Banishing cat pee
Tim Downie
*think* they've ever p*ssed in my trainers, it just smell like it.
In the past I've thrown trainers in the washing machine (not a good idea I
know but the smell doesn't usually come on until I've put on 3-400 miles on
a shoe) but the smell still returns pretty quickly even then.
Are anyone elses shoes similarly afflicted and has anyone found any lasting
solutions (other than buying new shoes)?
Tim
Bob Watkinson
"Tim Downie" <timdow...@obvious.yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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to the friendly running shop and buy a lovely cushiony new pair. If only I
could afford it every month or so. ;-)
Peacelover
anymore because they'd kick me out, they stink so bad. It is as you say a
cat pee type stink, which I have not found a cure for but I have a few
theories:-
(By the way, I haven't got any cats to blame.)
Most stinks are caused by mould or bacteria, which multiply in warm damp
situations therefore :-
a) you have to get your trainers dry quickly after you've run in them (which
I don't do at the moment but I will when I get a new pair)
b) to get rid of the stink you need to get rid of what's causing it. I am
going to try washing them and then spraying my trainers with Dettox and see
if that works. If not I might have to try something more radical -
irradiation perhaps, anyone know where they dump the waste from Sellafield?
"Tim Downie" <timdow...@obvious.yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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Runningfox
I hardly ever have that problem nowadays but my trainers are hardly
ever allowed into the house. I leave them in an open porch to dry off
naturally. If they do start to smell I put them in the washing machine
on the lowest heat setting.
Failing that there's a product made by Grangers called 'Footwear
Odour Eliminator' for stinky boots and trainers. Don't know where
you'd buy it because mine came in a goody bag at some fell race or
other. Someone like Fishers in Keswick may have it.
Tim Downie
That's the trouble when you start running more than a few miles. Last year
I ran nearly 2000 miles. There's a big difference cost-wise between binning
at 300 miles and 500 miles. My present shoes aren't due for
retirement/demotion for another 100 miles hence my desire to kill the smell.
Tim
Bob Watkinson
more than £50 and try to buy old stock on line which you get discounted and
a pair gets retired at around 3 month (400m for me). I recon on average I
spend a little over 4 quid a week on shoes. Low cost is one of the beauty's
of our hobby.
Mary Ann
Oh man, I can tell exactly where my husbands trainers are iin the house
as soon as I come home. I could get rid of him (is that what you
meant?), but i do quite like him.
The worst thing was when I put them outside in a rage, they stayed out
all night, got wet and hubbie put them in the airing cupboard to dry!
Even he had to admit that the smell was something else. I suppose I
could leave him on the porch.
Mine smell like roses of course.
Mary Ann (still got a cold....sob).
Tim Downie
> The worst thing was when I put them outside in a rage, they stayed out
> all night, got wet and hubbie put them in the airing cupboard to dry!
> Even he had to admit that the smell was something else.
A couple of weekends ago when I did two off road races in one weekend, I
just wiped down my walshes to get the worst of Tinto off of them and popped
them in the airing cupboard so that they'd be dry for my Sunday race. The
next morning my wife was *convinced* that the cat had cr*pped in the
cupboard. ;-)
Tim
Rodders
My son bought a pair of designer Nike training shoes a couple of years back
which the see through gas cushion pocket in the heel. He put them in the
washing machine and after a couple of wears and after this they stank of the
cat pee. Took them back to the shop and was told that the smell was due to
the gas pocket bursting and this was the smell of the gas. They replaced
them and told him not to wash them in washing machine as this was recognised
as causing this.
Roddy
anders
Tim Downie wrote:
> Are anyone elses shoes similarly afflicted and has anyone found any lasting
> solutions (other than buying new shoes)?
This is one of my favourite subjects:-)
If you wash them, give them a 15min soak in 1 part vinegar (10%
solution of acetic acid) and 40 pats water. If you're lucky, that'll
kill the bacteria.
You can sprinkle plenty of baking soda on and into the shoes, work it
into the seams and let it stay, If the smell isn't gone after a repeat
or two, this trick hasn't worked.,
You can also try the same method with fine grind coffee; percolate,
drink, let dry and stuff into your shoes. They say two cups of coffee
per day can prevent hypertension.
As a last resort you can put the shoes into sealed plastic bags and put
them in deep freeze. If the bacteria turn out to be cold-resistant, put
the shoes back in and you will have something to serve when the in-laws
come in for dinner.
I've had some success with the first two methods and I've never had to
try the last two. In any case, prevention is the key here, too - but I
can understand your predicament.
BTW years ago I bought a pair of Adidas Ozweegos. There was a bit of a
smell when I tried them on in the running shop, but it didn't really
stick amidst all that rubber, plastic and leather and I assumed it
eminated from the cardboard box, which I threw in the rubbish bin as
soon as I got out. The following morning my entire flat seemed to reek
of something between cat piss and rotten fish: the shoes were "Made in
Vietnam" and I'm certain they had been shipped in a container with
cracked bottles of Nuoc Cham sauce!
Still, I loved the shoes - and the flat had a balcony:-)
Anders
steve common
>In any case, prevention is the key here, too - but I
>can understand your predicament.
Quite. No-one mentioned this but (NB "YOU" isn't you anders):
- don't wear the same socks twice without washing them. YOU might not think
they pong at all, but they do - and even if it's nothing anyone who really
loves you can't come to terms with, given enough compliments on their hair,
flowers, breakfasts in bed and shoe-shop gift vouchers, your socks are still
full of bacteria and/or spores waiting for a kick-start.
Once your very own primal soup gets soaked into the shoes, you're into a
vicious circle, only breakable by tipping a mixture of powdered salt and
vinegar crisps and dried marmite into your shoes (I think that's what anders
suggested).
