The Straight Poop on Cat Litter

I have 6 adult cats -- here's our system:

• 2 large "Nature's Miracle" corner litterboxes

• Sustainably Yours litter from PetFood Express

  • Clumps SUPER hard

  • Can be sifted with standard wire mesh sieve to get any small bits (like this one )

• I scoop morning & night, and in between as needed. I do not dump unless there's really a lot of little bits in the litter that I can't sift out with the wire mess sifter. I clean the litterboxes monthly with hot boiling water and bleach.

• I use "biodegradable" bags (box of 1000 bags) and they go in the trash but I keep thinking about digging a hole to create a pet waste digester in the backyard

In the last 30 years as an adult living on my own - I have gone through MANY many kinds of cat litter.

• Clay is bad - mountain top removal and all that

• Large pellets are a PITA and a mess, they fall apart

• Never flush unless you have a septic system; else the risk is that organisms from cat poop end up leaving water treatment plants where they go to rivers and oceans and KILL OTTERS. You don't want to kill otters, right? Didn't think so.

• Corn & Wheat have had variable results for me over the years - not clumping hard enough, powdery mess tracked everywhere, fermented smell that develops.

QUILT PROEJCT: 50 Fabulous Paper pieced Stars

In 2011, I bought this book (with CD!) and pre-cut fabric for 12 stars from a quilt store in SE Oregon - and have sat on it for 10 years.  I have never done paper piecing and it seemed like it would be too fussy and a PITA.  I've just picked it up again and I'm really glad that I did because:  the software to read the patterns on the CD is obsolete!  I had to export them all as PDFs but a couple of them didn't want to behave - so I had help from a friend who had a lot of older operating systems and now I have a full set of 50 PDFs for each star in the book.  

I'm starting this project as a travel project - so follow along on the tag "50FPPS" for details.