Cat Odors

Litter boxes are very often nasty places where our cats do their thing. Often they only do part of the 3 part process that normally makes up “their thing in the box”.

1. Part 1 is supposed to be to dig a little pit in the litter. But if the litter is nasty with stool, or full of urine clumps part 1 is not executed.
2. Part 2 is supposed to include peeing or pooing in the pit, but if there is not pit it just lays on top of the litter.
3. Part 3 is supposed to include scooping some litter into the little pit to cover the pee or poo  and limit the odor produced by the excrement.

If your cat can’t dig a pit because of clumps of litter laying on top of the bulk of the litter, you can either scoop more often, or stop using clumping litter. I prefer the latter. Clumping litter was a great marketing idea to make litter easier to clean by people and harder to use by cats. It also insures that you will use more litter than you need to use and worst of all, it has a powder (the clumping agent) that turns to something like cement in kitten lungs.

Given that your cat does part 1, the chances are pretty good that it will do part 2.

Given part 1 and part 2, getting them to do part 3 can be a little iffy especially if they are used to clumping litter. But since all 3 parts are hard wired into their natural behievior, it will eventually come back.

Now for the odor. Since there are no clumps to scoop out and your cat is at least trying to perform the complex 3 part process, controlling the odor (which is already minimized) is quite simple with the proper products.

1. After dumping the 10 cent per pound OilDry litter in the garbage can on garbage night, use a plastic scraper to scrape the wet litter out of the bottom of the freshly dumped litter box.
2. Spray the inside bottom of the litter box with OdorXit Concentrate diluted 1 part concentrate to 30 parts of water. Using a trigger sprayer, cover the inside of the box with spray.
3. Add 3 quarts of litter
4. Return the litter box to its normal place. If you have a cover for the litter box, spray 1 pump of OdorXit Magic on the inside of each side and the top of the cover. This will absorb all the excrement odor produced by your cat for at least a week.

Now that your cat has a fresh, clean, odor free place to use as a toilet, the chances are much better that it will actually use it more consistently. And don’t forget, you should have a litter boxes per cat plus 1 as an alternate.

Remember, a cats nose is way more sensitive than yours is, and they get much closer to the litter box with their sensitive nose than you do. So make using the litter box a pleasent as possible. The reward will be yours.

We do not sell enzyme products because in my humble opinion they are not safe to use at all.

OdorXit Products, which are safe and effective on urine, feces, vomit, spoiled food, sour milk, dead animal smell, skunk, and a host of other bad smells contain no bacteria, enzymes or solvents (except water). Check out  The Odor Wizard for what OdorXit Products can do.

If you are trying to get urine out of wall to wall carpeting, you really need to educate your self on the size and complexity of the problem you are trying to solve.  Treating this kind of problem from the top of the carpet without removing the padding and cleaning the floor will result in additional damage being inflicted on your floor and make the problem much more difficult to eliminate in the long run. I have been there and done that in our rental properties before we discovered OdorXit in 1996.

Everyone wants a silver bullet, but I can assure you the enzymes are not the silver bullet if one does in fact exist at all.