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[Lizzie]

I thought calicos could be male but it's very rare?

[sumbirdy]

I thought calicos could be male but it's very rare?

I thought so too.

[critter crazy]

This might sound stupid, but if Kitty Litter wasnt invented until 1920, what the heck did thhey use before then??? or were cats just outside all the time??

[sumbirdy]

This might sound stupid, but if Kitty Litter wasnt invented until 1920, what the heck did thhey use before then??? or were cats just outside all the time??

Dirt? I sometimes use dirt if I run out of kitty litter and can't get any for a couple of days. But who knows.

[Lizzie]

This might sound stupid, but if Kitty Litter wasnt invented until 1920, what the heck did thhey use before then??? or were cats just outside all the time??

Probably sand or newspaper, but I don't know. My step-mother, who was born in the late 1920's still won't have a litter box in the house, considering it dirty. I expect most people let the cat out when it cried at the door.

[catmandu]

Probably Cats went outside, did thier business and then came back into the house.
I cannot recall our family having a litter box in the fifties and sixties at all.
And if there was litter, it was a clay mix, not the clumping litters that we have today.

[kittycats_delight]

I thought calicos could be male but it's very rare?

Actually that is true. Not all calicos are female. Rarely and I mean extremely rarely they can be male but when a calico is a male it is natually sterile. Only female calicos can reproduce.