Wifey has some 'new' friends via boy child, lovely people and their son is a very nice well mannered young lad too, so they invited us round for dinner,which was very nice of them, now I knew they had a cat through some conversations that we'd had.

So get round there, nice house, wander into the kitchen diner exchange pleasantries, get a drink on the go and it gradually starts to hit me, thinking what's that smell as the smell memory comes back along with the cat in the window it hits me, oh yeah they've got a cat, ok no worries, I wouldn't have a cat but I don't hate them (much ).

So nice evening and we have a wander up the lovely garden and sit down in the sun, now this couple are really nice people but ferk me turns out they have 3 cats 2 males and one ageing female and they're baby sitting one for some cat sitting network told you they were nice.

During the garden sitting newest cat (4months old) takes a liking to me and I put up with being jumped on a couple of times, fair enough I don't actually dis-like cats enough to let it really bother me, although i don't really trust them as they can be nasty little ******* when they decide to be.

Anyhow, dinners ready (finally) so off we go back into the house and sit around the table, fahook me does it stink, it's like one of the cats has been marking the chair I'm sat on, which I noticed as I sat down has a fair amount of cat hair on, I tried to avoid sitting there and pulled the chair next to it out and it was the same deal there, looked at the other chairs (as you do) and seems they've all been cat perches, so I have to sit there exchanging pleasantries, eating dinner with the smell of cat p!55 permeating every mouthful .

Managed to finish dinner without puking, probably thanks to the near lethal quantity of garlic in the potatoes au gratin / oh garlic and retired to the sitting room only to wind up inadvertently sitting in king cats spot ain't karma a b1tch .

Ordeal over get home take my trainers off and seriously have to throw my socks in the bin they smell that bad (as they do the no shoes in the house, which is fair enough as we do too, but I'm not sure why they do it) and I think the trainers are not far behind them.

As some of you know I'm a dog person and yes my Jack Russell does come in the house when we are home and yes she can get a whiff on, but we can smell it and she has a bath at least once a week and more if she goes rolling in something.

I thought cats were supposed to be clean, they may look clean but bloody norah they stink to high heaven, to me as a none cat owner.

Phew!

 

The degree of stink emanating from a cat or dog owner will depend primarily on how often the owner bathes or showers, and changes their underwear. Also, on whether they are familiar with household cleaning products. As for the animals themselves, most dogs smell of digestive biscuits whereas cat fur tends to smell of fresh air. However, cat breath is pretty disgusting! I say this as an owner of both dogs and cats

 

Surely if cat breath is nasty and they lick themselves clean then their fur is not exactly going to smell of 'fresh air'.

Not too sure about the digestive biscuits unless that's what you feed yours there are few smells worse than wet dog, which when you think about it is quite strange as all dogs smell exactly the same when wet, how does that work.

 

Strange one. I have a cat, but its female and neutered.
It doesn't run about spraying, having said that, it also doesn't get out.
However, when it unloads in its sh1tter tray its a totally different story, and you need to be somewhere else.

Its breath reeks, but it also farts, and these are the worst, because the b@stard doesn't make a noise, you just get hit by this foul smell

 

Silent and deadly, my mum is good at those .

Can't say i'm over joyed by anything that comes out of the rear end of any animal, never got on with the thought of cat poo in the house, don't much like picking up dog poo either so always train mine to back into the bushes, which is a bit of a pain on the street as she tends to poo on a wall as opposed to beside it.

As for the smelly owners, I think they do need to drag a wet mop around the place and maybe have one spot each for their respective cats, our dog has her own bed and we have wooden floors throughout as well as leather sofa's.

 

There's no such thing as a bad cat - whoops, sorry that's dogs isn't it


Healthy cats are clean and don't smell much. **** in house would be down to incontinent old female cat unless you had Korean Cat Stew for din-dins


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Do cats actually let you wash them, like a dog would ?

Nothing worse than cat pee, certainly after its got into soft furnishings

 

I think dog people generally smell too

The shaggier the animal the worse it is usually

 

As the advert calls it : They've gone nose blind!

Now my sense of smell is best described like a switch (or a narrow band oxygen sensor, if anyone understands how they work ) it's either on or off; i.e Smell or no smell; so I don't smell a faint smell, but more pungent smells are amplified ten-fold (I once told a ex-GF to wash off her purfume becuase she was making me gag; that down went well ).

What I do have that takes it place is allergies; breathing etc. This guarantees to pick up on minor "issues" in a person's home. And if bad has me a wheezing and sniffling mess unless I'm drugged up on loratadine that makes me spaced out (pill-in-Ibiza style ) and useless for any conversation.

