Do you worry about your home having that "kitty" smell?

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I do.....whenever someone comes over, I ask, "do you smell the kits?" No body has said they do, although in the heat of the summer, when you go down in the basement where their food and litter is, you can smell them....the humidity doesn't help. When we first got Trixie, and I was new at this kitty stuff, I tried buying the cheapest cat litter I could find.......well, I soon learned that the more expensive stuff really does keep the odors down/gone!
 

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I used to, but not so much anymore - since their litterbox is in our bedroom, and the door is usually partially shut, so they can have their privacy


I constantly have candles burning (not for that reason, only b/c I love them! ) But I've never had anyone say that they can smell them, or their box or anything
 

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Try living with both boys in 750 square feet! I do my best to keep the smell down, but really there is only so much you can do.
 
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Originally Posted by lookingglass

Try living with both boys in 750 square feet! I do my best to keep the smell down, but really there is only so much you can do.
That's right.....there's only so much we can do!
 

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Yeah, I worry alot... and I keep the litter way in the back of the house.... and I don't ever smell anything... but I have gone to people's houses where you can really smell cat urine, or dander, or both.... and I hate that smell... it gives me the allergies.... but I don't even get them in my house. Still I worry, you know the saying a fox can't smell his own hole?
 

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Now that the kittens are out of their bathroom, the smell has diminished to almost nothing (unless Ruby takes a big stinky poo
). I've also just gone from Feline Pine for the kitten box to Scoop Away because I figure they are old enough now. For a while, when the kittens were confined pretty much all the time, that whole side of the house smelled like Hades.
 

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I don't usually worry about it too much. But whenever someone comes to visit (and I swear they do this on purpose), one of mine will go and take a gigantic poop (and not cover it). They always look so smug after then do that!!!
 

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Honestly, I know my house smells like kitties, and dogs for that matter
with as many as I have, there is no getting around it, but i very rarely have people over so it doesn't matter!
I live in about 980 sq feet, but one bedroom is closed off, so I have 2 litter boxes in my bathroom, one in my Bedroom, and 3 in my kitchen, I am surrounded by litterboxes
I scoop everyday, and use baking powder, but i can't control it all. I don't really notice it, but i know its there
 

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I don't see any reason a house would smell because you have kitties. Unless someone has just taken a poop and not covered it up, there's nothing to smell.

Once in a while I will ask people who have just entered the house whether or not they smell animals, but no one ever has. My garbage can smells from the canned cat food dishes (I use disposables and never rinse them out enough), but that is out in the garage.

We scoop twice a day into tiny plastic bags and seal them up before tossing them in the garage as well, so no smell there, either.

In days of old when all you had was that terrible clay litter, cat box odors were pretty much a given. But we are so blessed with New! and Improved! products that we really have it easy IMO.
 

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I don't worry about it too much. I'm lucky that I have an oversized, sort of out of the way closet where I keep two of the litter boxes, so that really helps. People are always amazed when they visit and I tell them I four cats, because they don't detect any "kitty" smell. The toys and cat hair are a dead giving, though!
 
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Originally Posted by katiemae1277

Honestly, I know my house smells like kitties, and dogs for that matter
with as many as I have, there is no getting around it, but i very rarely have people over so it doesn't matter!
I live in about 980 sq feet, but one bedroom is closed off, so I have 2 litter boxes in my bathroom, one in my Bedroom, and 3 in my kitchen, I am surrounded by litterboxes
I scoop everyday, and use baking powder, but i can't control it all. I don't really notice it, but i know its there
Katie, as long as you do your best, that's all you can do. The love you give these sweet babies outweighs any kitty smell you might have!
 

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THe only room that smells like kitty is my downstairs bathroom. We don't usually have anyone to use it but one friend does and says it does smell like kitty but he seems to always pick to go in right after one of the girls has a nice smelly poo!
 

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I dont worry about it anymore since I met the love of my life. That is a 5lb tub of baking soda. 3 cups mixed in with each litter box change and the smell is gone. It drove me crazy when our Samuel was still intact and spraying all over the place. He thankfully quit after he was snipped. Now the clock is ticking for Bull. He has to weigh five pounds or be six months old....come on lil man fatten up for momma.
 

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Heh, I don't care... I've certainly never asked anyone if they can smell the cats! The house is closed up all day, and gets kinda warm, and the litter tray is in the lounge room, so there is a smell when we first get home. As soon as we open up the windows it clears pretty fast. It's not a bad smell, just a "smell".

When Lily does a poo MAN it stinks!!!!! How can such a little cat do such big smelly poos???? We haven't had people over since we got her, and she's fairly timid, so hopefully when we have people over she'll hold off until they're gone


The cats are clean, I scoop the litter box regularly and don't leave wet food sitting in their bowls, so am pretty confident if there's a smell in the house, it's probably not them
 

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Anyone thats come to my home have said they can't smell cats at all, and Gil said you wouldn't even know i had them because he couldnt smell them, well until Sophie paid a visit on the litter tray that is while he was painting


I use those plug in air freshners as well.
 
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