Feline Earth Day Passover Extravaganza
Welcome to our Feline Earth Day and Passover Extravaganza.
We love double holidays or triple. The more the merrier and we’re celebrating with lots of fun cat photos. We’re big a tree-hugging, earth-loving bunch and love celebrating the joys, mysteries, and wonder of our precious planet every day. Loving the Earth is about respect and honor or as our cats might say: don’t poop where you eat. Honoring doesn’t mean going all crunchy granola and wearing vegan shoes (nothing wrong with walking your talk) but simply by treating our planet with the respect and awareness of her finite resources.
Pick up litter someone careless left behind. We’re a disposable-loving nation and in the U.S. every year, the average person throws out about 4.6 pounds of garbage every day. The numbers are adding up and according to the World Bank, global waste is estimated to triple by 2100. A stinky situation which made us think about cat litter.
Did you know used clumping clay cat litter won’t biodegrade in the landfill, at least not in our lifetime? Or that so-called flushable cat litter can clog sewer systems? There doesn’t seem to be an ideal solution but we’re exploring some new options. Going green or eco-friendly is not easy but whoever can come up with a new litter solution deserves a Nobel Prize.
If you can recycle, reduce, reuse, replenish or restore. Watch and improve your carbon footprint. Click to calculate yours. The U.S. average for 2 persons is 53. I thought we scored well with a 28 but the world average is 11!
Odin celebrates Earth Day literally with a dirt bath.
Merlin in his younger days enjoyed rolling in the dirt.
And former feral Domino continues his love affair with Mother Nature.
We usually feature vintage or other black cat art on Fridays and couldn’t resist going green by tweaking an antique Steinlen poster.
Domino loves all kinds of fish. Happy Pesach to our Jewish readers. Of our four cats, only Odin is Jewish, or at least that what my Jewish husband claims.
On a more serious note: to our Jewish readers who would like to feed their cat Kosher for Passover, we compiled a list of Passover Cat Food.
How are you celebrating your Feline Earth Day?
23 Comments
The Swiss Cats
Paws up : you and your mom are doing great for Mother Nature ! Nothing better than a good roll in the dirt ! Happy Earth Day !
easy rider
Happy Earth Day to alll…. I hope we can celebrate this day in 100 years too… but only if we all are good to our planet
Ellen Pilch
I am impressed that there is Kosher cat food. Happy Earth Day and Happy Passover!
meowmeowmans
We got 20, but see some ways in which we can lower our score. Happy Earth Day, and Happy Passover, too!
Layla Morgan Wilde
Wow, that’s impressive!
Layla Morgan Wilde
That’s an amazing low score!
Your Nellie Bellie
Happy Earth Day to all of yous from mes. And especially to Merlin my love.
Me is jealous f the dirt baths…they is my facourinte.
Kisses
Nellie
Layla Morgan Wilde
Nellie, perhaps you and Merlin could have double dirt baths together 🙂
Traveling Cats
Happy Earth Day!
Layla Morgan Wilde
Thanks! We must check out your latest travels.
Layla Morgan Wilde
Flying is a tough because most of us have no choice. Composting is so easy. You may enjoy it.
Maggie
Happy Earth Day. Love the picture of Odin’s dirt bath!
xxoo
Layla Morgan Wilde
Maggie, thanks, and he was doing more than bathing 😉
Cathy Keisha
We got a carbon footprint of 14 cos we don’t own a car and don’t fly. We also recycle everything we can. We used to compost when we had a house but we can’t now. We didn’t know that about cat litter. We figured since it was clay / grass / wheat, it was natural and would break down. I wonder how the new green tea and wood litter fares.
Layla Morgan Wilde
Wow, 14 is amazing. Flying bumps mine up but we went from two cars to one.
caren gittleman
Loved this post!!!!! Cute that you incorporated Passover too! Kosher cat food, who would have “thunk” it?
Layla Morgan Wilde
Thanks, Caren. Happy Pesach!
jansfunnyfarm
No, we did not know that about clumping litter. Clumps of litter stick to the pans and she has to scrape and scrub trying to get it off, so it isn’t welcome here. Happy Earth Day.
Layla Morgan Wilde
Jan, clumping clay is the worst as you mentioned.
The Island Cats
Hmmmm…the mom needs to be a little better about her carbon footprint! Happy Earth Day!
Hannah and Lucy
Mum uses fullers earth clumping litter made of natural clay granules that absorb liquids for easy disposal, This means the littler tray gets scooped several times and replenished only when necessary by using a little more of the clumping litter. The tray only needs to be emptied, cleaned and fresh clumping litter added once a week. Any poops can be scooped and flushed away when necessary.
Skeeter and Izzy
We will definitely have to check our score.
Happy Everything to Everybody!!!!!!
Celebrate it all! There is always something to celebrate and share with others.
Luvs
Skeeter and Izzy and the Feral Gang + Twig & Peanut & Romeo & the Angels >^..^^..^<~
Summer
My humans scored 70, but I think a lot of that came down to my human’s boyfriend flying at least a couple times a month for his work as a musician. Also, they don’t compost… they don’t even know how!