In article >,
Priscilla Ballou > wrote:

> In article >,
> Katra > wrote:
>
> > In article >,
> > Dave Smith > wrote:
>
> > > You and I know that, but some people just can't get over that, sterilized
> > > or not, it is shit.
> >
> > True... but as I said in my last post, most veggies, especially organic
> > veggies, are also grown in composted animal shit! Usually from
> > vegetarian mammals. We discuss this kind of stuff on the gardening lists
> > all the time.
>
> When I bought my house 6 years ago and started my organic vegie
> gardening "career" I had a source for "zoo doo." A local
> soil/compost/etc. company had a contract with the local zoo for all the
> herbivore manure, which they then composted. So I was gardening with
> gazelle and giraffe manure! No elephants', I'm afraid.

Mmm, too bad. :-)
I've heard that Elephant manure is some of the best fertilizer on the
planet!

>
> > Most people reserve predator (cat and dog) manure for flower beds
> > supposedly because of disease transmission, but predator manure is
> > usually _much_ higher in nitrogen than horse, cow or chicken manure so
> > it's best to compost it for about a year before using it.
>
> The colony of feral cats which I and my neighbors help support doesn't
> pay any heed to whether the bed they're using as a litter box is growing
> vegies or flowers, I'm afraid. To a cat, I think any raised bed *is* a
> litter box.

<grins> too true!

>
> If there were an easy way to attract them to a non-cultivated bit of my
> yard, I might do it, though. I wonder if dumping some of my indoor
> cats' used litter in a spot would attract the other cats to use that
> area or repell them. Hmmmm.
>
> Priscilla

Easy. Seriously, plant a nice bed of catnip/catmint plants!
Valerian attracts them too.

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