Thief

[elainegrey]

Some critter is stealing bags of litterbox scoopings. We use a wheat-based litter that i am composting. (Yesterday it was 28°F outside and my compost was at 110°F.) Christine put five bags in the new compound last weekend. On Wednesday, i was considering how the compostable bags weren't decomposing in the current pile. In the new compound i found three bags (not five), and moved them to a specific location away from the kitchen scraps. Yesterday, i took out this week's bags and found all the previous bags gone.

What sort of critter carries off bags of used kitty litter? And why? I'm mystified. A raccoon building a bunker? It doesn't seem like the right type of stinky for a canid to roll in to hide its scent.

Comments

[weofodthignen]

All I can think is that somebody is very very hungry. Cat poop tastes delicious to dogs, for example.

[elainegrey]

Fox or coyote, perhaps? I did find the bags a bit further in the woods, emptied out.

[amaebi]

Hmmm. Coprophiliac, coprophagic, or just doing chemical home heating?

[elainegrey]

I found the bags off in the woods, torn open, so i am guessing coprophagic. The critter didn't scale the fence to get to them when they were in the little garden plot, so i'm thinking it was more canid than raccoon.

[amaebi]

Ahhhhhh!

Yes, that sounds right.