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A sandbox your cat rents out, and you clean for free.
means An indoor tray filled with absorbent material where a cat relieves itself, sparing everyone the alternative of the carpet.
from Straightforward compound: 'litter' meaning scattered loose material (originally bedding straw for animals, from Old French 'litiere,' ultimately tied to Latin 'lectus,' bed) plus 'box,' the container. The leap from 'bedding straw' to 'absorbent granules cats pee in' happened in the mid-20th century once commercial clay litter was invented — before that, cats mostly just went outside and judged you from a distance.
- instinct origin
- wild cats bury waste to hide from predators
- capacity rule
- one box per cat, plus one extra
- clumping clay
- swells to many times its dry size
- avoidance signal
- skipping the box often means pain, not spite