But when it comes to dog and cat people and their cars...oh dear. I honestly cannot believe how some people can incarcerate themselves in such a foul stinking closed space and not notice there is a problem.

Alot of pets; cats and dogs territorially mark areas. Bear in mind dogs have scent glands in their paws. Cats leave their scent by rubbing against stuff with their body (so its not just urine). It transfers, and goes everywhere. With cats its pretty much inescapeable bar their diet and banning them from the sofa/bed etc, dogs on the otherhand can be managed easier but as with cats alot of their owners seem "blind" to the problem.....then they wonder why their children have asthma and blame it on the air outside, when it actually the allergen-ridden air in their own filthy home!!

Rolly gets a bath fairly regular, his paws are washed after every walk. And he's generally happy sleeping on the floor and not the sofa/people/bed. All are big nonos when it comes to pet odour tranfering to soft furnishings. I don't seem to have any issues..be it smell or allergy.

 

Well, my sister has a cat and she washes it, and it gets dried with a hair-drier

 

Depends on the cat aswell, some malt badly, as for smell i'm not sure why some houses smell worse then others, one big thing is if you have a cat tray or not, plus if the cat cleans itself some don't, others have bad breath due to rotting teeth.

Depends how well the cats are looked after if have go vets etc.

 

My brother has 3 cats and his house constantly smells like a litter tray.
Not nice at all, guessing he's nose blind to it now.

Can't say I'm round there that often. Defiantly couldn't sit down for a meal in those conditions.

 

These cats were all over everything, also carpet in living room and 2 sofa's made from cloth so I guess that won't help.

Having had a bit of a think, the new cat has only been in the house a couple of weeks and then there's the cat sitting one, would that make the 2 resident / original cats try and stamp their scent on the house a little more than usual?

 

you sound like a "lovely friend" LOL

 

any household that has pets will smell, just as every household with no pets smells,
trust me when I was doing electrical tests on houses they all stunk,
feet, BO, animals, bad breath, smokers the list goes on, every house has it`s own smell,
if you cant smell your own then you are just nose blind to it, simples.

 

Neutered/spayed and healthy/looked after cats don't smell. If you find smells in their keepers' houses, it's the cat food or cat poo/p1ss's smell; coming from their food tray or their litter tray. Keepers must have become desensitised to such smells, but you, as a visitor, can smell them. Such keepers should put more effort into cleanliness and hygiene.

Dogs, on the other hand, do smell. They don't use litter tray anyway, and you can't blame dog food for their B.O. either.

If you travel with a dog in your car, you'd know that your dog has a distinct B.O.; often a mixture of the raw flesh, poo and urine smells. That's without it pooing and peeing in your car. You travel with a cat in your car, you'll smell nothing at all unless it pees or poos in its carrier box.

If your dog doesn't smell bad, it must be you who does. Just a thought.

 

We had three cats and three dogs, so the house was a bit ripe at times. All the cats are dead now, so at least upstairs is animal odour free (cats stayed upstairs out of the dogs way), although two teenage boys don't smell much better.

We did not want cats, a kitten turned up in our back garden one night and despite our best efforts nobody claimed her (tortoise shell so may have been ferel). Wife being a soft touch decided we would take her in. Booked in to be spayed, vet couldn't do it as she was already carrying kittens. First kitten she gave birth to got stuck as its water sack had burst. Phone vets, they want about £500 to come out as its early on a Sunday morning. Vet nurse suggests fairy liquid and pull the kitten out, which I duelly do. Think I probably broke that kittens neck, which was no bad thing as when I finally manage to extricate it from the mother its bottom half looked like a water bomb.

Four kittens later, house stank after a while. Kept two, gave two away. The two male cats we kept used to **** all over the place, even used to get on the kitchen worktop and **** in plug sockets, tripping all the fuses.

The mother cat was ok, she would sit on the arm of the sofa and pat my lad on top of his head when he walked past her. She even learnt to go upstairs and perch on the toilet seat and p!ss in it, which was handy, although she never got round to flushing and always left the toilet seat up.

She cottoned on to the fact that if she sat under the hedge opposite our back garden people would come and feed her, so she would stay there being fed and come home for dinner too, despite us putting a sign up saying not to feed her. She was greedy, and ate a 22lb turkey one Christmas when the wife and I had flu and were dying in bed. Stripped it to the bone, then shat it all back out over the kitchen floor. She went missing from her hedge, never to return.

