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Sea Otters, Great Whites, and Kitty Litter--Oh, My!
This is an interesting story:
Up until 1938, the California Sea Otter was thought to have been extinct--THANKS 18TH CENTURY RUSSIAN FUR TRAPPERS. In 1938, they completed US Highway 1 on the coast of California and a small and extremely tough colony of California Sea Otters was found near Big Sur. Since then, otter populations have been growing steadily and healthily at about 5% a year. That was until 1994 when the population stalled at around 2800 and the otters stopped colonizing new territory. Many people have blamed the population freeze on Great White Sharks. Apparently the otters have colonized most of the kelp bed areas and whenever they try to move into the open water they become susceptible to shark predation.
The sad part about this is that they taste like shit to Great Whites because they are all fur and bone and aren't high enough in fat. Great Whites bite them and then have to spit them out because the act of eating one would burn more calories than are contained in the otter. Us Great Whites call this phenomenon the Great White Paradox(not to be confused with the White Paradox which is that a white person invented the game of Basketball, a game that white people do not excel at). We can't help taking little chomps out of the otters, however, because from underneath, they look like cute little baby seals...which are good to eat.
All of this is bullshit anyway because Great Whites aren't really even responsible for this otter population freeze. People like to blame us for everything. The reason that otters have stopped multiplying is that because with all the toxic shit humans spill in the ocean, otters have reached their population limit. Only so many creatures can live in a sewer. And I mean sewer. One of the main toxic culprits is used kitty litter...NO SHIT. It seems that cats carry a nice little parasite called toxoplasma gondii. Cats seem to do fine with it but it kills otters.
How does it get to the otters? When smart people flush cat shit and kitty litter down the toilet it eventually ends up in the ocean. It appears that the sewage treatment process doesn't kill toxoplasma gondii. SO ASSHOLES, STOP FLUSHING YOUR CAT SHIT AND TROW IT AWAY IN THE GARBAGE! Governor Schwarzenegger just signed a law that makes cat litter manufacturers put warning labels on the bags.
Everyone cares so much about the cute little otters, but are they really that cute?
The otter mating process is one of the most savage in the higher orders of animals. Male otters bite down on the female's nose so violently it often gets bitten off. It is not all that uncommon for the male to hold on to the female for so long that the female drowns. It has been observed that the male otter will mate with dead female otters. THAT'S RIGHT, OTTERS ARE INTO NECROPHILIA!!!
Read more about sharks, otters, and kitty litter--Here.
A biter, not a fighter,
--Sharky
technorati tags: California Sea Otters, Great White Sharks, Cats, Parasitic Infection, Kitty Litter, Arnold Schwarzenegger, environmental regulations, endangered species
11 comments
Comment from: G. "otter" Winters [Visitor] 
Hey asshole, I personally don't want to live near a landfill full of cat shit.
Throwing it down the toilet and through a WASTE!!! TREATMENT!!! facility will at least clean it up so that it is less harmfull to ALL!!! living creatures. Think about that, safer for all creatures.
Sharks have very small brains. If you can't think it out for yourself and just parrot what you are told, give up the blog.
Throwing it down the toilet and through a WASTE!!! TREATMENT!!! facility will at least clean it up so that it is less harmfull to ALL!!! living creatures. Think about that, safer for all creatures.
Sharks have very small brains. If you can't think it out for yourself and just parrot what you are told, give up the blog.
04/04/07 @ 16:39
Comment from: sharky [Member]
Dear G. "otter" Winters:
At first I thought you were a friend of mine just trying to screw with me, but then I re-read your comment and I realized that you aren't one of my friends because my friends are too smart to write things that dumb. I could post countless links that would prove you wrong, but it would be a good exercise for your constipated shit-brain to do the research on your own.
The truth is that "WASTE!!! TREATMENT!!!" facilities, as you so loudly put them, do not adequately destroy T. Gondii, the parasite in question. It is also stupid to flush litter because it will eventually clog up your plumbing and you will get shit all over your floor. Since you are so afraid of living "near a landfill of cat shit" this shitty floor situation may concern you.
