She explained that her sand pile outside was frozen and that she’d tried to use ashes, but her kitty was tracking them all over the house.Įd offered her something else–a mixture of clay minerals called Fuller’s Earth, which has the capability to absorb its weight in liquid. This changed in January 1947, when a frustrated cat owner asked her neighbor, inventor and entrepreneur Ed Lowe, for some sand to use for her cat’s litter. When it was necessary to keep a cat exclusively indoors, their owner used ashes, dirt, or sand as cat litter–not the most hygienic or mess-free of materials. Many domestic cats lived as barn and alley cats, or were kept indoors during the day and put outside at night. The Dawn of Kitty Litter and the Indoor Catīedding and litter boxes for cats prior to the late 1940s were simple, as cats weren’t typically kept inside of a home. However, it was in the 1940s, two decades before Crow patented his new cat tree, that the first real advancement in the aesthetics and ease of cat ownership came along with the invention of clay cat litter, a product which allowed cat lovers to keep their pets indoors exclusively for the first time.
The invention of the ‘cat tree’ in the late 1960s as a type of cat-specific furniture caused a sea change in the types of play and comfort items available for cats. In the United States however, domestic cats had yet to become the household pet we know and love. Nowadays, the pedestals are baroque cat trees, floating shelves and perches, and interior walls featuring lofted bridges and walkways, crafted from myriad combinations of fabrics, ropes, and wood that would have dazzled Frank Crow, the inventor of the original cat tree.Ĭats in the UK had already spent a few decades as a pampered pet and show animal by the 1940s. The ancient Egyptians were the first to put cats on a pedestal.
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