...that kitty litter was first marketed as nesting material for chickens?

A man named Ed Lowe gave the name kitty litter to a product that was manufactured by a company his family had. The product was made out of dried clay as it was first intended to be used in industries. Ed Lowe attempted to market the kitty litter to chicken farmers as nesting material but failed.

At the same time a woman named Kay Draper was looking for sand as the pile she usually took her sand from had frozen during the winter. She tried to use ashes instead but it proved to be too messy, she also gave sawdust a go but even that didn't work as well as the sand. In search of sand she went to the Lowe factory where she met Ed Lowe.

Ed convinced her to try the chicken nesting material and told her it would be a better absorbant of cat waste than sand. Kay tried it and loved it! She told all her friends about it and came back for more. Ed then took the initiative and packaged the dried clay in bags, hoping to sell them. To his disappointment, no one would buy it so he gave it away to a local pet shop. The customers in that shop loved it and were willing to pay for it. Ed then took his clay and sold it on to other pet shops and the sales boomed. A private investment group called Golden Cat gave Ed an offer he couldn't turn down and after that Ed retired, Ed dies in 1995, leaving behind a legacy of cat litter that domiates the market at 55% and a n industry of cat foods, toys and other things for cat lovers!

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