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Human waste gets heavily diluted, essentially immediately, and even more so once it leaves the waste treatment plant for the local river, lake, or ocean.

Cat shit stays intact when it goes to a landfill, and thus would cause a potential hot spot that humans would not.

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That makes sense, but then why not then advise the pet owner to flush the cat's poop down the toilet? Seems simpler than having a special container and a return trip to the vet.

It's not just the poop, it can be the urine, too.

Cat litter + indoor plumbing = not a good time.

OP said the vet said to return the poop, not the entire contents of the kitty litter box.

Hey, it's me - my friend specifically told me about collecting poop from the litter box, not the whole thing. But maybe she got it wrong, I'm not sure.

When our cat had a similar procedure, they advised that it was okay to flush the cat poop (assuming you could separate it from the litter).

I did think it seemed kind of silly though. Like the state is really gonna hunt down whoever threw away radioactive cat poop.

The whole thing was more about 9/11 / terrorism than environmental damage.

Wait, are you saying it's possible to construct a nuclear device out of cat poop?

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