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Hey CT what kind of kitty litter did you say your cat preferred? I have a couple of pet supply catalogs that are geared mostly towards dogs, but some of them have "gourmet" kitty litter too. I was wondering if it was your brand and if it was lower priced than the stores.
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Hey, this reminds me, can someone post those pictures of cats using the toilet? They were freaking hi-larious. Posts: 13123 | Registered: Feb 2002
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silica is different than silicon which is different than silicone. Silicon is sand. The rest are more chemically interesting. I think sillica and silicone may be related because silica is a water absorbing substance that does turn into a gel eventually.
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Now I know a little bit more...and knowing is half the battle.
Banna, someone posted some pictures of cats using the toilet many moons a go on this forum. I think they were probably the funniest pictures I've ever seen.
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I might regret bringing this up, but as a person who has had both a cat and a dog at the same time in the past, your original message made me do a double take.
See, I learned early with much disgust that I had to place the litter box in a place the dog couldn't get to. As other pet owners have assured me, this is common.
See, dogs seem to just love to raid those boxes - after they've been in use awhile. Made me wonder what is in the kitty litter labeled "gourmet" in a dog-oriented supply catalog. Posts: 4344 | Registered: Mar 2003
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Yeah, it comes pre-pooped. Maybe the catalog people discovered a way to make money from it instead of just throwing it away. They probably have persian cats or some rare breed. Tabby cat poop would just be for uncouth dogs.
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Um, AJ, the primary component of sand is silicon dioxide -- also known as silica. Fuse it, and get glass. Add sodium oxides to it, and you get a gel which is a great desiccant. It's the stuff in the little packets that come with everything, and say not to eat them. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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OH and I don't have cats, which is why I've never encountered the canine ingestion issue. But CT and I had an adventure buying kitty litter and some other stuff at the grocery store, which was why I thought of her.
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Several years ago, our company was hired to test a new cat litter. Some poor young engineer fresh out of college got to spend hours a day squirting ammonia or something in various litter mixes to test the clumping action.
For some reason, she didn't find the lumps of clay rolled up like Tootsie Rolls that we left in the litter funny after the 3rd or 4th time. No sense of humor.
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What a timely thread! The cat who has adopted us has been spending more and more time inside, now that winter is approaching, and we've been thinking that we should get a cat box and some litter before it gets really cold (she's pretty good about asking to go outside, but I doubt that she'll keep it up once there are a couple of inches of snow on the ground).
Actually, though, I can't shake the suspicion that she has several families that she's adopted; her absences seem to occur with a certain clockwork precision that suggests that we've got her on Monday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, and some other family has her Tuesday, Thursdays, and Friday. That would match with her personality, actually. When she's in the house, she seems to be very careful to sit on my lap for 20 minutes, then switch to C's lap for 20 minutes, back and forth.
I'd forgotten how great it was having a cat.
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