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catricide or Feliway?
I managed to kill the odor in one room of my house- with removal of
the carpet, lots of enzymer, lots of oil-based Kilz- but now those little ...... are using another two spots. they had used them previously, but not heavily, but now one carpet is destroyed and will be replaced in a couple weeks. The other area I really didn't want to re-carpet so I poured on a gallon of enzymer, and then cleaned the carpet. I used oxy-clean in the cleaner solution. I had barely gotten the room put back in order and I smelled a suspicious odor- and someone had pooped underneath the bed! There is a litter box not 15 feet away that she could have used! I had just purchased a Feliway dispenser and planned to use it in that room after I found out if it would still allow them to use the litter box in the adjacent bathroom. Will it? Will the Feliway help now that they can obviously still smell the old spot? what will honestly and truly take the smell away? I might lift the carpet and soak it from the back, switch out that piece of pad, change the carpet tack strip and apply Kilz to that area and have my carpet layer re-lay that area, but I fear that when I see what is on the backside of the carpet I might get terrified and get rid of it all! Then my baby son will eventually go sleep in a bedroom with a concrete floor since I'm rapidly running out of cat-odor abatement funds. I've even ripped out the molding in the other rooms since the smell is in that too- I can smell it when I rip the moulding out and put it outside in the trash. right now the cat is locked in the bathroom downstairs with the *unused* litter box, but I bet I'm just upsetting her. *sigh* ===== Kate, http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kolina/a...f-formula.html Mom to Ursula (8), Sage (6), Benno (2.5) Books just wanna be FREE! See what I mean at: http://bookcrossing.com/friend/kolina |
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"Kate" wrote in message
om... I managed to kill the odor in one room of my house- with removal of the carpet, lots of enzymer, lots of oil-based Kilz- but now those little ...... are using another two spots. they had used them previously, but not heavily, but now one carpet is destroyed and will be replaced in a couple weeks. The other area I really didn't want to re-carpet so I poured on a gallon of enzymer, and then cleaned the carpet. I used oxy-clean in the cleaner solution. I had barely gotten the room put back in order and I smelled a suspicious odor- and someone had pooped underneath the bed! There is a litter box not 15 feet away that she could have used! I had just purchased a Feliway dispenser and planned to use it in that room after I found out if it would still allow them to use the litter box in the adjacent bathroom. Will it? Will the Feliway help now that they can obviously still smell the old spot? what will honestly and truly take the smell away? I might lift the carpet and soak it from the back, switch out that piece of pad, change the carpet tack strip and apply Kilz to that area and have my carpet layer re-lay that area, but I fear that when I see what is on the backside of the carpet I might get terrified and get rid of it all! Then my baby son will eventually go sleep in a bedroom with a concrete floor since I'm rapidly running out of cat-odor abatement funds. I've even ripped out the molding in the other rooms since the smell is in that too- I can smell it when I rip the moulding out and put it outside in the trash. right now the cat is locked in the bathroom downstairs with the *unused* litter box, but I bet I'm just upsetting her. *sigh* It sounds like there is a deeper problem going on. Feliway will not mask smells, it is a pheromone that simulates the facial pheromone in cats that signals safety and calmness. If you have cats peeing in various spots and then defecating under your bed while cleaning is going on, something else is wrong besides odor. Do you have something new going on in your household? Something stressing out your cats? Are more than just one messing in areas other than the litterbox? |
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"Kate" wrote in message
om... I managed to kill the odor in one room of my house- with removal of the carpet, lots of enzymer, lots of oil-based Kilz- but now those little ...... are using another two spots. they had used them previously, but not heavily, but now one carpet is destroyed and will be replaced in a couple weeks. The other area I really didn't want to re-carpet so I poured on a gallon of enzymer, and then cleaned the carpet. I used oxy-clean in the cleaner solution. I had barely gotten the room put back in order and I smelled a suspicious odor- and someone had pooped underneath the bed! There is a litter box not 15 feet away that she could have used! I had just purchased a Feliway dispenser and planned to use it in that room after I found out if it would still allow them to use the litter box in the adjacent bathroom. Will it? Will the Feliway help now that they can obviously still smell the old spot? what will honestly and truly take the smell away? I might lift the carpet and soak it from the back, switch out that piece of pad, change the carpet tack strip and apply Kilz to that area and have my carpet layer re-lay that area, but I fear that when I see what is on the backside of the carpet I might get terrified and get rid of it all! Then my baby son will eventually go sleep in a bedroom with a concrete floor since I'm rapidly running out of cat-odor abatement funds. I've even ripped out the molding in the other rooms since the smell is in that too- I can smell it when I rip the moulding out and put it outside in the trash. right now the cat is locked in the bathroom downstairs with the *unused* litter box, but I bet I'm just upsetting her. *sigh* It sounds like there is a deeper problem going on. Feliway will not mask smells, it is a pheromone that simulates the facial pheromone in cats that signals safety and calmness. If you have cats peeing in various spots and then defecating under your bed while cleaning is going on, something else is wrong besides odor. Do you have something new going on in your household? Something stressing out your cats? Are more than just one messing in areas other than the litterbox? |
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In , "Cheryl" wrote:
