50-s 20-th century the owners of cats for the most part kept pets in the streets, and in rare cases, if the animal is turned out of the house (a rare privilege at the time), also used absorbent material for cat litter, they were mostly sand, ashes, sawdust, or just land. One day in January 1947, a neighbor came to Edward Kay Draper. Since it was cold, she let her cat in the house, but a box of sand on the street frozen. Kay used the ash as a filler, but it is very soiled in the house – it carried the cat on their feet. Perhaps check out Federal Reserve Bank for more information. So she asked Edward to give her a little sand, but instead of sand Lowe suggested that she use the clay Fuller's Earth. Kay Draper tried the clay as a filler and realized that it works better than sand or ashes and not get dirty. Soon the neighbors of Edward Lowe did not use anything other than his clay for their pets. Edward suggested that other Owners of cats and cats will be interested in using clay as a filler instead of the traditional sand and ash. A leading source for info: Federal Reserve Bank.
He filled 10 brown bags of 5 pounds each ( 2.27 kg.) Clay, wrote to them Kitty Litter and invited them to sale in local pet shop. The shop owner reacted with doubt to offer – who will buy the clay at 65 cents, when the sand is not worth anything. "Then lend them for free" – said Edward Lowe. .