odor elimination | 3.9 | 3.7 | 4.1 | — | — | 3.9 |
Scent | 3.9 | 4.0 | 4.1 | — | — | 3.8 |
Easy to clean | — | 4.2 | 4.4 | — | — | 3.7 |
Value for money | — | 4.0 | 4.1 | — | — | 3.8 |
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scent | Unscented | Unscented | Fresh Scent | Unscented | — | Fresh Scent |
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weight | 40 pounds | 15 pounds | 18 pounds | 25 pounds | 0.01 ounces | 10 pounds |
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 20 x 14 x 4 inches; 40 Pounds
- Item model number : 460U
- Department : Litter & Accessories
- Date First Available : November 1, 2005
- Manufacturer : Precious Cat
- ASIN : B0009X29WK
- Country of Origin : USA
- Best Sellers Rank: #4 in Pet Supplies (See Top 100 in Pet Supplies)
- #1 in Cat Litter
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Product Description
Dr. Elsey's Precious Cat Ultra Clumping Cat Litter is a unique formulation that combines the heavy non-tracking granules of classic with a medium-grain clay. The result is an excellent clumping litter that prevents moisture from reaching the bottom of the tray while providing a clump that will not break down. This cat litter is perfect for multi-cat households and those cat parents with sifting or mechanical litter boxes. With its superior odor control, you can be sure your home will always smell fresh and clean.
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Safety Information
Wash your hands thoroughly after handling the litter box. Properly disposing of urine clumps and cat feces, is beneficial to overall water quality. Please do not flush or dispose of it outdoors in gutters or storm drains.
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All-Natural
Directions
Fill clean, dry litter box with 3" to 4" of Dr. Elsey's litter. Scoop waste twice daily and refill box as necessary. Replace entire box once a month. Dispose of used litter in trash. DO NOT FLUSH.
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Customers like the quality and clumping of the cat litter. They say it's a great product that provides excellent odor control and eliminates dust. They also appreciate the clumped size, and value of the litter. However, some customers have reported issues with the litter sticking to the bottom of the box and to the scooper. Customers also differ on tracking, and cleanliness.
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Customers like the odor control of the pet supplies. They mention that it keeps any unpleasant smells from escaping and doesn't stink up the room.
"...Fresh Step (total 16 points):Odor Control: 4444 stars: I don’t smell much but odor control starts to fade near the end of the month...." Read more
"...of weight, texture, and environmental friendliness, but for price, odor control, and clumping this is about as good as it gets...." Read more
"This product is unscented, but completely masks scent...." Read more
"...Only towards the end of its life cycle does it tend to stink much, but again, that’s only when scooping. And I use the scent free one!..." Read more
Customers like the quality of the cat litter. For example, they say it's the best litter ever, has the perfect formula, and lasts over a month with two cats. Customers are also impresseded with the clumping, saying it lasts longer than other litters.
"...comes to mind about this litter is that it saved our carpets, piles of dirty laundry and sanity from Bailey's sketchy bladder...." Read more
"...Hard Clumping: 4444 stars: works pretty good for 15 days, in the second half of the month, I am occasionally scraping pasty off the walls, but not..." Read more
"...It was good for changing litter, there is almost no dust. Unfortunately the litter itself smells like bad clay...." Read more
"...NO dust at all, the litter clumps as hard as a rock and never comes to pieces while being scooped, and for some reason, I seem to be adding litter..." Read more
Customers like the dust of the pet supplies. They say it clumps well, is not dusty, and has zero ordor when scooped regularly. They also mention that there is no more clouds of dust billowing up and settling on everything in the vicinity. Customers also appreciate that there are no little particles of pee litter left after cleaning. However, some customers also mention the product does not leave that white powder residue like other litter.
"...However, this has less dust than any other litter I can think of and I love that.-..." Read more
"...Price: 22 stars: it is pricey.Low Dust: 55555 stars: no dust when I pour, no dust all month.Fresh Step (total 16 points):..." Read more
"Cat litter.It's dusty. Dusty and gray. Also, granular...." Read more
"...Very fast clumping. Very low dust...." Read more
Customers like the clumping ability of the pet supplies. For example, they mention it clups well, not dusty, and zero ordor when scooped regularly. Some say the litter clumples as hard as a rock and never comes to pieces while being used. That said, most are satisfied with the odor control and the fact that it clumsy even uncovered waste.
