Date:         Thu, 9 Aug 2012 22:03:15 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: US Plastic was
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
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There is a brand and size of cat litter that was obviously designed by a
westy-owning cat litter executive. It's called Tidy Cats 30 lb size, and it
has a hinged lid and a handle. It fits under the westy seat with 1/16th or
so to spare all around, and if you had for our five of them they would give
you compartmentalized organization all the way across the underseat area. I
could only find two, but they would be westy standard equipment if I were
king.

Jim

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:08 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:

> At 10:57 AM 8/9/2012, Robert Stevens wrote:
>
>> No cracks, no runs, no errors so far. Proven that if stood on (as a
>> stool) they give up quickly. The plastic storage bins that have
>> attached lids, hinged on R/L sides, seem very robust but don't seem
>> to come in the convenient size these Sterilite's do. ;-(
>>
>
> The bins themselves are great, but the lids a) aren't waterproof and
> b) take an awful set (sag) if you put even moderate loads on top for
> any length of time.  They look as though they'd stack, but the tops
> won't stand it.  Doesn't make them useless, but cramps their style.
>
> Certain cat food and cat litter come in rectangular plastic buckets
> with bails and hinged lids.  Don't know if they'd stow under a Westy
> seat (my White Star seat/bed is definitely lower than the Westy, the
> small PortaPotti won't fit under it) but they're easy to carry, they
> snap-seal, and they nest (empty) if you take the lids off.
>
> Yrs,
> d
>