Cat Litter : Clay-Based Cat Litter

Cat litter is a fairly modern product. Even though cats have been human companions for nearly 10,000 years[1], it was only this past century that we started bringing them indoors with us fulltime. Prior to World War II, cat parents used boxes of sand or furnace ashes as indoor toilets for their felines — but that solution proved undesirable. “Housewives of the 1940s were none too enamored with cats tracking ashes or sand through their homes,” says the ASPCA.   Fortunately, an effective solution was discovered shortly after World War II. A businessman named Edward Lowe recommended that a neighbor fill a box with absorbent, granulated clay — a mineral Lowe’s father’s company used as an industrial absorbent. The neighbor found that the clay was successful in absorbing her cat’s urine, as well as at reducing both tracking and odor.   About.com notes, “In 1947, Edward Lowe decided to package the clay in 5lb bags marked ‘kitty litter’ to sell in a local pet store.” Mr. Lowe was soon able to transform this discovery into an empire we now know as Kitty Litter.   Source : https://www.petfinder.com/   #AlleyCat #CatLitter