Hello, everyone! A 22-year-old girl I am. I am currently caring for 2 cats. I feel dirty all the time, I feel my home dirty. I clean a lot every day - I brush my hair, I wash the toilets every day even though one of the cats is closed, I wipe everything - dust, cat's footsteps, meta, I wash the floor, etc. But I still feel dirty at home. Somehow the air seems heavy. I try to ventilate, but with these cats my work smells ... I take a bath every day, wash my hands constantly and I still have the feeling that I live in misery, and this is not the case. It's like I'm kind of ... dirty. I lived with my boyfriend until recently. There we were in a bigger apartment and we locked the cats separately, their toilets were far apart and we generally didn't let them in much with each other. We also lived on the 3rd floor and I could ventilate very nicely by opening the doors on the terraces and the current would be nice, but here where I am now there is no way. My friend left for a while and now I am in a one-bedroom apartment with a kitchen, bathroom, toilet and hallway, which are separate. I am on the first floor and I do not have a terrace. How do I clean to neutralize cat odors ... it still stinks, it's awful.
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I also have a cat that has been neutered. I use a silicone toilet and I don't smell anything. There is no getting rid of the hair, I clean it from time to time, but I can't do it all the time. nor do I wash my hands constantly. I think this is a disease, but it is also harmful to the skin.
You sound like a slave to these pets and I wonder if they bring you as much joy as care and negative emotions? Houses with a cat always smell. Owners are usually accustomed to this for a long time and even claim that it does not smell, but it does not. And it smells and has hair, it's obviously inevitable.
As a person who has been through such a period, it is possible to develop OCD-Obsessive Compulsive Disorder without realizing it. You have obsessive thoughts, you wash a lot (this is called a ritual). I'm not a psychiatrist, but I've been to one, I've taken medication to recover, it took me 3-4 years to recover, but once this thing germinates once, 99% may not be there, but 1% are left with the opportunity to come back. I still have my cat, I will never leave her, but the hair, the toilet - no way, there are many, I developed an allergy because of her, with altered mucosa according to a doctor (ENT) By the way, here's a "fact". Cats are often spreaders of the parasite Toxoplasmosis, which is generally dormant in the human brain, according to Americans, 50% of the world is infected without symptoms, BUT according to various studies (read American articles, not Bulgarian),
People, stop. What is this delusion that prevails that cats smell and in the houses of people with cats stink. God! It smells where the owners do NOT know how to look after the animals. I have a 4-year-old female kitten, neutered, only a silicone toilet. I change it every two weeks, wash the toilet with alcohol and domestos. For the hair I use rollers from IKEA and I decide the kitten separately. NO smell and hair! Anyone who enters the house is surprised to see a cat. She is polite and only goes to the toilet, nowhere else. I don't know ... I don't know how you look at these animals to make it stink like that. Author, I know this feeling, but I think the problem is only in the head. Aren't you using silicone?
Cats wash until they stop smelling their own. The human sense of smell is incomparably weaker than the cat's - so don't tell me you smell like cats. Another issue is if you do not clean well - then the human toilet does not smell like violets, if not maintained.
Number 5, don't fool people! Silicone because it is something so, more modern ... but the silicone does not absorb like the other - I don't know if it is sand, but with it only what is visibly wet has retained all the urine, everything around it is completely dry and purely, simply nothing reaches him.
Give the kittens to someone who will be happy, and if you want to go to a psychologist.
Number 6, number 5. Welcome home. I don't know if you've seen a kitten. Those who raise a kitten and use silicone know what I'm talking about. There is no smell, neither at home nor around the house. By the way, I realized that the Chinese have stopped producing silicone, which makes me a little scared of what I'm going to do, but there's always a solution. Until then, just try and see for yourself.