Cleaning up After Higgins and Miggins
October 21st 2008 21:00
Higgins
Back in the days when I used to cat sit for my old neighbour, part of my duties involved checking the kitty litter. I had to check for cat poo as my neighbour said Higgins and Miggins won’t use the kitty litter once it was soiled. The thought of my neighbour’s poor babies holding it in while she was away was enough to make me check their litter trays as soon as I went in to her flat.
As unpleasant as it sounded, I was happy to oblige as if I end up having a pet one day, I will have to do this anyway. All I had to do was look through the shredded newspaper that Higgins and Miggins liked to use and see if I could find any number twos. Sometimes the smell would give them away. I would then roll the shredded paper up into a ball and put it in the trash, taking care not to get poo on myself. I then washed the litter trays and grabbed one of the old newspapers my neighbour kept in the bathroom and rip the pages up into strips. Once I had enough I could put them into the trays and presto, Higgins and Miggins could go to the toilet again.
It was obviously harder not to get cat wee on my hands. I would try not to think about this as I changed the kitty litter.
But afterwards, when the cats let me play with them and gazed at me with their soulful yellow eyes, I forgot all about my unpleasant task.
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