Our newest addition, a crazy with so-called “crazy eyes” meant some new purchases, as well. Since I haven’t owned a cat in years and have never owned one by myself, I solicited some advice about products and divided my cat supply shopping into items which I preferred to spend more money on and items which price made little difference (that is, products which I could find cheaper). I headed to Petsmart for the former and Wal-mart for the latter.

My Wal-mart trip included standards items like a litter box and scoop as well as the litter itself. I opted to go with Arm and Hammer Odor Alert because it has a friendly price and was a trusted name.

It seemed interesting with crystal which turn colour when wet to alert you to the clumps, hence the name: Odor Alert. I haven’t been knocked off my feet by this “feature,” yet. Although the crystals are easy to identify, they seem to be easily triggered. As we keep the litter box in the bathroom, near the shower, where moisture runs rampant, I think the crystals tend to change colour because of that. In retrospect, I should have thought about that when buying Arm and Hammer Odor Alert cat litter. But so should they when making it. Bathrooms are a popular place for litter boxes.

My other beef with the colour changing crystals in this cat litter is that sometimes they don’t alert you to clumps. Sometimes they are wet but don’t clump. I think that this cat litter clumps decently so it’s just an issue of the crystals turning colour prematurely. Needless to say, I’ve never actually used the blue crystals to my advantage when scooping out the litter.

Many people seem to be offended by the scent of this cat litter. I cannot say the Odor Alert is odorless but it doesn’t phase me. It simply smells a little fruity or flowery like many cat litters and when mixed with the scent of cat matter, it isn’t wonderful but it won’t kill me either. You can tell when a cat has used the potty because it ‘increases’ the scent. In the future, I may try and odorless litter instead.

I am happy to say that my kitty had no adverse reaction to Odor Alert cat litter by Arm and Hammer. We did buy a litter box mat because my cat does track some of the litter into the bathroom and, when wet, it sort of melts into the floor and takes a lot of scrubbing to get off.

Overall, this is a decent cat litter and I’m glad I purchased it at Wal-mart rather than Petsmart where it was much more expensive. I would probably look for something higher quality in the future, though.