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Pets & Working Animals => Cats => Topic started by: Bionic on March 17, 2013, 01:11:23 pm
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Just opened a suitcase which hasn't been opened in ages to find that at some stage the cat has pee'd in it. Not sure I can save the clothes although will try but any idea how I can get the smell out of the case?
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I had that with a pair of curtains which I had to wash 3 times to get rid of the smell but a suitcase, now that's a challenge. What about washing it with the flash that has the febreze in it. Might work.
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Biological washing powder neutralises cat pee odour ;)
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We had that when we had cats but it was in the bottom of our wardrobe and on steves shoes :roflanim: , trouble is it stinks but you cannot see it, also one used to pee on the stairs in a courner, never got rid of that stain or smell.
The worse one was our little Patterdale, we bought a nice Ikea rug that was greens and long pile, as I walked over it without shoes one day I noticed a wet patch, then several more wet patches, I tried every thing and spent a fortune, when we moved I cleaned it and rolled it up, when unrolled the smell of amonia was terrible so it just had to go..
I would say your suitcase may have to go too >:( Hope not but good luck anyway :fc:
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Well I will try the biological washing powder and report back
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Bicarb might help once it's dry.
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Nightmare, blowtorch only.
What the heck is in cat pee anyway, it must be excellent for something - acne? Grab a teenager :D
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What is it with cats? Every winter ours takes to pooping in the house every now and then. Now that really stinks >:( but is scrubable. She even seems to come in from outside to do it. It's just often enough to drive me mad. She won't use a litter tray but hates snow - don't we all.
Cats all seem to have their favourite place to mark their territory, or whatever they are doing, maybe expressing their displeasure. There is some stuff you can get from the pet shop which neutralises the pee smell and in theory puts them off repeat offending. Our pet shop doesn't sell it though and I haven't found any since we moved here. Thank goodness we have only one cat now, whereas previously we had four :cat: :cat: :cat: :cat:
In your suitcase aaagh. At least when you go on holiday you will have the odour of your favourite pets with you :-J
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If I take Felix's litter tray out to clean it and don't have it back in time, he goes in the shower - over the drain hole. Clever boy :cat:
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:roflanim: , we had a cat that went in the shower as well, thats great!! Clever boy indeed :thumbsup:
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I saw a clip on utube a while back where the cat goes in the toilet. Now thats training or you :roflanim:
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One of ours poos in the bath.. Dirty got even though there are 2 litter trays..she will only use when they have new catsan in...she also peed in the shopping bag full of shopping that we put on the kitchen floor ???
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;D yes, our cat goes in over the drain hole in the shower too - very continental!
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I saw a clip on utube a while back where the cat goes in the toilet. Now thats training or you :roflanim:
We had a cat which drank out of the toilet...............
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My dog used to throw its balls down the toilet and fish them out, its room was near the toilet and also sometimes ate the soap.
Bicarb will absorb wee and some smells, but its hard......very hard
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At least yours is restricted to suitcase Sally ...... my back bedroom stinks of cat pee this eve ..... but do you think I can locate the source?!?
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Linda,
To be honest its not just the suitcase :(
I think the suitcase issue is prior to our move, a year ago, thats how long it is since the suitcase has been touched. My guess is that she did it as I was packing, possibly because she was unsure about all the upheaval.
In the last few days she has pee'd in my handbag and in my egg basket. I've had to throw away a lipstick case, a leather wallet, a packet of mints. I thought the handbag was a right off so was going to throw it away but I dumped it into some washing liquid and its come out ok. Don't think I can do that with a suitcase though. I am going to try spot cleaning it today.
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Here's hoping you manage to get the smell out. :fc:
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We used to have a kitten that jumped over a litter tray to wee and poo in the bath (had to keep them in the bathroom at night as they were in and out the catflap otherwise or pooing in the house!) Wanted to scrub the bath with bleach but couldnt' as that apparently encourages them more so bicarb it was - never quite felt enough for me though and we now have a new bath ;D
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I've read recently that a cat peeing in unusual places can be due to its having cystitis. It goes off its litter tray as it associates the tray with peeing painfully, so looks for somewhere to pee that isn't painful.
I've also been told very recently that Go-Cat dried food is often found to be being fed to cats which develop cystitis...
I have also had cats that took to peeing or even pooing indoors when the ground outdoors was not suitable for them to dig their holes or to pee on - frozen solid, covered in snow, too muddy. I had one cat, Mixture, who used to come for a late night walk with me and the dog; one icy night he was trying to find somewhere to toilet and kept crying in frustration and running to another spot, trying to dig, crying and moving on. It was hilarious at first but then we took pity on him and dug through the ice for him under a bush. ::)
I guess that other reasons to make the cat unhappy to venture outside could also lead to indoor toiletting.
And yes, I have had several cats that insisted on a clean litter tray or it was too awful to be considered. ::)
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I remember an episode of James Herriot from years ago, and he used coffee powder / granules to remove the smell of fox turd.... I tried it when we borrowed a friends gundog & she rolled in the stuff and really stunk - It did make a huge difference after I bathed her in it. May work with cat pee.
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Apparently tomato ketchup works for vile smells on a dog's coat, but might make a bit of a mess of the curtains :yum: .
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bicarb does generally work also white vinegar or zoflora but its a question of which smell is worse with the zoflora their rose one smells like cat pee anyway! :)
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Our cat has taken to pee'ing in the 'new' dog bed even though he likes to sleep in it himself ::) ??? ::) . I'm forever washing it in a bio washing liquid but he still keeps doing it - little s**t. I'm sure he's going senile, he must be about 13 or 14 now, bless him (grrrrrrrrrrr :rant: :rant: :rant: ). Sorry Sally, that doesn't help you one iota.......but the bio washing liquid DOES get rid of the smell........if not the cat :roflanim: :roflanim:
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I washed the clothes in bio powder and they have come out as good as new so I was very pleased. I tried some bio powder in the suitcase but its more difficult as I didn't want to soak it right through like the clothes.
It still smells but not as much. Anyway, when the weather improves (I am sure it will eventually) I have decided I will soak the case and then let it dry in the sun. If it ruins the case then so be it. I can't use it as it is anyway.
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OK, so I decided to dunk the case (well its more of a big soft bag than a case) in the bath with lots of bio powder and left it to soak.
The case has been drying outside for a couple of days and the cats pee smell has completely gone :thumbsup: . The only problem now is that case smells really strongly of washing powder :roflanim: :roflanim:
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:thumbsup: well done....now to keep it out the case!!
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Do you know what? All of these tales has just reinforced to me never to get a cat! I know my Border Terrible can be a little beggar for running off but at least she pretends to like me and she's never peed in my suitcase!
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We've adopted an old girl Maddie who can't go outside to toilet as she's very frail and very, very deaf so we got a litter tray for her. The dogs enjoyed the delicacy of fresh cat poo :P so we bought another covered litter tray. Now the other two much younger and very able bodied cats come in to go to the loo and then go out again. I wasn't supposed to have to buy that much cat litter. Buggers. Lazy buggers.
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That made me smile, Pedwardine :D