Some trainers I've come nose to nose with would probably have smelled much
nicer if a cat *had* peed in 'em.
MrMoosehead
Isn't this one of those things where bicarb of soda will neutralise the
smell?
It's like thermal tops, once they begin to smell, you can't wear them
in polite company...
Tim Downie
> My son bought a pair of designer Nike training shoes a couple of
> years back which the see through gas cushion pocket in the heel. He
> put them in the washing machine and after a couple of wears and after
> this they stank of the cat pee. Took them back to the shop and was
> told that the smell was due to the gas pocket bursting and this was
> the smell of the gas. They replaced them and told him not to wash
> them in washing machine as this was recognised as causing this.
Hmm, interesting theory but I'm pretty sure I've had this problem with both
air and gel filled shoes.
Tim
Tim Downie
> Tim Downie wrote:
>
>> Are anyone elses shoes similarly afflicted and has anyone found any
>> lasting solutions (other than buying new shoes)?
>
>
> This is one of my favourite subjects:-)
So it would seem. ;-) Thanks for the tips, I might even try some of them.
I suspect the biggest problem is that I'm simply wearing the same shoes too
often at the moment. I usually rotate 2 or 3 pairs of shoes but I'm
currently down to a single pair of useable road shoes.
Tim
Tim Downie
> "anders" <hop....@suomi24.fi> wrote:
>
>> In any case, prevention is the key here, too - but I
>> can understand your predicament.
>
> Quite. No-one mentioned this but (NB "YOU" isn't you anders):
>
> - don't wear the same socks twice without washing them.
This sounds like dangerously obsessive behaviour. I mean, if they don't make
your eyes water and they don't 'crack' when you bend them, they've got to be
okay, right? ;-) I
> YOU might not
> think they pong at all, but they do - and even if it's nothing anyone
> who really loves you can't come to terms with, given enough
> compliments on their hair, flowers, breakfasts in bed and shoe-shop
> gift vouchers, your socks are still full of bacteria and/or spores
> waiting for a kick-start.
>
> Once your very own primal soup gets soaked into the shoes, you're
> into a vicious circle, only breakable by tipping a mixture of
> powdered salt and vinegar crisps and dried marmite into your shoes (I
> think that's what anders suggested).
>
> Some trainers I've come nose to nose with would probably have smelled
> much nicer if a cat *had* peed in 'em.
Oh well, at least mine clearly haven't got quite *that* bad yet. ;-)
Best of luck on Sunday.
Cheers.
Tim
steve common
>Best of luck on Sunday.
Thanks! It's snowing here btw and too late to ask anders for advice on waxes
for my skis :-P
Tim Downie
You'll just have to run faster to keep warm!
Tim
anders
Tim Downie wrote:
> So it would seem. ;-) Thanks for the tips, I might even try some of them.
If the baking soda or the wash-and-soak don't work, I'll admit defeat
for the organic brigade and give you my blessing to go out and buy a
product such as Febreze. It is probably potent enough to get rid off
the cats as well.
> I suspect the biggest problem is that I'm simply wearing the same shoes too
> often at the moment. I usually rotate 2 or 3 pairs of shoes but I'm
> currently down to a single pair of useable road shoes.
Until I remembered that you have almost completely moved to off-road
running this first got me worrying: "Does Tim have a gambling
problem?":-)
But, seriously, in that situation it is essential to actually remember
to remove the removable insoles (it makes a whole lot of difference to
how well the shoes will air and dry), to stuff the shoes with newspaper
when they've gotten the least bit wet and to adhere strictly to the
"clean in, dirty out"-principle in regard to socks (and feet).
Anders
Tim Downie
was new shoe time. Given that my smelly shoes are now demoted to beach
running only, I removed the insoles and threw everything into the washing
machine.
On removal, the insoles smell delightful. The shoes however *still* have
the lingering smell of cat pee. Given that the insoles are much more likely
to be soaked regularly in my sweat and foot flora (& maybe fauna), it's
curious that they've come out fresh but the rest of the shoes still smell.
I'm left thinking that it's actually nothing to do with sweat, bacteria,
personal hygeine etc, but to do with some kind of breakdown of the foamed
plastics that make up the sole. The occasional drying in the airing
cupboard may have accelerated the breakdown of the plastics.
Sound plausible?
Tim
na...@sketchgrowl.com
> I am currently having problems with my cat weeing in my house.It weed the
> other day by the door.The smell was terrible.It is a female cat called
> Nora.I was wondering how I could stop her from doing this in the future.Is
> there a type of spray or something?
>
> thank you
>
> Matthew Hough
I'm sorry for bumping this old thread, but I really feel like I have some advice to offer you - and you seemed to really need it at the time
One of my 2 cats (both neutered males) had taken to painting all of my walls, furniture, and anything else he could reach. I was horrified when I got a UV light. He never did that in all of the 9 years I've had him and didn't when I got him a buddy (they love each other and did so right away) but when a strange black cat started showing up outside both of my cats went nuts and the older one (9) started his wall painting, as well as the curtains out in the kitty room. I couldn't keep up with it.
My cats are indoor cats so it's not like the stray is actually going to get in here but they both hate him (and he is weird...my neighbor's cats hate him too). I've tried cleaning with a pet urine enzyme and then spraying some "No More Spraying" but that hasn't worked. He's a sneaky little bugger too; he waits until he thinks I'm not looking and then does it. He's learned that the minute I see him backing his butt up to something he gets yelled at.
It wasn't until I found "Cat Spraying No More" that I was able to finally get rid of this tiresome behavior.
Now my house doesn't smell like a litter box anymore :)
Here's a link the their site if you're interested in checking it out: http://NoMoreCatPee.com
I hope you guys don't mind me sharing this. Cheers!