Author Topic: Cat litterbox MAME...eeeewwww!!! (Read 7642 times)

ArtMAME · « **on:** June 24, 2006, 11:20:25 pm »

Greetings fellow BYOACers!!!

Me and a buddy scored an old half-finished cabinet, but the guy who had it before had lots of cats, and they got into the cabinet somehow. Now we made a very important scientific discovery today, if you let cats into your cabinet, or any other little furry animal, they will use it as a litterbox.

This cabinet wreeks of cat piss!!! Meeeeeow!!! Psssssssss... Meeeeeeow!!!

Has anybody been able to get cat piss smell out of their cabinets?

I saw the smoker's smell post said try Fabreeze and incence or Scent-away from Walmart. I may try these, has anybody had success with these?

PCtech · « **Reply #1 on:** June 24, 2006, 11:28:24 pm »

Can't speak @ cabs, but my parents have a bizillion cats....no way to get rid of the smell...

from carpets at least....they still have a car that reaks when the cat pissed on the way to the vet, They tried just about everything at the time.
IF you do find anything let us know.

Good Luck!

Cameronj · « **Reply #2 on:** June 24, 2006, 11:36:22 pm »

Try giving it a good coat of febreeze letting it sit overnight and then wiping it up the next day. Repeat this for about 4 to 5 nights in a row. It may not completely take care of it, but it will probably reduce the smell a lot!

arcadepcnut · « **Reply #3 on:** June 25, 2006, 12:39:08 am »

I have cats and can speak from experience. Febreze might mask the odor for a few days but cat piss is ammonia and febreze is fro freshening air. Wouldnt waste my time with it. You best and only option is to get oxyclean powder mix some in a gallon hot water and wipe the insides down best you can. Too much water and the particle board will swell and chip. its still your best option.

Guy with cat urine in car....try oxyclean.

Tahnok · « **Reply #4 on:** June 25, 2006, 03:33:58 am »

Don't bother with the store bought stuff. It may work a little bit, but it will come back. The only solution that works is the following formula (just mix the ingredients together). This is an old remedy that was developed for skunk odor.

15 oz. of 3% hydrogen peroxide
2 level teaspoons of baking soda
a few drops of dishwashing soap

That works wonders for carpet (soak the area with it and it will completely disappear, use a black light). I'm not sure what it will do with wood though, as moisture is generally the MAME cabs enemy and you have to pretty much soak the area with this stuff. I couldn't see it being any worse than the other things mentioned though.

danny_galaga · « **Reply #5 on:** June 25, 2006, 05:37:57 am »

if you have an undercover outside area like a carport or porch, it would be best to leave it there and open up everything you can. the smell will go in time. of course if you leave it TOO long other cats will come along once the old smell clears...

alomar721 · « **Reply #6 on:** June 25, 2006, 08:34:08 am »

i would try urine be gone its a spray and it comes with a black light. also i would get a bottle of damp rid ,it comes in a cup that helps with damp areas might work with smell. i know that bed bath and beyond carries it. i work there.

ArtMAME · « **Reply #7 on:** June 25, 2006, 10:59:20 am »

The cabinet was in my garage and I left the garage door open while I go back in the house...I come back 5 minutes later and what do I see???

Darn neighbor's cat looking to get into the cabinet...

Kitty!!! Get the

out of here!!!... I yell... The cat sCATters... (ba-dum tish...)

NOTE:
(No cats were harmed in the making of this post)

Cameronj · « **Reply #8 on:** June 25, 2006, 01:19:07 pm »

Oh I might also mention on the Febreeze, you need to use the one for taking smells out of fabric. Not the air freshener stuff. It is different and getting hard to find these days.

Izrun · « **Reply #9 on:** June 25, 2006, 02:25:56 pm »

You can do your best to clean the inside, and then paint it. I don't know for sure, but I bet cat urine would have a hard time getting through latex paint. You could even use a shellac primer on the inside. I would be surprised if that didn't work.

