Apparently my wife thought this sugarberry bowl made a good cat litter scoop.
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Time to turn her a proper scope, me thinks. Nice looking bowl too.
Gregory
Gregory
Are you sure she’s not just trying to dry it out a little?
Well look at the positive side, she didn’t use it as a litter box
Ooh, that hurts. Maybe the cat really liked it?!
They like having their own wayCats don't l;ike anything.
At least she wasn't using it to clean out the litter box. 
Fixed it for you...
Don't know if you remember my "respect" story from a few months ago, a bit of the opposite.
I once turned an ugly bowl, the worst in the world. I threw it out the door towards the barn, was going to burn it. The vet came and saw it so I asked if she wanted a horrible bowl, maybe for cat food or something. I had one unbreakable condition - that she NEVER tell anyone where she got it.
Some time later I went to their house for a birthday celebration for her father-in-law. As I walked in I saw the bowl on a table with nuts or something in it - she announced: "Hey everyone, this is John - he made this bowl!" Ack.
Moral of the story - burn bad work promptly.
JKJ
I once turned an ugly bowl, the worst in the world. I threw it out the door towards the barn, was going to burn it. The vet came and saw it so I asked if she wanted a horrible bowl, maybe for cat food or something. I had one unbreakable condition - that she NEVER tell anyone where she got it.
Some time later I went to their house for a birthday celebration for her father-in-law. As I walked in I saw the bowl on a table with nuts or something in it - she announced: "Hey everyone, this is John - he made this bowl!" Ack.
Moral of the story - burn bad work promptly.
JKJ
Truer words never spoken
A good friend of mine is a potter. Behind his house is a big pile of smashed pots. When a piece comes out of the kiln with a defect he carries to the pile and smashes it! I love that!
However, I do keep some small things that are bad, such where I cut through the side hollowing an ornament globe. I put these in my "Box O' Shame". I pull the box off the shelf when a student has done something that can't be saved and feels miserable. I want to show them that anyone who has ever turned wood has made mistakes!
JKJ
At least she wasn't using it to clean out the litter box.
You don't have any pierced pieces, do you? Might want to keep them out of her sight, just in case.
What a great idea, a custom, pierced litter scoop made of polished cocobolo or ebony. Great gift for the cat lover who has everything else. 
Cut from a board, handle turned something like this oven stick, but shorter, wider scoop end shaped on a bandsaw and smoothed on a drum sander.
JKJ
Cut from a board, handle turned something like this oven stick, but shorter, wider scoop end shaped on a bandsaw and smoothed on a drum sander.
JKJ
I had that thought, briefly. Briefly.