"...This stuff clumps so consistently and so tightly that Detroit should consider using this stuff to fill potholes...." Read more
"...Odor Control: 55555 stars: no smell all month.Hard Clumping: 55555 stars: Already good clumping from Dr Elsey, beefed up Arm & Hammer’s..." Read more
"...Very fast clumping. Very low dust...." Read more
"...odor whatsoever, there is absolutely NO dust at all, the litter clumps as hard as a rock and never comes to pieces while being scooped, and for some..." Read more
Customers like the value of the litter. For example, they say it's a great value, saves them money, and works well for the price. Some mention that it doesn't dry enough.
"...Cost - This litter is significantly cheaper than the major brands you see in large jugs at just about every supermarket in the country...." Read more
"...It's very inexpensive and you can get it on Amazon and have it delivered to your door.Unfortunately it didn't work in my situation." Read more
"...That's impressive efficiency and cost-effectiveness that I can't find fault with...." Read more
"...dust feature, and the promise of better odor control, plus the reasonable price motivated me to give it a shot...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the cleanliness of the pet supplies. Some mention that the clumping is great making for easy clean up, and controls odor. They also say the large granules are easy to vacuum up and are quick at desiccating all the waste. However, others say that it's difficult to clean the box often because of the large solid clums.
"...This stuff is quick at desiccating all the waste very quickly.Be warned. This litter is heavy...." Read more
"...Scrapping a mushy litter paste off the bottom or side wall is awful, messy, time consuming, and disgusting...." Read more
"...I like that it's bio degradable and won't clog my pipes when I try to wash it." Read more
"...The litter box is easy to clean...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the tracking of the cat litter. Some mention that the larger granules make it minimally track, while others say that it does track a bit.
"...low dust- low tracking (I live in a very small apartment where there aren’t many steps between the litter box and the couch or the bed)-..." Read more
"...Plus it leaves your scoop all gross.Low tracking. I don’t want litter all over the house. Keep it in the box please!Price...." Read more
"...Almost no tracking...." Read more
"...It does track a little, especially right after the cat leaves the box, but it usually isn't too bad...." Read more
Customers are not happy with the stickiness of the litter. They mention that it sticks to the bottom of the box, the scooper, and the cat's feet. The clumps are also sticky and can become stuck to the scoop. Customers also mention that the litter lingers in the air and causes them to cough.
"...Not only that, but the cats sometimes had "damp" paws, the dust would stick to the paws, and they were tracking cement-like trails across the..." Read more
"...but because of her odd litterbox habits, it still gets stuck to the bottom of the litterbox, and takes a lot of effort to scrape off...." Read more
"...Only con is that it is so sticky and sticks go the bottom of the box and to my scooper. Cleaning it will be annoying...." Read more
"...I did notice that the clumps in this litter are a little sticky and are round rather than cookie shaped, like with Fresh Step, which I believe is..." Read more
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For a long time, I used Arm & Hammer clump and seal litter. I didn’t hate it, but felt like it didn’t clump as well as it could and I wanted to try something else. So I switched to Pretty Litter for a while because I liked the color changing aspect. However, I started to notice that it wasn’t lasting as long as it was supposed to and I didn’t want to keep paying that much for something that wasn’t doing what it was supposed to. I liked the no-clump aspect, but it seemed to irritate my kitty’s toes. She was constantly picking stuff off the hair on her feet (and she doesn’t have long hair at all) and I felt like it tracked a lot. I then tried a few different silicone litters, but the more affordable ones were too hard to find regularly (ie often out of stock).
So after all that experimentation, I had a few qualities I was looking for:
- low dust
- low tracking (I live in a very small apartment where there aren’t many steps between the litter box and the couch or the bed)
- low odor
- hopefully non-clumping
I ended up compromising on the non-clumping part, because this litter meets my other wish list items so well.
- Dust: I haven’t tried some of the “natural” litters like the ones made from corn, wheat, etc. so I can’t speak for those. But otherwise I have used many of the popular litters and I have concluded that there probably isn’t a 100% dust free litter. I think it’s just the nature of such a product. However, this has less dust than any other litter I can think of and I love that.
- Tracking: again, not sure if there exists a 100% no track litter. But in my experience, this tracks the least. I did notice after I was sick for a couple weeks (still scooping ofc but not as worried about cleaning up the litter on the floor) it did start to get a little spread out and ground into the carpet. But as long as I was vacuuming regularly I barely noticed any tracking.
- Odor: this and the low tracking were probably the main selling points for me. I’ve honestly forgotten to scoop the box a couple times because I. NEVER. SMELL IT! Even when scooping it, it hardly smells. Only towards the end of its life cycle does it tend to stink much, but again, that’s only when scooping. And I use the scent free one! I hate the smell of scented cat litter (it gets too strong for me and in my head it’s a “cover up” smell, like spraying perfume on a dirty shirt or pants lol) I think this is the best quality of this litter. If odor is your sticking point, I’d definitely recommend trying this.
