Sure, many negative things emerged from
the Soviet Union: abysmal customer service, frightening post offices, hideous
architecture from the 1960s onwards... but I remain convinced that the worst
holdover from the Soviet Union is the cat pee box. While in the West we
developed litter boxes filled with a variety of clumping, odor controlling cat
litter, covered litter boxes and even self-flushing litter boxes, the former Soviet
Union gives you this horrid contraption:
Pleasant, huh? And I bet you can guess how
wonderful this contraption is at odor control. Now there *is* kitty litter to
be found here; however, thus far I have only located it in one store at an
outrageous price – something like $21 for a mere couple of pounds! I have three
cats; at that price, I’d be spending my entire salary on litter. Instead I’ve
opted for the following method of odor control:
Ok, so perhaps this isn’t the best
solution, but it improves the air quality of my apartment a little. You know,
as opposed to raw, uncovered cat pee. Then of course, there is the problem that
the cats don’t like to use the box if it has recently been used. They prefer to
go outdoors, but I'm not exactly skilled at waking up to let them out in the
middle of the night. After several mornings of awakening to a puddle near my
front door, I have resorted to this as well:
I really must find some affordable kitty
litter, if at all possible. Of course, it it’s anything like the litter I found
in Russia, it might very well mix with cat pee to form a cement so solid that
it cannot be cleaned out of the box. (Obviously, I have given up on the idea of
pretending I don't have cats by keeping the litter box outside.)
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