Cat litter
Dr. Frazier
Paper
4/30/12
Cat Litter Chemistry
This information was provided by the United States of American Pet Products Manufactures Association. There are about seventy seven million owned cats in the United States of America. Thirty- four percent of United States of America households own at least one cat. Most people on average have two cats. Eighty- four percent of owned cats are spayed or neutered. This indicates there is a big market for pet products, which includes cat litter.
Cat litter was founded by Edward Lowe in 1947. A neighbor was tired of her cat tracking ashes all over the house. She asked one of her friends to ask Edward Lowe for some sand. Lowe owned an absorbent company and he told her to try clay instead. After she tries the clay he told her to give the clay to other people to try it with their cats which started the big business of cat litter. Before it became a big business people doubted that anyone would pay good money for cat litter, so he started to give it out for free.
The litter contained clay called Fuller’s earth. That was a whole new way of making cat litter because back in the day they used the environment such as sand, dirt, and ashes. This was such an inconvenience that it tracked and destroyed many people’s homes. Fuller’s earth clay helped absorb urine better than the ashes, sand or dirt. Fuller’s earth is actually a catchall term for a chemically diverse set of absorbent clay minerals capable of absorbing their weight in water. Fuller’s earth litter can get rid of some of the ammonia odor by trapping the positively charged ammonium ions that are formed when water in urine penetrates the ammonia. To improve odor control the cat litter used things such as baking soda to absorb the smells, and antibacterial agents to kill odor- causing bacteria.
The only thing wrong with Fuller’s earth was that it would leek to the bottom and sit there, so making it tedious to clean the cat litter lot but less often them sand, dirt
Paper
4/30/12
Cat Litter Chemistry
This information was provided by the United States of American Pet Products Manufactures Association. There are about seventy seven million owned cats in the United States of America. Thirty- four percent of United States of America households own at least one cat. Most people on average have two cats. Eighty- four percent of owned cats are spayed or neutered. This indicates there is a big market for pet products, which includes cat litter.
Cat litter was founded by Edward Lowe in 1947. A neighbor was tired of her cat tracking ashes all over the house. She asked one of her friends to ask Edward Lowe for some sand. Lowe owned an absorbent company and he told her to try clay instead. After she tries the clay he told her to give the clay to other people to try it with their cats which started the big business of cat litter. Before it became a big business people doubted that anyone would pay good money for cat litter, so he started to give it out for free.
The litter contained clay called Fuller’s earth. That was a whole new way of making cat litter because back in the day they used the environment such as sand, dirt, and ashes. This was such an inconvenience that it tracked and destroyed many people’s homes. Fuller’s earth clay helped absorb urine better than the ashes, sand or dirt. Fuller’s earth is actually a catchall term for a chemically diverse set of absorbent clay minerals capable of absorbing their weight in water. Fuller’s earth litter can get rid of some of the ammonia odor by trapping the positively charged ammonium ions that are formed when water in urine penetrates the ammonia. To improve odor control the cat litter used things such as baking soda to absorb the smells, and antibacterial agents to kill odor- causing bacteria.
The only thing wrong with Fuller’s earth was that it would leek to the bottom and sit there, so making it tedious to clean the cat litter lot but less often them sand, dirt