I never should have strayed from the friendly aisles of Feline Pine, a stink reducing flushable cat litter that gets the job done. But alas, my eyes caught sight of the package and I thought "Good Mews?" Oh dear God, the name alone is worth the purchase. How wrong I was.

What attracted me initially, besides the extraordinary name, was that the pellets are flushable. This is a big plus for a gal like me with a tiny apartment several stories above my building's basement/garbage area. No frequent trips to dispose of stinky litter: you can just shake the pellets through the scoop and flush the remaining poop.

I also approved of the form of the litter. I hate, hate, hate the gritty, gravelly bits of gray stuff that passes for litter and which gets everywhere, as faithfully tracked through the rooms by the kitty. So though the pellets also travel outside the box, they are not nearly as prevalent and they're easier to spot and remove (each pellet is about a half an inch).

The color of the litter is gray, and when wet it darkens. The scent control works for 3 days and then suddenly your litter area smells exactly like cat urine. Cat urine on top of newspapers, because that's what it is folks. Good Mews is made from recycled newspaper. The pellets don't break down easily either, so when you scoop them into the toilet bowl, vainly hoping to exorcise the ammonia scent, you notice they're still intact as they go down the bowl. Frankly I might be a bit alarmed about using this product if I had an old toilet or one that simply can't flush a lot of material at once.

So after having bought into the "Good Mews" mentality of happily flushing lovely pellets with no odor what you find is that you've really bought a package of urine holding, stink pellets that refuse to break down. After 3 days I simply trashed the whole litter box and returned to the familiar, odor reducing reassurance of Feline Pine Cat Litter. The two packages cost exactly the same, but there is simply no contest: Feline Pine is superior in every way. Bad news for Good Mews.

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