Road Runner Pet Friendly Ice Melt, 9lb Jug

This ice melt helped melt the ice leftover after snowblowing and digging out of the blizzard of 2026 south of Boston. We had 24" of snow ( my husband is a meteorologist so he keeps track of each storm total) and still had a layer of ice on all the pavement around our house This softened it enough that we could use a spade to get down to clear pavement so it would not be too slippery. I've had 2 hip replacements, 1 due to a fracture and one to arthritis so I'm forbidden by my Ortho specialist to walk on any slippery surfaces! Anyway, this works great and we intend to buy more after the snowy season and keep it on hand for next years first storm! 5 stars! Highly recommend it. Our pets are indoor cats so their paws weren't an issue, but it's supposed to be pet-friendly. Linneaann

I buy a couple of containers of Road Runner Pet Friendly Ice Melt every year well ahead of the first snows here in So-Colorado. This year I've been unable to find it locally, so I decided to make my purchase online via Walmart. I expect the ice melt to work as well as ever, without killing animals, but the delivery was very messy. The containers came open during shipping and spilled about half the contents into the box. Fortunately, the box was exceptionally well packed and I was able to recover most of what was in the box (made quite a mess and some of the crystals liquified for some reason [I don't want to know] and I ended up with about two cups more than the containers could hold [did the spillage begin from other containers before mine even shipped or did the crystals expand or . . . ? If the latter, I don't want to know, I don't want to know, I don't want to know . . . ]). Now the containers won't close very securely at all (won't click closed, remain slightly open) but I'm all set for ice melt this winter. I'm annoyed only about the mess, which could have been avoided with a couple of lengths of good quality packing tape or if the manufacturer could come up with more secure container lids.