Once upon a time, my father, my sister and I were adopted by a cat. This pleased me to no end, since I am far more a cat person than a dog person. Still, having always had dogs while growing up, I was not used to an animal that knew where to go to the bathroom, and didn't know what to do with the remains when it was done. I therefore sent the following question to my more vetrinarily knowledgeable friends inquiring what to do:

Okay, so the cat, being much smarter than its canine petmates, knows where it's supposed to go to the bathroom, and does. When the time comes to dispose of its endeavours, what does one do with them? Does one:
  1. Bury it in the neighbor's yard
  2. Wrap it up and give it to Stanley for his birthday
  3. Knit sweaters and lap rugs with it, hoping for a spot on Crook and Chase and, subsequently, Talk Soup
  4. Mail it to as a token of your
  5. Put in in your Land Rover in case you ever need to patch a cracked engine in Botswana
  6. Secretly replace the expensive coffee at a world-renowned restaurant with it
  7. Slip it in your boss's desk and call him "Kitty-man" behind his back
  8. Use it to practice for the next olympic "shot"put trials
  9. Toss it at an electric fan and see what happens
  10. Save it for the next A Capella competition and use it to "disqualify" groups.
  11. Keep it in a candy dish in the living room to discourage visits from neighborhood children
  12. Send it to Johnny Cash with a letter saying his name was on the bag, so you figure it's his
  13. Cheap holloween treats
  14. Take pictures and build a web site dedicated to it
  15. Carefully stack each one, and then call Guinness claiming you have the world's tallest stack
  16. Call the *other* Guinness and tell them you know what their secret ingredient is
  17. Make it into jewelry for hard-core punk rockers
  18. Sort by coloration and sell as sets of "checkers for cat lovers"
  19. Fill the bathtub with it and charge yuppies $50 a pop to lie in it
  20. Throw it up in the air, take a picture, and claim it's a photo of the Heaven's gate spaceship
  21. Let the San Jose Sharks use it as a practice puck
  22. Fill a backpack with it and leave it near the garbage cans in the park
  23. Recycled cat toys
  24. Post a note on the internet claiming to be blonde co-ed and offering to mail it to lonely guys for only $19.99 (plus tax)
  25. Take it to the cemetary and leave it instead of flowers for people you don't like
  26. Personalized paperweights as office christmas gifts
Or...?

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