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I have an evaporation cooler and before I adopted my cat I would put drops of essential oil in the water to give the cooled air a nice aroma. I stopped doing it when I adopted my cat after reading that essential oils are too strong for cats. It may not have been an issue in an evap cooler, it's nowhere near as concentrated as an aromatherapy diffuser or whatever you normally use essential oils with. Still I could smell it so it's probably much stronger for a cat.
I recently put a new media pad in the cooler... I'm a little paranoid about mold so I soaked it in a mold blocker first... well seems it backfired as now there's a weird tinny sent coming from the cooler. (at least it's not mold I guess)
So now I'd like to put oils in to mask that scent. But obviously it has to be something that is safe and pleasant for the kitty, and preferably one that relaxes him. There seems to be mixed things about lavender... that was one of my favorites earlier. I definitely won't use peppermint though I liked that before because it almost seemed to make the air feel cooler. I know there's catnip essential oils but I don't want the kitty to go crazy.
I'll probably only use just enough to mask whatever that scent is until it goes away. As long as I don't accidently leave the oil out concentrated I feel pretty sure there's not much issue in diluting it in four gallons of water and putting it through an evap cooler, but I of course I want to err on the side of caution.
I recently put a new media pad in the cooler... I'm a little paranoid about mold so I soaked it in a mold blocker first... well seems it backfired as now there's a weird tinny sent coming from the cooler. (at least it's not mold I guess)
So now I'd like to put oils in to mask that scent. But obviously it has to be something that is safe and pleasant for the kitty, and preferably one that relaxes him. There seems to be mixed things about lavender... that was one of my favorites earlier. I definitely won't use peppermint though I liked that before because it almost seemed to make the air feel cooler. I know there's catnip essential oils but I don't want the kitty to go crazy.
I'll probably only use just enough to mask whatever that scent is until it goes away. As long as I don't accidently leave the oil out concentrated I feel pretty sure there's not much issue in diluting it in four gallons of water and putting it through an evap cooler, but I of course I want to err on the side of caution.