The House Cat Diary

If you’re a kitty lover like me, then you may also suffer a lot like me especially with the cat’s urine smell. Many of us don’t know what to do with cat urine smell, on one hand there is the love for the cat but on the other how can one live in a house that smells of cat urine. Some of the cat owners can notice that their cat urinates in the carpet. It is a Herculean task to get rid of the cat urine odor removal from carpet.

About Cat Urine

The Cat’s urine is organic and it tends to give out a strong smell. Cats like to pee in different places because they want to mark their territory. Urine of the cat is composed of uric acid, urochrome and urea. The uric acid is the element that emits the stink smell. Urochrome is the pigment that gives color to the urine. Urea is the component that makes the urine sticky. Urine of the cat can cause the bacteria to accumulate on the carpet and make the environment unhygienic.

Properties of the Urine of Cat

Urine of the cat can destroy the hardwood floor because the wood can effectively absorb liquid. To clean up the urine, you should use an absorbent cloth to wipe out the urine soaked area such as the cotton cloth that can absorb the liquids well. The paper towels are used if you do not have cotton cloth. If the urine stain does not disappear, you can use a damp cloth to wipe it again.

How to Remove Cat Urine Smell from Carpet?

Most of the owners seek the help of different products available in the market to get rid of urine smell from the carpet. But most of them don’t know about the locally available items that will help to get rid of the bad odor from your carpet soiled with the urine of the cat.

Hydrogen Peroxide

Household cat urine removal carpet cleaners can be applied on the area that is stained with the cat urine. You can spray the hydrogen peroxide cleaner on the stained area to remove the stain. The odor will eliminate after you sprayed the hydrogen peroxide cleaner.

Vinegar

Vinegar will work as an effective cat urine removal cleaner as well. To use vinegar to remove the stain, you have to dilute it with about 30% of water. After that, you must pour in the vinegar mixture into a spray bottle and spay on the stained area. The urine will blot off by itself after a few minutes.

Ready made Carpet Cleaners

Many pet stores sell the cat urine removal carpet cleaners. The urine cleaners are formulated from special ingredients that are designed to eliminate the bacteria and remove the stain. Popular brand name urine cleaners include Nature’s Miracle and Stain Gobber.

Besides, you can use the carpet stain removal cleaner to remove the bacteria and enzymes from the urine of the cat. The carpet stain removal cleaner will make it easier for you to clean up the urine on a heavy-duty carpet.

Like many other forms of communication, biting is also a different form of communication especially noticeable in pets like Cats. The signs of cat biting are different in adult cats and kittens. While adult cats communicate that they no longer want you to touch them giving them feeling that they are threatened and the kitten will start biting as it is another form of play along with wrestling and scratching. Another sign of communicating through biting is hunting instincts, those that are evident from their natural defensive mechanism.

It is not always right on the issues discussed above, it imparts necessary advice to check with your Vet about your cat’s health issues, if there is any and lastly check on their behavioral issues. During their kitten stage, provided you closely teach your cat how to behave, allow the cat to adjust itself to you by your caressing movements and activities towards it.

Hairballs are cat furs formed inside the stomach when the cat tries to digest her own furs. Cats often develop hairball problem during the shedding season. If the cat keeps on shedding, it will have a high risk of swallowing the hair that drop on the ground resulting in eating some of it too. The hairball affects the digestion of the stomach and prevents the stomach juices from breaking down.

The cat hairball symptoms include appetite loss, vomiting and coughing. The hairball that is stuck in the throat caused the cat to keep on coughing, as if she wants to get rid of something from her mouth. One of the most common cat hairball symptoms include cat vomiting out the hairball. If the cat manages to vomit out the hairball, she will recover back to normal condition again.

In severe cases, the stomach of the cat will bulge and look swollen. It feels hard when you touch the stomach. The hard part is the furs accidentally swallowed into the stomach.

Cats that do not defecate may suffer with hairball problem. Such hairballs block the channel where the feces are to move out from the body. The blockages cause the cat unable to defecate. Cats that do not defecate suffer from serious disease because the body is unable to clear way the toxin. You will know if the cat is not defecating properly by observing the litter box. A clean litter box means that the cat has not been defecating.

The cat can suffer from a serious asthma attack if she is unable to cough out the hairball. An immediate step advised is to seek the attention of an experience veterinary doctor, if you find your cat is in exasperation or coughing for several days continuously. The veterinary doctor will perform a full body check to determine the cause of the condition.

The Cat urine removal home remedy is an alternative to the stain removal cleaner bought from the stores. The biggest advantage of using a cat urine removal home remedy is that it will not produce side effects. The resources for the home remedy found in the home allowing you to make the best use of them and there is no need to purchase them. Some of the home remedies that are frequently used include vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, enzymes and Gerbera Daisies plant.

