Love cats but not the smell?

[Jon A.]

Genius! I stumbled on it today. Not in a house? Route the ductwork through a window and seal off the rest of the opening.

[Electronic M]

Smell, what smell? Allergies inhibit my sense of smell in the presence of cats....I love them too much to care, though.

An uncle had a similar set up only the box was hidden under a built in couch in a furnished basement, and there was a lamp and exhaust fan...

[zeno]

Quite a rig. Start with dry food & you get rid of most the smell.
Alternative is to let them out but cant do that here anymore.
The coyotes & fisher cats make short work of them. Too bad,
nothing like watching a cat outside using its skills.
BTW had a bob cat in the yard last nite. They are pissah !

73 Zeno
LFOD !

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by zeno

Quite a rig. Start with dry food & you get rid of most the smell.
Alternative is to let them out but cant do that here anymore.
The coyotes & fisher cats make short work of them. Too bad,
nothing like watching a cat outside using its skills.
BTW had a bob cat in the yard last nite. They are pissah !

73 Zeno
LFOD !

They can be fairly awesome indoors if there is a significant amount of mice....Our last one was an indoor cat, and we have a cabin in the north woods that we would take her with us to. We skipped a few years, but she still knew her favorite spot to lay in wait for mice (ran right to it as soon as she was inside).

I'm trying to encourage my friend to get a cat...I just helped him move in to his first house this weekend, and there are mice there. I think he'll feel more at home with a cat there, and if it's presence don't keep the mice away then it's skills will eliminate the need to set traps.

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by zeno

Quite a rig. Start with dry food & you get rid of most the smell.
Alternative is to let them out but cant do that here anymore.
The coyotes & fisher cats make short work of them. Too bad,
nothing like watching a cat outside using its skills.
BTW had a bob cat in the yard last nite. They are pissah !

73 Zeno
LFOD !

Just a heads-up, some male cats can't tolerate a steady diet of dry food. I heard it took out my father's cat when he was under a year old, and that was the second time the problem surfaced. Something about crystalized urine.

Yeah Bobcats rock, especially the wagons after swapping in a 347 stroker motor and. 5-speed.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Jon A.

Just a heads-up, some male cats can't tolerate a steady diet of dry food. I heard it took out my father's cat when he was under a year old, and that was the second time the problem surfaced. Something about crystalized urine.

Our Female Calico did not like dry food much...She would eat it if hungry enough. I don't think we were able to make more than half her meals dry food...She would beg till she got real meat....And we gave her some good stuff too. She usually was able to mooch or was just given bites of whatever meat our dinners had....Some college students I knew might have been jealous.

Originally Posted by Jon A.

Yeah Bobcats rock, especially the wagons after swapping in a 347 stroker motor and. 5-speed.

They are great at removing small trees and replacing a small crew of diggers too.

[Titan1a]

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[Jon A.]

Saw this at Canadian Tire while getting supplies for rebuilding the framework of my Heathkit GR-370.

Neat device for sure, but I doubt it's the first of its kind. What really caught my eye and made me laugh was the Spanish translation of the third step.

[Kamakiri]

I have two cats and no smell. Regular weekly litter changes with a quality litter make all the difference. Sure, those self cleaning litter boxes can scoop up the turds, but they also stir up the remaining litter creating a bad ammonia smell.

Stay away from the cheap litter and go with Tidy Cat (clumping or non) and you'll never have an odor issue.

[Dude111]

Ahhhhhhhh I love kitty cats so much


Meow!!

[Electronic M]

Avoid clumping litter. It tends to stick to paws, the cats then lick it off, it settles in their stomach and can form large concretions...

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Kamakiri

I have two cats and no smell. Regular weekly litter changes with a quality litter make all the difference. Sure, those self cleaning litter boxes can scoop up the turds, but they also stir up the remaining litter creating a bad ammonia smell.

Stay away from the cheap litter and go with Tidy Cat (clumping or non) and you'll never have an odor issue.

When my sister gave me my "Spooky" almost 19 years ago, she also included a 20LB bag of Tidy Cats litter. She said "always use this brand and you'll never have a cat odor and change it often".
I still have her, but old age is creeping up on her.

[DavGoodlin]

That is a great set-up, direct ducted from the continually-offending source with a small "muffin fan". I put a 200 cfm version in our attic, to exhaust two bathrooms. Fantech makes them in all sizes but a radon fan may be the ticket for a continuous extraction. https://www.discountfilters.com/rado...PLA%20(UKF8001)

Another cat lesson: 6 years ago we made the mistake of adopting two male kittens and keeping both in the house, 3 cats total. The established female ( now 11 and 18 lbs ) went into hiding and the two unrelated brothers decided to have a "1-2 competition" which landed them both outside a year later. One is now almost seven and lives in my garage, eating Purina One - special urinary tract health formula. He also kills anything that would enter the garage, fur and feathers are sometimes found under a TV
The other left the day after the 2012 election, moving to a house-barn property a half mile up the road. I scooped him up for burial last year after he was hit on the road, never telling the kids.

All through this drama the female is a good pet litterbox wise, hangs out up stairs and fills the role of dog in a way. A cat door is on the basement door, keeping her smells down there. The clumping stuff gets saturated and then needs changed after a few weekly scoop-outs of the clumps, so its not perfect stuff. It should all be dumped monthly.

[DavGoodlin]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

When my sister gave me my "Spooky" almost 19 years ago, she also included a 20LB bag of Tidy Cats litter. She said "always use this brand and you'll never have a cat odor and change it often".
I still have her, but old age is creeping up on her.

Way to go Dave, 19 years is a testament to care! My wife's parents have a 20 year old tabby female and two outside cats. Its so sad to see the lurking cats common to our farming area get fed but go unnoticed and no vet visits. You need to catch them and take'em in for shots, spaying-etc or else they won't get past 5.

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by DavGoodlin

That is a great set-up, direct ducted from the continually-offending source with a small "muffin fan". I put a 200 cfm version in our attic, to exhaust two bathrooms. Fantech makes them in all sizes but a radon fan may be the ticket for a continuous extraction. https://www.discountfilters.com/rado...PLA%20(UKF8001)

Self-cleaning box plus exhaust pipe, but with flexible ductwork for the last few feet so the box can be up-ended when needed, bingo.

Maybe others of its type can be cleaned out without up-ending, I don't know.

Work smarter, not harder to retire el excremento.