heffelfinger@raven1.DEC (09/16/85)
The disease that you are all talking about in conjunction with the litter box and pregnant women is toxoplasmosis. It is carried by the litter but according to my sources is not a danger until the feces has been stting around for over 24 hours thus "scooping" the box every day makes the chances of infection very slim. Not only that, but not all cat feces carries this disease. It is transmitted to cats through raw meat. SO if your cat is an indoor cat who cannot catch birda and mice and so on and you don't feed it raw meat, I wouldn't worry about it. (Although, if I ever get pregnant, you can sure bet that I'll use it as an excuse not to do the litter boxes!) AS far as the compost is concerned, diseases aside, I don't think the cat poop will do anything but bad. As I understand it, herbivore manure, particularly cow and horse are good but carnivores are no good and omnivores are almost as bad. Tracey Heffelfinger aka "Mom" to Merry, Pippin, Sam, Cinnamon, Gandalf, and Nazzie. Digital Equipment Corp. Greenvilles, S.C.