Michael told me you would like to send me another batch with instructions. I’m willing to give it another try and Monty seemed to really like it, so he won’t care. I will have to rely on my husband’s nose primarily since my sense of smell is faint and unreliable.

I looked at the picture you posted more carefully, and I think the white mat included with the litter was supposed to go under it and may have made a difference in odor control. I have to change and clean Monty’s litter box today, so I will put it in there. He has a very large litter box, so it won’t cover the whole thing, but I’ll put it in the middle with his usual litter and we will see if there is an improvement in odor control. I sniffed the mat and it seems like there is a faint scent to it, like a mild perfume, but my nose is not very reliable. I will rely on my husband’s nose to test whether the mat itself provides an advantage in odor control. I’m sorry I missed testing it in the original test. If they had sent the photo along with everything in the box, I would have gotten it right. My thought is that I still wouldn’t personally choose this litter, because I prefer a product that clumps together, so that I can scoop out urine. The corn, pine and wheat based litters do clump, at least somewhat. Small stones covered in dust don’t clump. But if a person went from non-clumping clay litter to this, they might prefer it. And again, it does have the advantage of being a natural product. Perhaps they would do well to market the odor absorbing pads separately so people could use them along with their choice of litter, but we’ll see how it works. I will say one thing– with the drought we’ve had and the loss of corn crops, Monty’s corn based litter is going to get expensive. So in that way, Pet Loo most certainly offers a cost saving option.

Monty had no problem with it. He peed and pooped in it and played in it. It was all like little stones, and he had a good time picking them up with his claws, digging in them, and jumping in and out of his box. It was like I brought outside time inside for him. He sniffed it quite a bit. Though the company claims the litter contains anti-bacterial and anti-odor ingredients, I just didn’t see any evidence of that. It appeared to be screenings, pure and simple, and my husband agreed with that assessment. If they did put something in it to control odor it was not effective. I didn’t smell any poop odor, but I almost never do. The urine smell was quite overpowering. The amount of dust was also overwhelming– not so much when Monty was playing in it as when I put it in and dumped it out of his litter box.