But you may just want to find this out for yourself and not just "parrot what you are told." Then, when there is shit all over your floor, please accept my personal invitation to eat the shit, then the shit in your mouth and stomach could keep the shit in your head company.
Thanks for posting to my blog, thanks for the lulz, and happy trolling,
--Sharky
At first I thought you were a friend of mine just trying to screw with me, but then I re-read your comment and I realized that you aren't one of my friends because my friends are too smart to write things that dumb. I could post countless links that would prove you wrong, but it would be a good exercise for your constipated shit-brain to do the research on your own.
The truth is that "WASTE!!! TREATMENT!!!" facilities, as you so loudly put them, do not adequately destroy T. Gondii, the parasite in question. It is also stupid to flush litter because it will eventually clog up your plumbing and you will get shit all over your floor. Since you are so afraid of living "near a landfill of cat shit" this shitty floor situation may concern you.
But you may just want to find this out for yourself and not just "parrot what you are told." Then, when there is shit all over your floor, please accept my personal invitation to eat the shit, then the shit in your mouth and stomach could keep the shit in your head company.
Thanks for posting to my blog, thanks for the lulz, and happy trolling,
--Sharky
04/04/07 @ 17:28
Comment from: G. Winters [Visitor]
Reread the post fool, where I say they don't clean up everything that certainly includes the T. Gondii. I've read the countless links and they are all filled with could be, might be and a whole bunch of maybe(s).
Fortunately the world does not revolve just around otters. My point being at least treatment facilities remove other harmful parasites and contaminents from the waste so it is safer for ALL living creatures. "ALL" living creatures, like you and me and my children.
Do you want to live near a landfill filled with untreated waste? I lived near one that kept on leaking. Answer please
And as for the plumbing issue, nothing but an old wives tale. Please forward proof of that to.
Parrot on.
Fortunately the world does not revolve just around otters. My point being at least treatment facilities remove other harmful parasites and contaminents from the waste so it is safer for ALL living creatures. "ALL" living creatures, like you and me and my children.
Do you want to live near a landfill filled with untreated waste? I lived near one that kept on leaking. Answer please
And as for the plumbing issue, nothing but an old wives tale. Please forward proof of that to.
Parrot on.
04/04/07 @ 23:52
Comment from: sharky [Member]
G. Winters:
Who do you work for? Fresh Step or Scoop Away?
Since you are the one accusing me of "parroting," then the burden of proof is on you. Prove to me that flushing cat waste is more responsible than bagging it and disposing of it with the landfill garbage? Prove to me that all this "don't flush cat litter" business is just a way for some egg-heads to pad their academic resumes. You show me the INDEPENDENT lab tests that prove that flushing is safe.
If I'm parroting the literature of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association as well as many State Health Departments, I am sorry, I have no way to independently test the data for myself. I am going to have to make a judgment call on this one and my common sense tells me to believe the data provided by government *gasp* agencies, and some pointy-headed *double-gasp* academics...I know that makes me a Commie.
I appreciate your Contrarian spirit, but Contrarianism, if used just to make oneself feel different or smarter than the crowd, is not only sad, but it is counterproductive.
I also honestly doubt that the cat shit content of your local leaky landfill was the most dangerous contaminant you had to deal with.
Regarding this question: "Do you want to live near a landfill filled with untreated waste? I lived near one that kept on leaking. Answer please"
Way to use a 3rd Grade rhetorical device...good for you!!! Just to make you think I am as crazy smart as I know you wish you were, I'm going to answer: Yes! I do want to live near a landfill filled with untreated waste!
But then again, if you want me to answer in character as a shark, my answer is that I swim in the ocean which is full of untreated waste anyway. And I, as a shark, don't feel that cat shit is the most dangerous contaminant I have to deal with.
Are you happy?
Again, thank you for helping promote my site. Maybe you should get your own blog and dedicate it to exposing parrot bloggers like me.
Love,
--Sharky
Who do you work for? Fresh Step or Scoop Away?