| It sounds like there is a deeper problem going on. [...] If you have | cats peeing in various spots and then defecating under your bed while | cleaning is going on, something else is wrong besides odor. I agree. This last incident is a strong indication of behavioral issues. | Do you have something new going on in your household? Something | stressing out your cats? Pooping under the bed suggests that the cats don't feel safe using the litterbox. The location could be poor: either too exposed (out in the open) or too much in a deadend (where the cat could feel trapped), or not enough litterboxes in total. One thought that comes to mind is whether there is a dog in the house too. Dogs quite often take a quite unhealthy interest in litterboxes (cat poop is tasty!), so with dogs around, the litterboxes should be somewhere that dogs can't get to. Other than that, the texture (and odor?) of the litter may not he to their liking. And, of course, the biggest unmentioned reason for litterbox avoidance: the cats could be declawed - they find standing on and scraping litter uncomfortable (if not painful). |
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In , "Cheryl" wrote:
| It sounds like there is a deeper problem going on. [...] If you have | cats peeing in various spots and then defecating under your bed while | cleaning is going on, something else is wrong besides odor. I agree. This last incident is a strong indication of behavioral issues. | Do you have something new going on in your household? Something | stressing out your cats? Pooping under the bed suggests that the cats don't feel safe using the litterbox. The location could be poor: either too exposed (out in the open) or too much in a deadend (where the cat could feel trapped), or not enough litterboxes in total. One thought that comes to mind is whether there is a dog in the house too. Dogs quite often take a quite unhealthy interest in litterboxes (cat poop is tasty!), so with dogs around, the litterboxes should be somewhere that dogs can't get to. Other than that, the texture (and odor?) of the litter may not he to their liking. And, of course, the biggest unmentioned reason for litterbox avoidance: the cats could be declawed - they find standing on and scraping litter uncomfortable (if not painful). |
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Arjun Ray wrote in message . ..
In , "Cheryl" wrote: | It sounds like there is a deeper problem going on. [...] If you have | cats peeing in various spots and then defecating under your bed while | cleaning is going on, something else is wrong besides odor. I agree. This last incident is a strong indication of behavioral issues. | Do you have something new going on in your household? Something | stressing out your cats? no. Pooping under the bed suggests that the cats don't feel safe using the litterbox. The location could be poor: either too exposed (out in the open) or too much in a deadend (where the cat could feel trapped), or not enough litterboxes in total. well, we have 3 for two cats. the one in the garage gets used. the one in the downstairs bathroom, near where they pee (or she, pees), doesn't get used and one upstairs in the bathroom. one cat is very comfortable in that bathroom but the other one isn't. my husband suggested that the cat came in from being out all night and went to an inappropriate spot to urinate, and he suspects she won't pee outside. One thought that comes to mind is whether there is a dog in the house too. Dogs quite often take a quite unhealthy interest in litterboxes (cat poop is tasty!), so with dogs around, the litterboxes should be somewhere that dogs can't get to. yeah, and the kids. that's one of the issues we have with placeing the boxes. the suspect cat doesnt' like two of 3 bathrooms, adn those, in general, seem to be better spots for the boxes. Other than that, the texture (and odor?) of the litter may not he to their liking. I've tried several. I've used the same stuff inside as in the garage and still the box goes unused. And, of course, the biggest unmentioned reason for litterbox avoidance: the cats could be declawed - they find standing on and scraping litter uncomfortable (if not painful). no, they have their claws. and yes, I know the theory of Feliway. ===== Kate, http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kolina/a...f-formula.html Mom to Ursula (8), Sage (6), Benno (2.5) Books just wanna be FREE! See what I mean at: http://bookcrossing.com/friend/kolina http://www.blogforamerica.com/ |
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Arjun Ray wrote in message . ..
In , "Cheryl" wrote: | It sounds like there is a deeper problem going on. [...] If you have | cats peeing in various spots and then defecating under your bed while | cleaning is going on, something else is wrong besides odor. I agree. This last incident is a strong indication of behavioral issues. | Do you have something new going on in your household? Something | stressing out your cats? no. Pooping under the bed suggests that the cats don't feel safe using the litterbox. The location could be poor: either too exposed (out in the open) or too much in a deadend (where the cat could feel trapped), or not enough litterboxes in total. well, we have 3 for two cats. the one in the garage gets used. the one in the downstairs bathroom, near where they pee (or she, pees), doesn't get used and one upstairs in the bathroom. one cat is very comfortable in that bathroom but the other one isn't. my husband suggested that the cat came in from being out all night and went to an inappropriate spot to urinate, and he suspects she won't pee outside. One thought that comes to mind is whether there is a dog in the house too. Dogs quite often take a quite unhealthy interest in litterboxes (cat poop is tasty!), so with dogs around, the litterboxes should be somewhere that dogs can't get to. yeah, and the kids. that's one of the issues we have with placeing the boxes. the suspect cat doesnt' like two of 3 bathrooms, adn those, in general, seem to be better spots for the boxes. Other than that, the texture (and odor?) of the litter may not he to their liking. I've tried several. I've used the same stuff inside as in the garage and still the box goes unused. And, of course, the biggest unmentioned reason for litterbox avoidance: the cats could be declawed - they find standing on and scraping litter uncomfortable (if not painful). no, they have their claws. and yes, I know the theory of Feliway. ===== Kate, http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kolina/a...f-formula.html Mom to Ursula (8), Sage (6), Benno (2.5) Books just wanna be FREE! See what I mean at: http://bookcrossing.com/friend/kolina http://www.blogforamerica.com/ |
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