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From: booter@lll-crg.UUCP (Elaine Richards)
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Subject: Re: Kitty poop in the compost heap?
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Date: Sat, 7-Sep-85 01:43:15 EDT
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Kitty droppings or the feces of anyother carnivorous animal are
a definite nogo for the plants, especially those for human consumption.

Too much uric acid in the ...ahem..stuff can eat away the roots of
popular garden plants.

Also, the litter you use for her box functions by drying the fecal
matter. This is like little non-biodegradable rocks. A sewage engineer
at an SCA event scolded me for placing the little morsels in the bowl
intended for humans. They apparently block screens and sewage control
equipment that is inteded to clean heavy nasties from the H2O.

Put it the garbage and keep you local sewage control people happy.
Also, Science Diet or another low ash cat food will keep her output
small and relatively odorless.



Good luck !

E
*****

P.S. read The Book of the Cat publ. Summit Books, editors are Wright & Walters