Since you are the one accusing me of "parroting," then the burden of proof is on you. Prove to me that flushing cat waste is more responsible than bagging it and disposing of it with the landfill garbage? Prove to me that all this "don't flush cat litter" business is just a way for some egg-heads to pad their academic resumes. You show me the INDEPENDENT lab tests that prove that flushing is safe.
If I'm parroting the literature of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association as well as many State Health Departments, I am sorry, I have no way to independently test the data for myself. I am going to have to make a judgment call on this one and my common sense tells me to believe the data provided by government *gasp* agencies, and some pointy-headed *double-gasp* academics...I know that makes me a Commie.
I appreciate your Contrarian spirit, but Contrarianism, if used just to make oneself feel different or smarter than the crowd, is not only sad, but it is counterproductive.
I also honestly doubt that the cat shit content of your local leaky landfill was the most dangerous contaminant you had to deal with.
Regarding this question: "Do you want to live near a landfill filled with untreated waste? I lived near one that kept on leaking. Answer please"
Way to use a 3rd Grade rhetorical device...good for you!!! Just to make you think I am as crazy smart as I know you wish you were, I'm going to answer: Yes! I do want to live near a landfill filled with untreated waste!
But then again, if you want me to answer in character as a shark, my answer is that I swim in the ocean which is full of untreated waste anyway. And I, as a shark, don't feel that cat shit is the most dangerous contaminant I have to deal with.
Are you happy?
Again, thank you for helping promote my site. Maybe you should get your own blog and dedicate it to exposing parrot bloggers like me.
Love,
--Sharky
04/05/07 @ 01:04
Comment from: G. Winters [Visitor]
For the last time, its the remedy that's ass backwards
1. It is the parasite the does injury to the otter. I do not deny the research findings. Cat feces are just one of many ways it is transmitted.
2. Learn how to kill the parasite at the waste treatment level.
3. Then pass laws that all cat owners flush there cats waste. Treat the waste and poof parasite dead, Otters better.
It is animal waste just like human waste and California has spent billions of dollare on waste treatment facilities created to clean animal waste rather than sit untreated in your local landfill.
Let a system that already exist do its job.
By the way Prof. Conrad said living near a landfill would stink as did the fine people at Save the Otter and many others. Google "anti landfill".
Forgot to answer the old wives tale plumbing question.
Parrot on
1. It is the parasite the does injury to the otter. I do not deny the research findings. Cat feces are just one of many ways it is transmitted.
2. Learn how to kill the parasite at the waste treatment level.
3. Then pass laws that all cat owners flush there cats waste. Treat the waste and poof parasite dead, Otters better.
It is animal waste just like human waste and California has spent billions of dollare on waste treatment facilities created to clean animal waste rather than sit untreated in your local landfill.
Let a system that already exist do its job.
By the way Prof. Conrad said living near a landfill would stink as did the fine people at Save the Otter and many others. Google "anti landfill".
Forgot to answer the old wives tale plumbing question.
Parrot on
04/05/07 @ 22:05
Comment from: sharky [Member]
Winters:
Here is an article that quotes Conrad--
http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?articleId=1000&issueId=70
She also says that all cats should be kept indoors so there is no cat shit run-off when it rains.
Yeah it would be great to have a better water treatment system. Yeah, it would be great to be able to flush all kinds of things down the toilet and the water treatment facilities are so awesome and magically terrific that they can get the water sparkle-sparkle clean. But since social infrastructure is not a priority for government, commerce, or industry, we are stuck with what we have.
So....until we get a better water treatment system, it is recommended that people bag their cat shit and not flush it. Should we make water treatment better? Sure, but all our tax dollars go to wars and insider back-slappy government contracts.
Here are some answers to your rhetorical questions.
Q: Do people want to live next to landfills?
A: Of Course Not.
Q: Do landfills stink?
A: Sure, I would think that most of them would...they are full of garbage.
About flushing the litter and plumbing disasters...a plumber told me not to flush the litter. I am not a professional plumber, so I took his advice. There is also a bunch of shit on plumbing forums about it. Again, I do not have the time, money, or patience, to do my own independent testing on the flushing of kitty litter, so I am going to have to take their word for it. I've never personally flushed oatmeal or cous-cous down a toilet, but I don't think that would be wise either.
