Tidy Cats Lightweight Litter Destroyed My Cat’s Quality of Life for Two Years. Please Read This Before Buying It.

I need to get this out because I genuinely cannot find this information anywhere online, and I wish someone had told me sooner. My cat Lily is 8 years old, otherwise completely healthy, and about two years ago she suddenly developed what appeared to be severe allergies: constant scratching, open wounds, bleeding skin. She was so miserable we had to keep her in a cone for nearly two years straight just to stop her from tearing herself apart. We saw three vets. Including a dermatologist. Every single one suspected food allergies. So we spent two years separating her from our other cat, feeding her prescription hydrolyzed protein food, cycling through elimination diets, and even had her on steroids for some relief. None of it fixed anything. She just kept suffering. Three months ago she suddenly started coughing on top of everything else. This worried me so much and something in my brain clicked on, and I switched her litter from Tidy Cats Lightweight to Dr. Elsey’s Respiratory Relief clumping litter. Her allergies were gone in under a week. Her wounds have fully healed within a month. Two years of my little girl suffering. And literally thousands of dollars in vet bills, medication and prescription diets. And it was the litter the entire time. We have used Tidy Cats Lightweight exclusively since both our cats were kittens. I don’t know if they quietly reformulated it at some point, but something in that product wrecked my cat’s respiratory and skin health for two solid years and not one vet or Google search pointed me toward it, especially cause our other kitty was completely unaffected. If your cat has unexplained allergies, skin issues, or a chronic cough, please also consider your litter.