- Clumping: as I said above, this was what I compromised on. **This IS a clumping litter.** But it clumps EXTREMELY well. Honestly sometimes it’s a bit like scooping a rock. If it’s a larger clump sometimes I have to put in some effort to break it in half. So because of that and how great the other qualities are, I was fine with switching back to a clumping litter. I have a Litter Genie so it’s not too much of an inconvenience. Actually, my only (very minor) complaint would be that the clumps get too heavy to fill the Litter Genie bag as full as I’d like, but it doesn’t bother me that much.
- Price: I haven’t sat down and figured out how this one compares to the others in terms of price, but it’s at least comparable and I think very reasonable for the quality of what you get. The 18lb bag is a little more than enough to fill up the litter box, and has been lasting about a month.
So glad I decided to try Dr. Elsey’s! I hope this review is helpful to anyone else shopping around for litter like I was.
It's dusty. Dusty and gray. Also, granular. Decidedly less so upon being used, it forms a foul smelling hillock that waits for the low-man-on-the-totem-pole of the household to reluctantly scoop it. It smells of...cat litter? What else does cat litter smell like? I dunno. It's the medium in which we expect our pet cats to expel their waste.
That's it.
That's about as much brain real estate each of us has devoted to the rousing topic of "Cat litter" and deservedly so. Cat litter is one of those things that is so inconsequential in our lives, so banal of a product, that any amount of conversational effort devoted to it is too much. That is, when it works.
And yet...here I am reviewing it on Amazon.
In addition to having a decent (boring?) enough of a life that I can devote time to reviewing cat litter on Amazon, I have two cats. One is a white flame-point ragdoll cat that is the reincarnation of Steve McQueen that'll befriend a Rottweiler within minutes of meeting (Tucker) and the other is a painfully shy siamese that closely resembles a raccoon that swallowed a medicine ball - we call her "the basement troll" for her penchant for cool, dark spaces and cardboard boxes. Formally, however, she is known as "Bailey".
While Bailey is extremely sweet, she's very nervous and scares extremely easily. She hides in the basement whenever anyone comes to the house and hates being carried. While Tucker is as cool as Billy Dee Williams and makes the Dos Equis guy look like Don Knotts, Bailey is more sensitive than an open cavity. As a result, she's suffered from chronic bladder infections for years.
While both of these cats are polar opposites of each other, both had one thing in common - they both had a penchant for leaving tootsie rolls just outside of their litterbox. In addition, because Bailey suffered from routine bladder infections, we were starting to see rust-colored spots in not-so-inconspicous places around the house (essentially every carpeted corner in the house). While I certainly don't condone the tendency for families to throw their hands up in the air in exasperation and send their pet cat straight to the kennel when this happens, I can understand how it happens.
If only there was some sort of miracle product that keeps such tragedies from happening...
Yes, Precious Cat Ultra Premium Clumping Cat Litter is that product. How incredible is this stuff you ask? I'll tell you: it's so damned good that here I am, semi-supine in my cozy bed on the last Tuesday before Christmas and instead of figuring out how I'm going to get every last gift that I'm obligated to buy, I'm reviewing this cat litter. That's how f---ing great this stuff is. It's simply sublime - transcendent even. In a world where every product is so over-hyped, brightly packaged, and intrusively advertised on every screen in your house and yet is woefully and ultimately ineffectual, here's a product that's the equivalent of a circa 1974 George Foreman right cross packaged in a manila envelope.
Before I continue, I would just like to say that this isn't one of those inane, dipsh-t "ironic" reviews that self-entertained hipsters write in the hopes that they get recognized by Buzzfeed - I'm as sincere as I can be - this is the Alpha and Omega of cat litter.
With that out of the way, the first thing that comes to mind about this litter is that it saved our carpets, piles of dirty laundry and sanity from Bailey's sketchy bladder. Cynical as I am, I was fully expecting the worst for Bailey - her bladder infections were a more consistent recidivist than Tyron Biggums and there was no end in sight. Like seemingly all pet ailments, I was fully expecting Bailey's treatment to be outrageously expensive.
Thankfully, we're blessed with a vet that had long since paid off her exorbitant student loans and rather than recommend more "tests" (i.e. $$$$), she recommended Precious Cat Litter. Always in favor of the cheapest, easiest, and simplest answer, I happily ordered it from Amazon. I replaced all the litter in the house (Tidy Cat) with the Precious Cat stuff and was ill prepared with how fast I saw results. Literally minutes later, there were fresh clumps in one of the litter boxes. Both cats took to this stuff like a fish to water. No longer do we find "surprises" propped up against the litter box when it comes time to clean them out and that's pretty damned nice.
