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Tips for getting rid of cat sand/litter smell?

Hi!

So curious if anyone has any tips regarding this. We have our cat litter in the washroom of the house. The current cat sand we use has a distinct smell. While we are experimenting with different types of sand, they all, so far, have some sort of smell to them. Obviously it will also smell extra bad whenever the cats use the litter box. While we do remove the litter as soon as possible, we are curious if there are ways to at least mask the smell of the sand with something else… Anyone got any tips?

masterspace ,

Use unscented, clumping, cat litter. Good unscented cat litter doesn’t really smell like much of anything.

Run your bathroom fan, it will suck clean air from your house into the bathroom and flush it out so that even as you approach the bathroom youl be smelling air from the rest of the house and bad odours won’t build up.

Scoop the soiled, clumped litter into a green bin, and then tie the bag closed between scoopings.

Avoid “light weight” litter, that just means it’s lots of fine particles that are more likely to fly around.

Etterra ,

Also, you have cat. You will never get rid of the smell completely. In fact, you are discovering why the U-trap pipe was invented. It traps a small amount of clean water in the U which prevents sewer gas from coming up out of the toilet. Anyway this person’s got a pretty good handle on the situation. Just remember to wash your hands when you’re done.

somethingsomethingidk ,

From wikipedia

It was invented by Alexander Cumming in 1775 but became known as the U-bend following the introduction of the U-shaped trap by Thomas Crapper in 1880

Are you shitting me?

Brunbrun6766 ,
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This is what’s wrong with America, we used to have good names, strong manly names like these

masterspace ,

18th century America:

My name’s Alex Cumming, and I’m here to stop that pipe smell.

🫤

My name’s Tom Crapper and I’m here to stop that pipe smell.

😍

tiotok ,

We use a pure-clay, non-clumping litter for that reason. I hate the chemical smell of the clumping litters. I’ve also heard really great things about wood pellets.

driving_crooner ,
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Dis you try wood pellets?

LaserTurboShark69 ,

Wood pellets have been a big revelation in the cat department of my life

Sunny OP ,

Not seen that as an option in the close-by shops, but I could perhaps widen my search for this!

driving_crooner ,
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You can look for them on hardware stores too, they’re cheaper there.

Lemmeenym ,

You’re best off going to tractor supply or something similar for wood pellets. You want horse bedding. It is much cheaper.

captain_aggravated ,
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Hmm…I"m a woodworker, I have access to barrels of sawdust…do cats like to go in sawdust?

driving_crooner ,
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Can’t say, the best thing of the pellets os that they dissolve when they piss on, so you can filter the dirty wood for the clean one.

Venator ,

Might be bad for thier lungs if it goes in the air when they dig. The wood pellets look like some sort of compressed sawdust, so maybe there’s a way to make the sawdust a bit less… dusty?

captain_aggravated ,
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Pause for a moment to be a woodworking nerd: Not all “sawdust” is alike. There’s an entire science behind chip formation , and in a wood shop the type, shape and size of chips varies widely depending on the cutter and operation. Wood shops produce shavings of all sizes from hand plane shavings which resemble paper tape to sanding swarf which is microscopic powder. If I were to choose from my own various production of wood chips to use as cat litter, I think I’d go for planer/jointer shavings which are confetti-like and similar to what they used to sell as rodent bedding, like the cedar chips you’re warned not to use for hamsters anymore. I would also try to choose a wood that is less aromatic than a softwood, maybe something like ash, maple or oak.

Apparently those wood pellets (often manufactured as a surprisingly efficient stove fuel but other uses abound) are made first by putting wood through a hammer mill which produces a homogeneous dough-like substance, which is then extruded through a die which has the effect of plasticizing the lignin turning it into basically tree hamburger. Same chemical makeup as wood but none of the original structure. I imagine this could be made of practically any size of shavings, chips or swarf.

gdog05 ,

I assume you’re referring to the clay litter? You probably just want an air purifier. You will have litter smell and dust for a short time is all. The one problem, is that the fine clay dust will make mincemeat out of most purifiers. You’ll want a good one with easily replaceable filters or easy to clean filters. If they’re replaceable, cost is also a factor. Or, you can get two furnace filters and rubber band it onto either side of a box fan and use a smart plug to run it now and then.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

There are for sure brands that are more perfumed than others, and there are some that are unscented. Of course, the scent is there too mask the pee smell. We use scoop away, which is scented, but not heavily so.

We have a covered litterbox with a little charcoal filter in the lid, and that helps some. Also, since we have dogs who like to look for cat poo roca, we have ours in a closet with the sliding door open just enough for the cat, and that helps too.

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