"How to clean up cat urine or poo"
If you don't clean it up thoroughly, the cat is likely to go again in the
same spot. Clean up when your cat is not in the room. It may otherwise think
its marks gets your attention!
Never use bleaches or disinfectants. They smell like urine to a cat, so does
anything pine, rose or lemon scented.
Use warm water with ten per cent solution of biological liquid or powder.
(One suggestion is one tablespoon of Napisan AND one tablespoon of
biological washing powder to one pint of water.) Then rise the area
thoroughly in cold water and let it dry or dry it with a hair dryer if time
presses.
Next spray or apply some other way surgical spirit. Use a nail brush to get
this into fabric and crevices. This gets rid of the fatty residues that
prompt a cat to top up his own marks. Dry this off completely.
Patch-test cleaning on a small area in case it removes dyes from carpets or
polish from furniture.
DIFFICULT AREAS
The edge where the skirting board meets a laminating flooring will have a
pool of spray urine if the site has been used repeatedly. Use a silicon
sealant between the two. Then cover with heavy varnish of the sort used to
varnish boats to make a barrier between the sprayed urine pool area and the
outside world.
The intersection between tiles. This too collects a pool. Clean the tiles
then put the heavy boat varnish in the intersection or even over all the
tile surface as well.
Cement floor. Wash and clean with a biological cleaner first and let dry out
for two to three weeks. If the urine marking has gone on for ages, paint
concrete floor with heavy paint as a sealant. Whether painting or not, put a
sheet of heavy duty polythene (the sort builders mix concrete on) under the
carpet underlay before putting on clean carpet.
Wooden plank floor. The urine pool will have been created between the
planks. Lift carpet, clean boards and remove any rotten wood. Leave to dry
two to three weeks. Use heavy paint as a sealant. Wait for two or three
months to make marking is over. Cover the planks with a polythene sheet as a
barrier before putting down new carpet. If worried, put an additional sheet
of polythene between the carpet and the underlay so if the worst happens,
the underlay isn't ruined and it will be easier to clean up.
Carpet cleaning. If carpet has been used for urine for a long time, consider
replacing with new rather than just shampooing etc.
AFTER CLEANING
When the area is thoroughly cleaned and completely dry, take a plain white
piece of cloth and rub this round your cat's cheeks. Then apply the cloth to
the place where the cat sprayed. Do this daily (or twice daily for an indoor
cat) for about a month.
If your cat will be frightened or spooked by the cloth technique use Feliway
spray obtainable from your vet. In this case, do not use Feliway spray
directly on the cleaned site for 24 hours. Cover the cleaned site with
clingfilm and then spray on the cling film. 24 hours later remove cling film
and spray Feliway directly on the area.
OTHER FABRICS
Send curtains etc to dry cleaners. Wash duvet covers and bedlinen. With
moveable mats and small carpets get these cleaned somehow if you can. Throw
away if you cannot clean. Before putting these back use the white cloth or
Feliway on the previously soiled area. Do not try to save money on cleaning
because in the long run the more thorough you are, the cheaper it all will
be. A spraying or pooing cat can cause a lot of grief and nothing is too
much to stop it early on.
This article reprinted with permission
from
Celia Haddon
http://www.celiahaddon.co.uk/
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