So, I give this stuff an easy 5 stars right off the bat due to its ability to coax Bailey to start using the litter box again, and thereby curing her bladder infections for good. That alone makes this a 5 star product. It fully exceeded my expectations. What really makes this stuff special is the comorbidity of the following:
1.) Cost - This litter is significantly cheaper than the major brands you see in large jugs at just about every supermarket in the country. For the longest time I couldn't understand why cat litter was so expensive - I mean it's not like clay and "proprietary scent crystals" are rare earth metals. Precious Cat Litter brings sanity back to cat litter pricing. It's also pretty sweet that a 40lb. bag of this stuff ships with free 2 day shipping with an Amazon Prime subscription. Thus, the value proposition is off the charts with this litter.
2.) Scent - There is none.
No, I'm not just talking about the actual scent of the litter - I'm talking about after it's been used. Bullsh-t you say? I can't blame you - every friggin' litter I've ever used that advertised such a claim has failed miserably. Cat urine is so putrid and so powerful that it causes many landlords to refuse cats to be present on their premises. I wish I had known about this product years ago because it effectively renders this objection null and void. The way this stuff absolutely smothers cat urine smells is positively game-changing. We have four cat litter boxes in our house - one is in the upstairs laundry room right at the top of the stairs. Normal cat litters would assault the olfactory senses of any poor soul unfortunate enough to walk upstairs in our house. Not so with this litter.
It's ability to c-o-m-p-l-e-t-e-l-y void the stench of cat urine is truly other-worldly, maybe even a little bit spooky. Absolutely nothing should work this well at canceling out one of the worst smells known to the human race. Thus, I have no other choice than to conclude that simple logic dictates that Beelzebub himself MUST be involved somewhere in the supply chain of this product - there's no way humans alone have unlocked the superpower of neutering cat urine funk. However, this raises a philosophical question unto itself - how bad could the devil really be if he/she/it is involved with such a flawless product? Eh? Think about it.
So, Precious Cat litter is not only super good at eliminating cat urine stench, but it also forces consumers to deeply ponder some of life's most mysterious philosophical questions. Tidy Cat don't do that, jus sayin'...
3.) Clumping performance - To me, next to the puke-inducing smell of cat urine, scooping soggy piles of cat mess is the absolute worst part of changing the litter box. With the mainstream brands, I've noticed there's about a 50:50 chance that the litter will clump. When it does, things are a-okay. When it doesn't, you might as well don a painter's mask and goggles to deal with the resulting acrid fumes. Once again, Precious Cat punches far above its weight here. This stuff clumps so consistently and so tightly that Detroit should consider using this stuff to fill potholes. Cleaning the litter box with Precious Cat is a much faster, much easier, and much less painful experience than ever.
So, I conclude my review. Is Precious Cat a fantastic cat litter? Indeed. However, it's something better than that - it's a product that transcends its meager goals, which is to merely be a substance that cats crap into. For one, it's absolutely unmatched in its ability to do what no other cat litter can do, namely "leave no trace" that a cat resides in your house, a "silent warrior" if you will. Yes, I said it - it's essentially the Navy SeALs of cat litter. It's also cheaper than its inept competitors. Perhaps most importantly, it can be the difference between a cat being happy and comfortable in a loving home and a cat finding itself in a shelter. Lastly, it's so outstanding that after witnessing its perfection, you'll be highly motivated to write paragraphs about it on Amazon.
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First off, let's talk clumping power. This stuff is no joke. As soon as my cat does her business, it forms tight clumps that make scooping a breeze. It's like magic! Plus, it means I'm not wasting litter and can make the bag last longer, which is a win-win in my book. Now, onto the smell. I have the litter boxes in my bedroom, so odor control is non-negotiable. Thankfully, Dr. Elsey's Ultra Cat Litter has got it covered. It traps odors like nobody's business, keeping my home smelling fresh and clean, even with a litter box in the corner. And can we talk about the dust situation? With other litters, I felt like I needed a hazmat suit every time I cleaned the box. But not with this one. It's virtually dust-free, which gives me peace of mind knowing my cat and I aren't breathing in anything harmful. All in all, Dr. Elsey's Precious Cat Ultra Cat Litter has exceeded my expectations in every way. It's reliable, effective, and makes caring for my cat a whole lot easier. If you're a fellow cat owner on the hunt for the perfect litter, do yourself a favor and give this one a try. You won't be disappointed.