Pipercub · « **Reply #10 on:** June 25, 2006, 02:31:38 pm »

The wife's cat whizzed in our Porsche back in Jan on the way back from being fixed at the vet. That car still reeks of cat whiz each day you get into it and thank god the lease is up and it is going away next month.

Q*Bert_OP · « **Reply #11 on:** June 25, 2006, 03:23:09 pm »

I don't know about cat piss, but if you remove everything from the cab, take a large can of Ozium, and spray every surface in the cab...as you would spraypaint something...it works really well for smoke odors....

MYX · « **Reply #12 on:** June 25, 2006, 03:23:26 pm »

Dude, that sux!

Go to petco and get some of that pet solution. It has all sorts of enzymes that kill the smell. We have had to use it more than once because our

cat decided that she should

right outside the laundry room. We use this stuff and within about 16 hours you can not smell it. But on partical board or MDF, this might be dangerous. Then again, which is worse.

ArtMAME · « **Reply #13 on:** June 25, 2006, 09:27:30 pm »

I tried some Fabreeze, but then it just smelled like cat piss and Fabreeze...

So now I just put a coat of Killz2 primer on the bottom panel since it looked like it was soaked with cat pee. I will put some more coats on later to see if that works. I think I will coat the whole inside of the cab with primer then paint it.

lustreking · « **Reply #14 on:** June 25, 2006, 09:58:37 pm »

Quote from: MYX on June 25, 2006, 03:23:26 pm

Go to petco and get some of that pet solution.

Nature's Miracle is what it's called and works pretty well. Don't know how it will work for wood though.

I actually have a brochure for kilz on my desk now and they recommend their oil based primer for covering up pet odors. Kilz 2 is water based.

MiKman · « **Reply #15 on:** June 25, 2006, 10:20:08 pm »

I dunno if you have access to Zep Alcare but if you do they have something called odor destroyer that works like a damn. Got rid of cat pee in a house I renovated where it was soaked into the hardwood floors. Took several applications and weeks, but eventually it was gone.

Brax · « **Reply #16 on:** June 26, 2006, 08:03:40 am »

Fire.
Fire will definitely work.

ArtMAME · « **Reply #17 on:** June 26, 2006, 09:40:10 am »

Yeah...Yeah...FIRE!!!...FIRE!!!...

Huhuhu...Fire RULES!!!

jcroach · « **Reply #18 on:** June 26, 2006, 10:46:47 am »

Get a pet urine specific product with enymzes as MYX recommended. Then prime the hell out of it as ArtMAME and Izrun recommended.

MYX · « **Reply #19 on:** June 26, 2006, 11:38:21 am »

Quote from: lustreking on June 25, 2006, 09:58:37 pm

Kilz 2 is water based.

So is cat piss.

ArtMAME · « **Reply #20 on:** June 26, 2006, 12:45:56 pm »

RayB · « **Reply #21 on:** June 26, 2006, 03:15:17 pm »

Is the bottom of the cab bare particle (or MDF) wood? That stuff is like a sponge. You might be best off cutting out the bottom and putting a new bottom in.

ArtMAME · « **Reply #22 on:** June 26, 2006, 03:41:41 pm »

The bottom is plywood, but the rest of the cab is particle board.

hypernova · « **Reply #23 on:** June 26, 2006, 05:33:18 pm »

I second RayB's suggestion. For all these crazy ideas of numerous solutions (that may NOT work,) the simplest and easiest thing to do would have to be just remove it, and install a new one.

Consider this: If this bottom is reeking of cat urine, could it have become structurally weakened it any way?

Scrub down the rest of the insides, then paint the bejesus out of it. Especially the bottom 1' of the sides, back, and front. (Possible splash factor...ewwwww.)

johnperkins21 · « **Reply #24 on:** June 26, 2006, 07:12:50 pm »

Cut off the bottom half and turn it into a really big bartop.

ArtMAME · « **Reply #25 on:** June 26, 2006, 07:16:36 pm »

That's a good one!!!

