I understand what you mean about cats not liking to have their litter switched, but since I do rescue and house multiple cats, both mine and fosters, I always give a SELECTION of litter, all of which needs to be acceptable to ME first. I can't stand ANY scent in litter because even when it starts out smelling fine, when it mixes with cat chemicals, it becomes nauseating. Second, it has to be basically healthy, i.e. NO DUST, silica, or other irritants. Even pine dust is an irritant. Third, because of the volume I go through, it needs to be economical. And fourth, because I haul my own garbage to the dump, it can't be basically too heavy., so if I'm buying 40 pounds, it needs to have a lot of volume, and better not be able to fit in a little bucket! FINALLY, it must also be acceptable to most of the cats. This corn cob horse bedding fits all those requirements. I introduced it by just adding a few boxes of it in the litter box area to see if they used it. They did. Then of course gave it time and saw how well it lasted and absorbed and clumped, how it was to clean and to haul away. That was fine too. The ONLY thing I like better about the pine pellets is the smell. I like the fresh pine smell, so I will always have at least one box with pine pellets in every room whether they use it or not. So dont change your cat's litter, just ADD a few boxes temporarily to see if they, and you, like the other. As for the bugs, I have heard a LOT of people complain about the bugs in the chicken crumbles. It probably depends on your local bugs and how open to the outside you are. Might be fine in a closed up apartment, but I KNOW I'd have bugs in mine because I have to even keep thingslike flour in plastic bags or else it gets bugs. I'm in the south and in the woods. Itty bitty bugs come right through the screens in the warm seasons.