Vinegar is a common home remedy that can remove the cat urine stain. Before applying the vinegar, you have to wipe up the spot with a dry cloth. After that, you should pour the vinegar solution on the carpet. The making of the vinegar solution is easy mixing of one part of vinegar and two parts of tap water. You should allow the water and vinegar solution to remain on the spot for some time. After a while, you can blot it with rag cloth and paper towel. You should keep on wiping the spot for several times until the cat urine stain is completely gone.

Hydrogen peroxide is a simple treatment that you can use to remove the cat urine. You have to pour the hydrogen peroxide into a bowl. The recommended dosage of the hydrogen peroxide is 15 ounces. Mix the hydrogen peroxide with some liquid soap and baking soda and apply to the affected area stained with cat urine.

Enzymes are also a popular cat urine removal home remedy. The enzymes are unavailable in pet stores; the janitorial stores offer enzymes at an affordable price. In enzymes the protein element, that with similar function to urea, break down the elements of the urine so that the stain and odor can be eliminated.

Besides, plants such as Gerbera Daisies also help in removing the cat urine. Gerbera Daisies is naturally absorbent to the ammonia found in cat urine and thus it can remove the cat urine odor.

Have you ever known cats left home alone develop stress? Yes!!! Most of the cats will develop boredom, stress or separation anxiety. Try to know how to cope up with this condition. One of my friends cat to nap away their day while he was gone.

How they spend home alone?

• Vomit while you’re gone
• Depressed -Many cats will slink, hide, and sulk, away from you
• Anxious - Some cats will vocalize and cry through out the day until you return
• Some cats will go anorectic 
• Destructive- Urine marking and defecate in the house

How to deal with this problem?

You can alleviate this problem of separation anxiety by following different enclosure enrichment methods. The common ways are-

•  Provide your cat with Cat sitter DVD or something like that
• Make your cat tired by playing with her before going out
• Try to provide a good cat tree andplace it near the window

Much of the time, your cat cannot come along. So try to follow these simple ways to get rid of separation anxiety in cats.

Thanks to the neuro-orthopaedic surgeon Noel Fitzpatrick, in Eashing, near Godalming.The surgery mimics the way in which deer antler bone grows through skin. Oscar, the cat lost his rear paws by a combine harvester as he basked in the sunshine. due to accident. His owners Kate and Mike Nolan ran helter-skelter to recove his paws. The local vet referred them to to Fitzpatrick Referrals in Eashing, near Godalming.

Dr.Noel Fitzpatrick worked with a team from University College London (UCL) to make use of the weight-bearing prosthetic implants. They operated Oscar for three hours to insert the pegs by drilling into both rear legs at ankle level. These artificial legs are attached to the bone at the site of amputation. Thentheartificialimplant was coated with hydroxyapatite that faciltates growth of bone cells onto the metal.

The skin also grows over this bone to resemble a natural limb.after four months of operation OSCAR able to walk and climb the steps without any difficult. Hats off to the Bionic vet!!!

The behavior of chasing starts when your cat is as kittens. Tossing, batting and poking around small objects are how kittens learn to stalk prey. One of my cat tossing a toy in the air, and then she run like crazy again. Do you know why? This is because cat family is known for chasing a prey to quench their thirst of hungry. In other words, chasing is their natural instinct.

When they chase a toy or a thing, it will develop the survival skills, which would help them provide for themselves if they ever needed to do so.

Have you ever seen you cat stomp on her toys? Yes they will! It is mainly due to the fact that your cat wants to hunt and kill the prey.

Cats are classified as a bugger, mouser or birder. This is nothing but the preference of cat towards the toy that mimics catching bugs, mice, or birds. These cat toys will stimulate them to interact.

There are many interactive toys available in the market that mimic the motions that cats love. Do gift these cat toys on your cat’s next birthday to enjoy the actions and movements involved with the process of hunting from which they create a form of play. Happy Toying!!!

This is a million dollar question asked by most of the cat owners. Nowadys most of the cat owners spayed their cats. Still some of them are having their cat not spayed. Accidental mating may cause your cat pregnant. If you want to worm your cat during pregnancy, you should be very careful. Some of the drugs are not at all adviced to use during pregnancy.

Drontal is a prominent wormer used for pets. It contains Praziquantel and pyrantel. This is safe for cats as it contains no drug that causes abortion in the pregnant cats. But if you use Drontal plus, which contains praziquantel, pyrantel and febantel. The ingredient febantel will cause birth defects as well as termination of pregnancy. Hence drontal plus is not advisable for pregnant cats.  More over, this  drug is meant for dogs only.