From your own experience, which is the best product to neutralise / eliminate cat litter box smells?
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Carmella
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A daily cleaning of the litter box and maybe twice a day. Adding baking soda will help but nothing will eliminate cat smell completely. I can enter a home that is spotless and tell you if they have cats. Either get rid of the cats or deal with by making their bathroom area as clean as possible by removing feces and urine after every usage. mr Bill
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Try bleach. That seems to work really well at neutralizing the odor.
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There are some cat litters which have chlorophyl mixed in....some with charcoal....all kinds of claims for no odour. However, nothing works 100% if the litter has been urinated into. My best solution was to get the clumping kind and remove the wet clump EVERY time there was one, or as often as possible. Then deposit it in a tight lidded container (I used plastic containers like margerine). This container was emptied into the outside trash every couple of days and then that container discarded into the recyclables.....and a new clean one used for the next couple of days. Seemed to work.
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Baking soda.
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A little jar of ammonia crystals with a lid on it. You lift the lid and the an the ammonia neutralizes many odors such as fried fish, dirty diapers, and cat urine.
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I have three cats and we change the litter and wash the pan out after every little change. We use bleach to clean it and we use Tidy cat litter. That does it for us. We change it three times a week.
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There are also products you can get at most pet stores that contain enzymes that actually do eliminate the cause of the odors. They aren't cheap though. Most are advertised as products for cleaning rugs and upholstery, but the spray versions of some can also be used right in the litter. Still, I have to agree with Mr. Bill. though. The most effective way to deal is to keep the box clean. Labor intensive? It may seem that way if you're thinking of what you go through when you clean it every few days or so, but the truth is, it really doesn't take all that much to scoop out what you see each time you see it. Keep a stack of small disposable bags near the box, toss the clumps in a bag, then place the bag in whichever trash can you throw out on a daily basis. If you don't have time for that, then yes, you are resigned to attempting to cover the odor, and I've found baking soda to be the least problematic, even if not truly the best masking agent. It's cheap, most people already have it in the house, and it does an acceptable job.
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get rid of the cat.
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