The invention of cat litter was brought about by accident, by Edward Lowe who in Michigan, USA in 1947 while working in his father's sawdust business, was asked by a lady if she could have a bag of sawdust to put in her cat's sand tray as the tray had frozen in the cold weather. Edward, knowing that he used kiln-dried, granulated clay to soak up spillages of grease, thought that the clay might be a better substance than sawdust, so he provided the lady with this instead. The clay was so successful that the lady was soon back for more.

After testing the clay himself, Edward was soon selling bags of litter to the public by the hundreds, the business expanded and grew into a multi-million dollar industry which took over his life. Edward Lowe sold his business in 1990 for over 150 million dollars, he died in 1995 when the empire at that time had an annual turnover of half a billion dollars.

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