mleku on Nostr: he's good... only persisting health issue now is a cough that he gets from inhaling ...

he's good... only persisting health issue now is a cough that he gets from inhaling the dust from the cat litter, which has been polluting my household air since i got him. i realised that my old, but still working air filter that has got a "change filter" light on it now is still perfectly fine for catching this dust, so it's set up in the bathroom near his litter tray and when he kicks it up, the thing automatically clears the air. i expect he will get better after not breathing that shit all the time. i thought it was just the particular type of litter i got also, but there is another type of litter that is absorbing, the one now is clumping, the absorbing stuff is great because he can use it, and pee into it, and it dries out and stays loose, and when i scatter it over the lawn of the little ornamental garden beside my place, the grass gets all dark green and lush, i thought it might be the smelly stuff in this litter but now i think it's just the dust at all, especially dust that has his pee in it because ammonia is quite the cough-inducer.

i tried putting some commercial fertilizer on the lawn last week and it seems to have been too strong for the lawn and in patches its yellowed a lot, unlike whe result of the cat litter grains. so i'll be switching back to the absorbent kind. i also have a pair of air purifiers coming next week that will clear the air in the rest of the house, i'm noticing it makes quite a difference to my breathing, these ones are even better, they have a cold catalytic filter as well as the HEPA and carbon, this place is full of compounded wood paneling that i'm sure is venting lots of nasty VOCs into the air.