Cat Piss.

dodgedude37 said

Here's a fact I heard awhile back for you cat lovers. If you die alone in your house with a dog , the dog will be dying before he/she will start eating you. With a cat it will be within a day. I always catch the cats & take them somewhere beyond a body of water, my house is between a river & creek.

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I've also heard that "fact" and have yet to see any proof of it. Just another old wives' tale to me. Same with the stupid "toxoplasmosis" disease that people think you can catch just from having cats in your house, "the infection will start eating your brain but you won't know it until it's too late!" Yes it's a real disease but you literally have to consume cat **** for it to happen. And I'd imagine you'd develop one HELL of a headache having your brain eaten by bacteria.

Cats live extremely stressful lives just based on their position in the food chain, they are carnivorous predators but also small enough to be prey for many larger animals; that's a big reason they act so 'weird' and can have really strange habits and behavior.

At first I got pissed (lol a pun!) about the talk about killing the cat but if it doesn't have tags you're probably doing it a favor. Just check your local laws first to make sure the owner can't come back at you with some legal BS, if they were able to figure out who did it in the first place. Around here (northern CO) if you let your cat outside and it doesn't have a collar with current tags the humane society will pick it up and have it euthanized pretty quickly if they don't get contacted about a lost cat; they don't screw around because cats are a menace to the local wildlife and can reproduce pretty fast.

As far as the cat piss smell, I have an (annoyingly) above-average sense of smell and never found a product that completely gets the stink out unless you can maybe soak the material. My cat pees on carpets if she's overly stressed and/or her litterbox is too full. Might be a good idea to contact your local vet for advice, not just for getting the smell out but dealing with the cat itself.