I will start off by saying that “lifting” someones discarded items off the curb on the night before trash pick up is not beneath me. I have gotten a pretty nice wooden entry way table out of the deal before, but that is really about it. My sister, who lives in L.A. scored a surfboard that way. Hey, if it is useful to you and isn’t damaged or gross more power to you for keeping decent stuff out of the landfills.
This past weekend I bought a new litter box for my cats (do you see where this is going?) because the old one, however nice it was, it was almost 2 years old and really would not come clean and odor free even with extensive soaking with Oxy-Clean. So it had to go.
I put the trash out last night and the old dirty, stinky cat box incidentally was placed in the top of the trash in the can
When I was leaving for work this morning, I looked at the garbage can as I was pulling out of the driveway I realized that someone had taken the cat box from the trash can.
I do believe that an old dirty litter box qualifies as something you just do NOT take off a curb prior to it being hauled off to the city dump.
Not everybody is as fastidious as you are. Last night somebody went on his way rejoicing that you saved him from having to buy a litter box at Wal-Mart.
It could have been blown away by a gust of wind, or carried off by curious racoons. I certianly hope it wasn’t taken to a home and used as a litter box, but to each their own I guess.
I can see the use of it for an oil pan or for mixing up dirt. We have a few old “kitten” boxes in the garage for stuff like that. We just didn’t have the room for it, nor did we really need it for such uses.
Plus it reeked of ammonia even after it was cleaned. ew.
It was the Booda Dome cat box. they took both the top and bottom which, were not together in the trash. the bottom was on top then a bag of trash and then the top was underneath. So they had to fish for it.
I just really hope they aren’t going to use it for a cat, not that my cats are all disease ridden or anything, but well, that’s kind of gross.
My stinkiest trash used to end up all down the block. I live near the school and the kids move stuff around on the way home and throw it on people’s lawn or at the tied-up dogs.
Fortunately, now, they switched to a 6am pickup, just when my alarm rings.
I used to volunteer at the school and it would break my heart all the good food kids would toss in the bins outside. I got so I would retrieve it and make a lunch out of bananas, apples inside clean paper bags, etc. No point overfeeding the squirrels
