Lessons in Litter

Imagine my displeasure, then, when all of the boxes of our favorite brand began sporting big, yellow stickers with those dreaded words: "New & Improved!" I reached for one, and my worst kitty-litter fears were realized. The "new and improved" litter is so much heavier than the original that I tumbled into a display of Snausages as its unexpected weight pulled my arm toward the floor. But clinging desperately to the notion of brand loyalty and hoping against hope that weight was the only non-improvement improvement, I brought the litter home. Almost needless to say, it's totally 
different. It's still eco-friendly and non-perfumed, but now it has these little stick-like bits that our cats simply will not tolerate. When they finally realized that no amount of burrowing, flinging and circling was going to make me toss a box of $12 cat litter and they deigned to do their business in it — well, it didn't work nearly as well as its old and unimproved predecessor.