Cats and pets generally are vital to many people's happiness and I find your
remarks offensive. Animals do have feelings, as do people who care for them.

"Jock" wrote in message
...
I suppose I just have issues with cats in general and the thought of using
their biproducts as a growth promoter is a bit 'out there' for me. In my
experience, cats *can* be made beneficial to the garden. Simply bury one
at
the base of each citrus tree each year and the fruit will be loverley!
That's about the end of their usefulness as I see it and if every
Australian
applied that method of gardening, it would be no time before there were no
cats around.. - that has to be good for Australia.
Jock

"Tish Silberbauer" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 23 May 2003 03:05:23 GMT, "Jock"
wrote:

Look here b4 you dine on the food grown from pussy cat's waste products
or
even handle said stuff:
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/foodsafety/toxo.html
Jock

Toxoplasmosis is a concern for some people and should be taken
seriously (which is why we flush the cat's solid waste rather than
composting it), but for most people it is not a problem (taken from
the web site above). You need to keep some perspective about the
risk from urine-soaked kitty litter.

Nowhere in the literature do I see any suggestion that the parasite is
harboured on plants, so washing the soil off root vegetables and any
leaves or fruit with soil on them would ensure that you are not
bringing the parasite into your home from the veggie patch.

Tish


"Tish Silberbauer" wrote in message
.. .
We have the same issue. We use the pelletized paper kitty litter.
We
flush the solid waste down the loo and put the remainder in the
compost, where it eventually breaks down into lovely compost (our
compost pile is not hot enough and everything seems to take forever
to
break down). We also find that flushing the solid waste each day (or
twice a day sometimes) makes the rest of the litter last much longer.

Tish