Noah & me (GA)
Member Since 2016
I've put this in Feline Health because our cats (and maybe kids) walk through this gross stuff. How would you feel sitting down on a **** covered toilet seat?
After 14 cats in 21 years I've found some nasty stuff in the basement. We have a lot of crap down there with a lot of nooks and crannies, private places where some cats prefer to have their vomit and diarrhea episodes. Concrete is porous so you'll never really get it out but the alternative, the epoxy based coating is obscenely expensive.
The toxic cleaners are obviously out leaving dish soap, dish soap left under piddle pads and even locking the cats out and using bleach, then gallons of hot water and more soap. What does work is so simple and cheap it's ridiculous. Baking soda and Hydrogen Peroxide mixed into a paste like peanut butter, left for 30 minutes and then scraped off with a metal drywall scraper. For good measure I wash the floors once more with hot water. Walmart sells enormous 2 kg. boxes of baking soda and 1 litre jugs of peroxide for an unbelievably low price.
Since there are many more important threads in this forum so all I ask is to keep your comments to a minimum.
There is some science about the toxicity of baking soda and hydrogen peroxide to cats when ingested in large amounts. What they consider a 'large amount' is not mentioned.
https://ourfitpets.com/health/digestive-system/my-cat-ate-baking-soda-what-should-i-do/
https://www.hyaenidae.org/is-cleaning-with-peroxide-safe-for-cats/
After 14 cats in 21 years I've found some nasty stuff in the basement. We have a lot of crap down there with a lot of nooks and crannies, private places where some cats prefer to have their vomit and diarrhea episodes. Concrete is porous so you'll never really get it out but the alternative, the epoxy based coating is obscenely expensive.
The toxic cleaners are obviously out leaving dish soap, dish soap left under piddle pads and even locking the cats out and using bleach, then gallons of hot water and more soap. What does work is so simple and cheap it's ridiculous. Baking soda and Hydrogen Peroxide mixed into a paste like peanut butter, left for 30 minutes and then scraped off with a metal drywall scraper. For good measure I wash the floors once more with hot water. Walmart sells enormous 2 kg. boxes of baking soda and 1 litre jugs of peroxide for an unbelievably low price.
Since there are many more important threads in this forum so all I ask is to keep your comments to a minimum.
There is some science about the toxicity of baking soda and hydrogen peroxide to cats when ingested in large amounts. What they consider a 'large amount' is not mentioned.
https://ourfitpets.com/health/digestive-system/my-cat-ate-baking-soda-what-should-i-do/
https://www.hyaenidae.org/is-cleaning-with-peroxide-safe-for-cats/
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