Even Ultimate Cat Lovers Don’t Know These Feline Facts

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This will come as no surprise to anyone who’s witnessed a cat in a sandbox at the neighborhood park. They pretty much treat it as their own personal litter box. Back in the days before there was commercially-available litter, people used sand or ashes to deal with their pets’ waste.

Then Ed Lowe entered the scene in 1948. He suggested that his neighbor use clay minerals instead of the messy ashes she had been using, and “Kitty Litter” was born. When Lowe died in 1995, his company was worth half a billion dollars.