Thinking Outside the Box

Sometimes you see something on a regular basis and you lose sense of how weird it really is. Like litter boxes for example. Who was the first person to realize that a housecat would only do its business in a box filled with sand? Before litter boxes, were cats often found crapping at the beach, and that's how they put two and two together?

That's what's crazy about owning a cat. Not only do you get to buy sand for them to soil, you get to dig through the sand to find their leavings. And this whole thing about cats burying their droppings; how pathetic and untrue is that? Have you ever, in all honesty, seen a used litter box looking pristine? We'd all like to think cats are stealthy clever creatures who cover their tracks, but they are so sloppy and careless that they never actually cover up anything. Most of the time they just shuffle the dirt around, dig a moat for their "loaf", and track litter everywhere.