While We're Doing Updates...

You may remember the Feline Pine experiment, in which I detailed our eagerness to abandon traditional clay-based cat litters for a variety of health and hygienic and environmental reasons. Well, to make a long story short...we did end up with a liberal amount of sawdust tracked around (though to be fair, we had all hardwood floors at the other apartment, making it much more obvious), and Matt felt like it didn't keep odor down as well as, say, Tidy Cats Small Spaces, which is what we reverted back to and use currently (in an effort to keep track of which of the many brands/varieties to buy when we're at the store, we conveniently created a jingle to the tune of Wide Open Spaces by the Dixie Chicks). I don't know whether I agree, but it's a co-venture and so we want to find something we can both get behind.

I know this is incredibly crazy-sounding, but we keep debating whether we could just toilet-train the cats. Resources on the Internet abound, and it seems like we might be good candidates because first of all, our cats are pretty consistent about using the litterbox, regardless of contents or location; and second, we have very few guests, and so the concern over the door being closed/the lid being down/ someone being offended should we be lucky enough to find cat pee/poop in the toilet, is pretty low. It's usually just the two of us, and we'd be more inclined to applaud and then post a picture on the blog.

So...we'll see. Right now it's still in the talking stages.