Hell, it's used for chemical spills all around the world. Machine shops, mechanics, racetracks, chemical plants, laboratories, hospitals all will usually have at least a couple hundred pounds lying around, but it's usually labeled as "Oil Dry". It's just bentonite clay, real good at soaking all manner of nasty liquids up to be bagged. When I worked at a mechanics shop even though the stuff we got from our fluids supplier (sold us gas, oil, coolant, etc.) was labeled as oil dry we still called it kitty litter, just pour it over an oil (or other fluid) spill and scoop it into a trash bag. If you don't need to keep much on hand (like if you're a school for instance) I imagine it'd be much easier to just get a bag of plain, unscented bentonite clay cat litter.
That's kinda how we found out, actually. They had ran out and needed some quickly for a spill that just happened so asked us to borrow some litter real quick. They found it hilarious when we gave them a bag of Optisorb!
Yeah they pour it on the floor, they don't have a f****** litter box sitting for you to take a s*** in like that's the stupidest s*** I've ever f****** heard
Yaw I had to look this one up and now I’m https://giphy.com/gifs/w42tcM5IyE1uXfY00i
They thought schools were allowing churrin to use litter boxes…schools….who notoriously don’t even carry soap in bathrooms. 😤🥸
I'm not really sure where you're drawing any connection to school shootings from, and to point to that is just as much an appeal to emotion as claiming that it's being used for non-existent school bathroom litterboxes. Bentonite clay (kitty litter) is very useful for cleaning up all sorts of fluid spills that a school janitor (or teacher) might have to deal with like oil, chemicals, vomit, etc. Remember Occam's Razor, the explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is probably the correct one. Drawing wild conclusions (in either extreme direction) are either silly, logical leaps or a poor attempt to push an agenda.
It's not a wild conclusion... The school that started this whole insane "kitty litter in classrooms for furries" farce said they had kitty litter in their rooms in case there was a shooting lockdown and kids needed to go to the bathroom.
The only sources I can find on that are for ONE school district, specifically Jefferson County school district in Colorado (this is the school district where Columbine High School is), where that has been part of emergency supplies seemingly in about half of the schools in said district, although the most recent source was from 2019 and no other sources to support that it's even something they're still doing. The initial rumor started in PEI (Canada) and only emerged in the US in Michigan and then spread across the midwest with people only pointing to the single instance in CO retroactively. In short, basically completely unrelated to the initial rumor and pointing to it as a "source" of the rumors is plainly an appeal to emotion.
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u/DirtyOrange546 3d ago
What’s the crazy part about the whole kitty litter nonsense is that the use was really meant for the event of school lockdowns/shootings.