And you forgot to answer my question. Do you work for Fresh Step or Scoop Away?
--Sharky
Here is an article that quotes Conrad--
http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?articleId=1000&issueId=70
She also says that all cats should be kept indoors so there is no cat shit run-off when it rains.
Yeah it would be great to have a better water treatment system. Yeah, it would be great to be able to flush all kinds of things down the toilet and the water treatment facilities are so awesome and magically terrific that they can get the water sparkle-sparkle clean. But since social infrastructure is not a priority for government, commerce, or industry, we are stuck with what we have.
So....until we get a better water treatment system, it is recommended that people bag their cat shit and not flush it. Should we make water treatment better? Sure, but all our tax dollars go to wars and insider back-slappy government contracts.
Here are some answers to your rhetorical questions.
Q: Do people want to live next to landfills?
A: Of Course Not.
Q: Do landfills stink?
A: Sure, I would think that most of them would...they are full of garbage.
About flushing the litter and plumbing disasters...a plumber told me not to flush the litter. I am not a professional plumber, so I took his advice. There is also a bunch of shit on plumbing forums about it. Again, I do not have the time, money, or patience, to do my own independent testing on the flushing of kitty litter, so I am going to have to take their word for it. I've never personally flushed oatmeal or cous-cous down a toilet, but I don't think that would be wise either.
And you forgot to answer my question. Do you work for Fresh Step or Scoop Away?
04/06/07 @ 00:04
Comment from: tok [Visitor]
I don't know about otters but my idiot tenants flushed kitty litter down the toilets and blocked up my plumbing with the stuff. It's like cement after it expands. I wish that parasite would have wriggled up their stupid lazy asses and put an end to them.
02/24/08 @ 20:55
Comment from: sharky [Member]
Someone I know has five cats. He/she had a plumber come in to change their water heater and the first thing the plumber says when he sees the cats is--"You don't flush your litter do you?"
--Sharky
--Sharky
02/25/08 @ 16:30
Comment from: Giant Clam [Visitor]
Sharky just so rocks!
Winters, may I suggest you keep your thimble-brained trawling limited to You Tube where there are enough recalcitrant reactionary knee-jerk dimwits for you to go up against that you may maintain your feeling of self-induced satisfaction and feeble superiority at winning rhetorical arguments?
I am more concerned about the over one hundred thousand untested chemical compounds that are developed faster than any system can monitor them, much less determine their long-term effects, and that make it into landfills. Dieldrin, DDT, PCB's, TBTF, BBP's, ..... it just gets bigger and soupier everyday. Good lord there is a cornucopia of genetic mangling leachable water-soluble goodies out there that take precedent over Toxoplasmosis, an ignorant inability to put kitty litter in a garbage can and a blatant disregard for an amazingly resilient Fuck Beast, the Sea Otter.
What's good for otters is good for clams, we need natural selection too!
Not to mention we are tired of filter-feeding your shit!
Winters, may I suggest you keep your thimble-brained trawling limited to You Tube where there are enough recalcitrant reactionary knee-jerk dimwits for you to go up against that you may maintain your feeling of self-induced satisfaction and feeble superiority at winning rhetorical arguments?
I am more concerned about the over one hundred thousand untested chemical compounds that are developed faster than any system can monitor them, much less determine their long-term effects, and that make it into landfills. Dieldrin, DDT, PCB's, TBTF, BBP's, ..... it just gets bigger and soupier everyday. Good lord there is a cornucopia of genetic mangling leachable water-soluble goodies out there that take precedent over Toxoplasmosis, an ignorant inability to put kitty litter in a garbage can and a blatant disregard for an amazingly resilient Fuck Beast, the Sea Otter.
What's good for otters is good for clams, we need natural selection too!
Not to mention we are tired of filter-feeding your shit!
08/01/08 @ 18:15
Comment from: sharky [Member]
LOL, we haven't heard from Mr. Winters in quite a while. Good lookin' out for your undersea homies though, Giant Clam.
--Sharky
--Sharky
08/08/08 @ 01:15
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