‘Two peas in a pod’
It makes sense that Blaser and Olson would become business partners, as they ve been like two peas in a pod their whole lives.
They grew up on neighboring farms and were the same age, riding the bus together and arranging meetings at their favorite culvert so they could set out on Tom Sawyerly adventures like building rafts to navigate the Poplar River.
As they grew up, they became busy with their own families and lives. But then the two men realized they had both been targeted by the same rare disease: Guillain-Barré syndrome, a serious autoimmune disorder in which the immune system attacks healthy nerve cells in the peripheral nervous system. This leads to weakness, numbness, and tingling, and can cause paralysis.
Lifetime neighbors, friends find new use for field peas with Pea Pawd cat litter
Chad Blaser and Mark Olson came up with the purr-fect business idea after noticing how absorbent field-pea chips are. Written By: J.J. Perry | ×
Friends Chad Blaser and Wayne Olson have developed Pea Pawd, a cat litter made from field peas. Special to The Forum
FOSSTON, Minn. Those darned cats.
Chad Blaser just couldn t keep his farm kitties out of the peas.
At the time, Blaser was raising sheep near Fosston, Minn., and was giving field pea chips to his lambs as an affordable, high-protein feed. But the resident felines weren t sheepish about using the legume-filled feed bunks as their own custom litter boxes.