The two male cats both got run over, just after we moved, within the space of three months. The first one (a black cat called marmite) suffered collapsed lung and internal injuries. Ended up costing nearly £2k in vet bills. Died about a year after from some sort of feline heart disease.

Month after he was run over, I end up in hospital with collapsed lung, have keyhole surgery, nearly get septisemia, come out after a month, other cat (ginger cat called marmalade) gets run over. One front leg and £800 lighter, he lasted a couple more years than his brother.

Marmite was a very good natured cat, was more like a dog really. He would try and join us on dog walks and would let any child maul it to death, and he wouldn't bat an eyelid, and would never consider scratching anyone however he was handled.
Marmalade was a bit different, would get on the bed wanting to be stroked and would lash out and sink his claws into you for no apparent reason, until his accident then he never did it again.

Nice cats, but would never have any again, p!ss everywhere and fvcking stink!

 

Cats only p1ss everywhere if you don't litter train them from young age. I have two cats. Yes, they drop their hair all over. It is a right PITA and I have to be proactive with my Dyson Animal for that. Yes, they scratch our attic room leading stair case, trees and the garden fence but nothing else. I don't mind them scratching what they scratch. Yes, they are sick inside the house sometimes, which I remove and thoroughly wash the area with a germ killing agent. I don't mind doing that. But they NEVER pee or poo anywhere else apart from their litter tray, our toilets and outside.

Cats will pee and poo all over in your house if you're relaxed with them doing so. Otherwise, litter train them.

 

Ours were litter trained, if you have more than one male cat they will more likely than not scent mark and p!ss everywhere in competition with one another. Cats are territorial.

 

I know that cats are territorial. My old female cat still remains territorially scarred by our act of taking the younger male in; even after 9 long years. I hear what you say about your two macho male cats breaking the rule and p1ssing/spraying all over; in competition with each other.

 

A minority of them might (chiefly among the more pampered indoor-only variety, I would imagine), but most would sooner see to it that you bleed to death from a thousand deep scratches or bites than let you put them anywhere near a bath-tub

As TH points out though, it's completely unnecessary for any healthy, well-trained and neutered cat.

 

Thing is they knew they shouldn't do it. They would do it out of sight, but if I were to walk into a room and they were scent marking or p!ssing they would then leg it out the nearest window, as they knew I would have chased them out the house anyway.

I think they used to do it to wind us up half the time. One morning my wife said at least we don't have to put up with dead birds left in the house now that the cat only had three legs and can't catch them. It was as if he completely understood what she said, and thought fvck you, I'll show you, as that very afternoon I came home and found a bloody great big pigeon amongst a pile of feathers in my sons bedroom.

 

This is Basil - he used to get a bath once a fortnight, he didn't mind it, no biting, no scratching, no effort made to jump out of the sink - I'd stop short of saying he enjoyed it, but the house belongs to the humans and the humans make the rules.

 

Are you sure she said cat and not *****?

 

I ought to get some new glasses. I originally read the title of this topic as 'Do all fat people stink?'

I must point out to Tarmac Terror that humans are merely members of the cat's staff and in no way 'own' the cat (or its house!)

 

Seems I've started something

I have students and a 9yr old son that smell worse than the dog but the only place we have carpet is on the stairs, there's a few rugs dotted about the place but they are kept dog free and the rest of the house gets mopped twice a week as an average, or it does when I'm here, so smells around here are kept to a minimum, dog is also out in the back garden during the daytime as I don't think it's good to keep them in the house alone also has the benefit of keeping the local cats out of the garden.

Seems to me that the problem they have is the 2 male cats in competition with one an other, and they have obviously gone smell blind.

Oh and by some of the things you lot are saying sounds like dogs are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay nicer to own, puke, p155 and poo all over the house doesn't sound like they're as clean as some would have us dog owners believe, my dogs do ALL their business outside.

 

Lol, do that with our dog.

 

Not really my friends but they are lovely people, they have had cats for a really long time, like around 12yrs in this house and a little before in their previous house, I've not had a cat for about 40yrs, had quite a few when I was a kid but always preferred dogs as they have a use.

I guess it's true what they say about cat people being lazy and selfish.

 

Sounds like a nightmare, no wonder you don't want anymore, nice to know I'm not the only one that's had cats that just randomly attack people for no apparent reason.

 

Classical read, really had me laughing quite loudly!

Love cats, but they are odd creatures.

Sometimes they can mark their territory, by spraying their urine, especially if there is more than one cat in the household and also especially if the cat has not been spayed (female) or neutered (male), and the fact that they are babysitting one from the sitting network, the permanent resident cats will mark territory even more!