Big ol' 27" bartop!!! That is the most original idea I have heard so far

davieboynj · « **Reply #26 on:** June 27, 2006, 10:44:28 pm »

try odo-ban. it's the only thing that can tame my hockey equipment...

arcadepcnut · « **Reply #27 on:** June 29, 2006, 07:36:32 am »

I just tried the peroxide and backing soda and dish washing liquid mix and I must say Im amazed. its doesnt show urine under a black light anymore and the smell is gone. For carpet Im really impressed. for mdf not sure if it would be the best option but its better than the ammonia smell option. Soooo just my two cents.

RayB · « **Reply #28 on:** June 30, 2006, 11:01:43 am »

It shows under blacklight?? Do you have to wear those orange glasses like on CSI?

ArtMAME · « **Reply #29 on:** August 02, 2006, 01:00:48 pm »

I made another important scientific discovery.

Cat piss is extremely corrosive

!!!

The cabinet had a brand new 27" VGA monitor in it, and some of the catpiss found its way into the VGA connector. Now the first few times I fired it up it worked very well. Then several weeks went by and I started to do some more testing on the monitor. I pull out the VGA connector and one of the pins stays in the computer's VGA port!!! I go "WTF"...

I look at the connector and another pin falls out like a loose tooth...

Holy crap, this VGA connector has tooth decay

!!!

More pins keep falling out, so I am currently performing surgery on the cable by grafting a cable from a good VGA connector onto the monitor cable. I am grafting the cables together. The wires inside the VGA cable are very thin. Hope everything goes well.

AllisterFiend · « **Reply #30 on:** August 02, 2006, 08:01:20 pm »

Another product you might want to consider is Urine-off.

http://www.urine-off.com/

Allister Fiend

ArtMAME · « **Reply #31 on:** August 02, 2006, 09:29:36 pm »

The VGA cable surgery was a success!!! It is UGLY but it works. Now for some more testing with the monitor...

Update on the catpiss:

I covered the bottom of the cabinet with some particle board and sealed the edges with some caulking...That seems to "contain" the smell

...sort of the same way that Reactor #4 was contained at Chernobyl... just encase it so the radioactivity can't get out...

I still smell traces of it from time to time... but it is not as bad as it used to be...

I think I will look into removing the bottom and replacing it with a new one...I might as well since I am planning to put the newly repaired 27" monitor in there...

jhanson · « **Reply #32 on:** August 02, 2006, 10:04:38 pm »

It sounds like it's too late, but what about TSP? I used it to get the smoke smell out of an entire house.

koolmoecraig · « **Reply #33 on:** August 03, 2006, 01:32:35 pm »

From my experience, you will never get that smell out.

RayB · « **Reply #34 on:** August 03, 2006, 04:10:34 pm »

F***king cats!!

Brad · « **Reply #35 on:** August 03, 2006, 05:30:42 pm »

So many cats........so few recipes........

Brad

ArtMAME · « **Reply #36 on:** August 03, 2006, 06:03:57 pm »

Messages that you do not want to find inside a fortune cookie...

$:-\$

PetitMorte · « **Reply #37 on:** August 04, 2006, 03:44:19 pm »

Something that you may want to consider is peeing in there yourself. While this may not actually "remove" the pee odor, it will in fact "mark" the cabinet as "yours" and discourage other cats from coming near the cab in the future.

Q*Bert_OP · « **Reply #38 on:** August 04, 2006, 09:31:04 pm »

Because we hate cats so much: http://thetravisty.com/Games/swf/Kitten_Cannon.htm

WARNING: CONTAINS STRONG VIOLENCE...the way we like it

Todesengel · « **Reply #39 on:** August 23, 2006, 12:37:32 am »

Same thing happened to me, but I have my subwoofer mounted on the bottom of the cabinet, and the cat pissed on the sub and behind it right in the corner of the cabinet. Smells nasty!! I hope the cat got shocked!! I am gonna have to try some of these remedies.


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Author Topic: Cat litterbox MAME...eeeewwww!!! (Read 7642 times)

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