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Kudos to Massachusetts on becoming the eighth state to adopt a bottle bill [Nov. 30]. During our summer clean-up campaign we found beverage containers far surpassed paper-type litter. No matter what the bottle industry claims, their product has made our beautiful Arizona desert the garbage pit of America...
...Americans lavish little art but elaborate care on their cats. It may have been a technological breakthrough that made cat tending less onerous and fueled all this attention. Explains one close observer of the animal universe, Boston Veterinarian Jean Holzworth: "When you talk about convenience, the advent of cat litter is comparable to the invention of the electric light bulb." Litter boxes are now big-selling staples in pet stores. They cost from $2.50 to $34.95. Some of them are kick-proof and odor-proof. The latest behavior-modification device is Kitty Whiz, a potty trainer that purportedly teaches Puss...
...keeps changing, but always the house seethes with prowling felines. They have taken over couches, chairs, beds, sinks and tubs. They perch on the stairway, roost on the bookcase, snooze in the laundry basket. They also occupy the dining room table, and the childless Milsters no longer eat there. Litter pans crowd the walls, the halls and the corners. Food and water bowls are set out in odd places. Cats suffering from infectious diseases inhabit the kitchen. A dozen of the menagerie are cripples, three are one-eyed, one is a dwarf, and one has been classified as a homosexual...
...exactly the all-American couple," says Conrad, but they may be the all-American cat lovers. Indeed, Phyllis' entire salary as a Pratt purchasing agent-$350 a week-goes for vet bills and supplies. The weekly delivery of 24 cases of cat food and 140 Ibs. of litter alone costs $300. Says Phyllis: "We've had to give up a lot of privileges. It's like a trust or a duty...
...clients are recently married women whose pets cannot share affection with the new spouse. One miffed feline regularly urinated on the new husband's side of the bed, and another defecated each morning on the newlywed's breakfast chair. Such formidable expressions of pique are called "aberrant litter behavior" in the animal-psych biz, and Hamilton, a Freud of felines, goes at a cure like the master himself. Says she: "I try to find out if the animal came from a household where the litter pans were clean, if the mama cat taught her kittens well and what...