I hate the kitty litter that makes clouds of dust when you scoop it. I always feel like I should be wearing a mask. Am I breathing in particles of cat poop? Because that stuff can have toxoplasmosis in it. A horrible disease which can lie dormant in the body for years and cause blindness. My dad had it a few years ago. It started off as a brown spot on his field of vision which wouldn't go away. He was on all sorts of horrible medication (steroids etc) and had to have injections in his eye before he was cured. 

Just one more reason not to have cats? 
 
(Someday I'll still take my chances though.)

sharke
I hate the kitty litter that makes clouds of dust when you scoop it. I always feel like I should be wearing a mask. Am I breathing in particles of cat poop? Because that stuff can have toxoplasmosis in it. A horrible disease which can lie dormant in the body for years and cause blindness. My dad had it a few years ago. It started off as a brown spot on his field of vision which wouldn't go away. He was on all sorts of horrible medication (steroids etc) and had to have injections in his eye before he was cured. 

See, I'd never really thought about that. Though, usually, the dust cloud happens when I put new litter in, not when I scoop it. But at any rate, toxic or not, the dust cloud itself is so annoying that I avoid using brands/types which have that problem. 
 
I've recently bought a box of Arm & Hammer Clump and Seal for one of the litters - best I've ever tried. 

 

All the added chemicals in and on our food can do much harm overtime.  We just don't know all the consequences yet.  As soon as we learn that something is bad for us, we yank it from the food chain or slap a label on it.  
We just don't know enough to call all processed food/products safe until a generation has already suffered from it.  
 
Wonderbread was supposed to build bodies in many ways.  It was junk.
Frozen dinners, processed meats and vegetables, sugar laden drinks are all on my doctor's no list.  Any good nutritionist will spell out the benefits of reducing processed food with organic food as you can.  
 
Do I eat all organic?  Hardly.  But I do know the difference between what is good for me and not.  It is then my choice to decide.  :)

Usually I like threads in The Coffee House because of where they are going...but I like this one from the get-go, no pussyfooting around... 13 posts and still on-topic, cat litter. I feel so left out, I have a dog, so nothing to add to the debate....carry on...

Whoever has lived on a small farm, grown vegetables and fruits would probably tell us how tasteless the food we buy on the shelf is compared to what one could grow in his little garden. 
 
I remember when I was a kid how impatient we were for summer to come to be able to grow fresh veggies - because that stuff was so delicious compared to the industrially produced food.
 
Once you get off the industrial junk, you quickly regain your sense of taste - there's just no going back, and I was quick to realize that. It's also weird at first when you start losing veggies and fruits - you realize that these things were never supposed to last you as long as the non-organic stuff does. 

Hehheh Garry said pussy.

 

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