Yesterday I set up an appointment to meet with a new cat sitter for Toby, our beloved tabby. While showing Alison, the pet sitter, where Toby’s food and litter are, I mentioned to her that we were out of his Swheat cat litter, a flushable cat litter made from wheat. I suppose I felt a bit guilty since we are using a scented clay kind of litter. Well, Alison informed me that animals in the Chesapeake Bay were having cases of toxoplasmosis, and were dying, in part due to the fact that cat poop was entering our water supply and polluting it. She then suggested that we use biodegradable bags or paper lunch bags to collect our cat’s poop with, and then to either toss the bags into the woods behind our house or to compost it. I’m pretty sure our HOA wouldn’t approve of the tossed cat poop in the woods, but I am sure that by using paper lunch bags instead of plastic grocery bags to collect the litter, the litter will have a better and faster rate to decompose.
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