Green Cat Litter (article)

Here's a great article written by Madeleine of http://www.nzecochick.com .  She offers some good solutions for greening your cat litter that are worth checking out.  Take it away, Madeleine! If you have a cat (or like me you don’t have a cat but when my family goes away our home is the cat hotel for them) you have to deal with cat poop. If you have a cat door this is easy as they just go poop outside, normally in a new section of garden where you have planted seeds. Grr. Cats are great pets but boy can they be destructive and annoying. Not to mention their impact on the bird population! If you have an indoor cat or don’t have a cat door or your cat sleeps inside you’ll…

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Can You Use Compost As Cat Litter?

You may recall that I recently had an article posted about whether or not it's a good idea to compost your cat litter.  This time, I'm flipping it around to "can you use your compost as cat litter?" Let me remind you that I don't own a cat...I merely deal with them crapping all over the side of my house and I'm basically okay with that.  Working with waste all the time means I don't smell much of anything anyway.  Here's a photo of the gifts that the alley cats leave for me: I have a feeling these cats would have no problem using compost in their litter box, if they had one.  I have not observed these cats seeking out my compost in the (fenced off) backyard to sit…

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