Arm & Hammer Slide Easy Clean-Up Litter has the best record for staying in the box: 13 of 15 owners said it tracked little, though that's a small group. Fresh Step Odor Shield Multi-Cat Litter is next at 11 of 18. Owners mostly write about tracking when litter ends up all over the floor, so low shares are common on this page.
Updated . How we count
Share of pet owners who stated an outcome for tracking. Ranked by the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval, so a product needs both a good share and enough reports to rank high.
The low records aren't all noise. More owners weighed in on Tidy Cats 24/7 Performance Litter than on any other litter here, and 62 of 70 said it got tracked around the house, the weakest record on the page.
Praise and complaints are the points pet owners repeat most, shown as a share of each product's counted store reviews.
Arm & Hammer
47% of reviews praise the clumps and 47% the smell control. The brand's own site agrees (5 of 7), though those reviews aren't counted here.
No repeated complaints yet.
Fresh Step
Fresh Step's site tells a kinder story (7 of 9), which we display but leave out of the count. At Target, 27% of reviews also call it dusty.
Fresh Step
Owners split down the middle on tracking. Smell control is the bright spot, praised in 40% of reviews.
World's Best
31% of reviews praise the clumps, but litter on the floor is a frequent complaint, and 28% also call it dusty.
World's Best
12% say their cat avoided it, and 33% call it dusty. Tracking aside, smell is a frequent complaint at 42%.
Arm & Hammer
Owners mostly said it tracked. Smell control splits them too, with 32% praising it and 38% saying odor came through.
Tidy Cats
19% like how light it is and 20% praise the smell control, but tracking dominates the reviews.
The 7 products ranked here carry 53,832 reviews at Target. We read the newest reviews of each product (up to a thousand per listing), kept the ones that talk about tracking, and counted up to 40 per product, posted between May 2018 and Sep 2026.
A review counts only when the reviewer used the product themselves. We drop reviews written in exchange for a free product or a sweepstakes entry (1 on this page), and products that are no longer sold.
Target also shows reviews first posted on brands' own websites. We show them on product cards but never count them, because brand-site reviews run more positive than store reviews of the same products.
Because we searched for the problem, people who had it are overrepresented. Compare products with each other rather than reading a share as your own odds.
We count what pet owners report. Nothing here is veterinary advice: if a pet stops eating, gets sick or keeps scratching, ask your vet.
Amazon buttons appear only on products that most pet owners here say fix the problem (at least 60%, with enough reviews to trust it). Everything else gets no buy link.
An AI model labels each review against a fixed list of points, and we spot-check the labels before publishing. We publish counts, never the reviews themselves.
Arm & Hammer Slide Easy Clean-Up Litter has the best record (13 of 15), though from a small group. Fresh Step Odor Shield Multi-Cat Litter comes next at 11 of 18.
Not clearly. Fresh Step Crystals Premium Cat Litter, the crystal litter here, splits owners at 19 of 37, behind two clumping litters.
Owners say it often does: 13 of 35 said it stayed in the box, and World's Best Clumping Formula does a bit worse at 7 of 22.
Start with the litter, since owners on this page report big differences between brands. A litter mat by the box catches what sticks to paws, and a box with higher sides keeps kicked litter in.
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