creative cat litter

and unseen connections

It’s odd where we learn lessons at times.

Take cat litter for example.

There are many brands and styles ranging from clay based clumping sand to silicone crystals.

We’re a bit strange around these parts.

We get our cat litter from the woodstove section of the big box hardware store.

Best of all? We don’t pay sales tax.

How?

Well, heating fuel isn’t taxed were I live.

No.

The cats are not dropping turds into the natural gas line.

We use the wood pellets - fuel for a pellet stove as cat litter.

In addition to being considerably less expensive than the litter they sell in stores, it has the added bonus of escaping the tax people.

There are some drawbacks however. In order to make it last longer, the turds need to be scooped. Unlike regular kitty litter that would clog the pipes, you don’t need to worry about this when using wood pellets.

Given that we can scoop it, we do scoop it.

Because we’re cheap, we feel compelled to scoop the poop regularly rather than merely dumping all the feline dumping at …