Trouble & Trix Ultra Scoop Cat Litter

Australia's Trouble and Trix steps away from the tofu that made its name and reaches for clay, and the Ultra Scoop arrives at No. 25 with seventy eight, a supermarket mineral with a single perfect score and a familiar conscience cost.

Odour is the headline, a flawless five, the litter sealing a used box clean and holding it through the week, the quality the name leans on. Clumping is excellent at four and a half, the clusters setting hard and lifting whole, and tracking matches it at the same mark, the heavy grain staying largely in the tray. On the things that decide a daily scoop, it is genuinely strong.

The card weakens in two places. Dust is marked at three and a half, the one performance axis that gives ground, the clay showing a little more haze on the pour than the engineered leaders. And sustainability scores just two, the honest floor of strip mined bentonite, neither renewable nor biodegradable, the ceiling on every litter of its kind.

What you are buying is a capable, affordable Australian clumping clay with excellent odour control, from a trusted local brand better known for its plant litters. It is the choice for the owner who has tried tofu and decided they want the harder clump and longer odour seal of mineral, at a price the supermarket sets. It will not satisfy the environmentally minded, and it is a touch dustier than the best of its category, but on odour and clumping it does exactly what it sets out to do. A solid, no nonsense clay from a name antipodean owners already trust.