[Greenbuilding] Composting cat shit

Tue Feb 24 08:46:06 CST 2009

All of a sudden I feel like I need to take a shower.

> Right on and perhaps closer to the truth than many of us want to believe.
> These ecosystems of "ours" we have named as individual humans operate in
> wonder furry ways wherein we all serve each other. Just think about it the
> average healthy human ecosystem has approximately 4000 other species 
> living
> on and in them and without many of them we would not exist. In total they
> (we) comprise this wonderful local ecosystem we call human. The number on
> non human cellular creatures outnumber the human cells about 10:1. The
> number of ancestral retroviruses that have integrated into our DNA and 
> which
> control a significant degree of gene expression that makes us look and
> behave as we do number in the millions per cell. Virtually all of these
> species however are not green but rather heterotrophs living off the
> downgraded solar energy we supply them. Whatever "we" us list members are!
>
> How's that for off topic
>
> Don
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J Messerschmidt [mailto:j.messerschmidt at verizon.net]
> Sent: February-23-09 9:11 PM
> To: don lush; 'Racheli Gai'; 'List Greenbuilding'
> Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Composting cat shit
>
> You mean my brain has been infected?  A purrasite you say?  To make us
> docile and feed them and clean up their... poop?  So I can get more
> parasites and clean up their furballs and their puke?
>
>
> Oh but that soft furry belly...
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "don lush" <dlush at ca.inter.net>
> To: "'Racheli Gai'" <racheli at sonoracohousing.com>; "'List Greenbuilding'"
> <greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 4:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Composting cat shit
>
>
> Racheli- You may want to check out Toxoplasma gondii which is a protozoan
> parasite that infects muscle and nervous tissue. Its natural life cycle is
> to infect the brains of mice where it causes them to lose their fear of 
> cats
> so that the cats can eat the mice. The cats then defecate and then new 
> mice
> eat the feces and become infected ensuring the survival of the parasite an
> completion of its life cycle.  Recent research has shown that 
> approximately
> 70% of cat owners carry the antibody to this parasite meaning that they 
> are
> infected (most are a symptomatic).  Recent research has shown that this
> parasite can affect behaviour in humans as well as causing spontaneous
> abortion in pregnant women.
>
> Just google Toxoplasma gondii human behaviour and it may give you some
> additional insight into the behaviour of cat owners!
>
> Don
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: greenbuilding-bounces at listserv.repp.org
> [mailto:greenbuilding-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Racheli Gai
> Sent: February-23-09 2:41 PM
> To: List Greenbuilding
> Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Composting cat shit
>
> DH,
> Can you provide references on the issue of cat feces as the cause of
> blindness?
> I'm very interested in this issue.
>
> Thankd!
> Racheli.
>
>
> On Feb 23, 2009, at 12:24 PM, YankeePerm at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Cats transmit several diseases to humans in their feces, including the
>> leading cause of blindness in American children.   (Sandboxes look
>> like a luxury
>> toilet to a cat.)   Domestic cats are what Mollison calls a Type 1
>> error, a
>> decision from which you can never recover fully.   I suggest burying
>> all cat feces
>> (including that still inside the cat) somewhere that you eventually
>> plant a
>> tree (to prevent its excavaton).   Vermicomposting and hot composting
>> may well
>> get rid of some of the pathogens, but I'd not want the product on or
>> near the
>> surfact of my soil.   I'd guess that vermicomposting has the greatest
>> chance of
>> effectiveness (since people are going to keep right on harboring these
>> infestations).
>>
>> DH
>>
>> In a message dated 2/20/09 5:12:08 PM, racheli at sonoracohousing.com
>> writes:
>>
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The nice thing is that this is a resource which otherwise is hard to
>>>> compost, and also feels nice underfoot. And if the cat takes a dump,
>>>> you can chuck it in the compost and add some more.
>>>>
>>> I wouldn't put cat shit in the compost.
>>>
>>> Racheli.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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