[SustainableTompkins] cat litter and toxoplasmosis

[Mark Darling]

Yes, it is possible to toilet train a cat:
http://www.citikitty.com/?gclid=COKdwOLSm5ECFQ6CPAod7FYdOA

Mark Darling
Program Coordinator
Recycling/Resource Management
201 Facilities Building
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-274-1777

"We cannot solve the problems that we have created with the same thinking
that created them."
 - Albert Einstein


> Fellow cat owners (there are a lot of us, eh?):
> I might be wrong about this, but I believe you can have your cat(s) tested
> to see if they are carriers of toxoplasmosis, possibly alleviating or
> confirming that particular concern about your kitty compost. I never
> worried
> too much about toxo. except during my pregnancy, when my husband dutifully
> handled scooping/cleaning/kitty-compost-handling chores.
> To give slightly more detail, our current (outside of city) system is: we
> use pine pellet litter, we scoop poops daily and bury in designated hole
> (i.e. "kitty latrine") far from house/garden/well/etc. We empty the rest
> into a cat-litter-designated compost pile weekly, adding enough green
> materials to help it break down, and using the resulting compost in
> non-edible areas (which is somewhat challenging, as we're endeavoring to
> turn our entire two acres into more-or-less edible areas!).
> In the city the compost system was the same, but we flushed the poops.
> I tend not to be overly worried about pathogens, etc, and I might consider
> using the cat compost in an orchard area or something like that, but I
> still
> haven't brought myself to using it in the actual veggie garden.
> On a related note, is someone out there actually using wood pellets (meant
> for burning) as cat litter? It sounds a lot more economical if it is
> basically the same stuff, which I am imagining it is, just compressed
> sawdust, right?
> On another related, though probably wildly impractical note, I have heard
> (probably, tall) tales of cats trained to use the toilet!
> -Kristie
>
>
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