Cat pee and your gun bag...

[Dr. Dickie]

All of our cats (4 right now) are rescues. Clyde (a grey spotted tabby) came to us a very little bitty fella. He was "inside only" for the first few months of his life as he was only a month or so old when we found him and he was in bad shape.
All of the sudden, at about two months old, he started going to the bathroom in our clothes hamper !!
He did it once, and we thought maybe he got confused as the they are both in a box, and the when he was so sick the cat box was in our bedroom near the hamper, so okay.
Then he did it again, and again. We finally had to put a piece of plexyglass over the hamper during the day to keep him from doing that.
I was scratching my head, trying to figure out why he was doing this. Then, when changing his litterbox material, it dawned on me. I was using a different litterbox material. We had some cheap stuff in the garage and after we ran out of TidyCats, I wanted to use up the cheap stuff, and that was exactly when he started to use our hamper.
I switched back to TidyCats, and BINGO. He started using the litterbox again, no problem.
The little bugger was just letting us know he did not like the feel of the cheap litterbox material.
Lesson learned.
When I was a kid, I had a friend who's cats would pee on the burners on the stove when his mother made them mad, they also would pee in her purse sometimes when she got them angry at her.
Gotta give them credit, they get their way

 

[stevekl]

I once had a purple gun bag and the cat crapped on it.

Then I went to the gun show and bought a black, bigger gun bag, and the cat crapped on that, too.

I bought a camouflage gun bag and I keep my door closed now. Which I don't like to do, because the OTHER cat is a sweetie and she is welcome to hang out in my room, but I can't leave the door open for her without letting the Poop Bomber in.

 

[mpmarty]

If it's the wifes cat give her the bag as a new purse and get a new one.

 

[HeedJSU]

"sniff"....."ahhhh. no cat smell"

I threw a cat in the microwave once. (I was 4)

It walked in circles for the rest of its short life.

Justin

 

[Emptymag]

Wow. the cat pee thing is getting a lot of attention!

I'll add that no matter what product you buy, the underlying odor will likely never go away. Buying a new bag is cheaper than the gallons of "Stink-B-Gone" the pet store will recommend. Ask me how I know...

When taking our cat to the vet in his carrier, he peed in the carrier. It was on the passenger seat of my Dakota and just a few drops leaked out and got into the seat. You could barely feel the damp spot, but the SMELL was unmistakable!

I tried every product that was suggested and even got a syringe to inject the stuff deep into the seat. I got it to where it wasn't "oh my God!" obvious, but if you took a deep breath, you could still catch a whiff of it. Then summer came along... GOOD GOD! The heat made it 100x worse. I was about to have the dealer order a new seat(it was that bad), but the POS Dodge started giving me more trouble and we sold it. Problem solved.

The cat now goes in the carrier, which is placed in a huge plastic storage bin (no lid) which is placed in the bed of the truck(w/cap). No way in Hell that guy rides up front anymore.

 

[Brian Williams]

My cat keeps peeing on the floor just under my reloading bench. A little ginger spread keeps it away for a few months.

 

[cmidkiff]

Hard to tell from that photo, but she's about 20" tall, and outweighs my wife's cat by a considerable amount. She can crack coconuts with that beak. Nothing funnier than watching my bird chase the cat around the living room

 

[pete f]

I had a cat pee in a gun case, washed it all out, got it nice and clean and she did it again. this time with a .22 sitting in the gun bags as I was g etting ready to go, luckily I found it while it was still wet and not before it had started to rot the metal, which cat pee will do in no time. I washed the gun bag out again, then again, and then put five little mouse traps in it, all set, but under a carefully laid towel. Cat hopped in, screamed like it was in the talons of a hawk and jumped all the way to the top of the bookcase next to it, then out the door in a flash, I reset the traps, and then set some more under a towel in the doorway to the room where all the gun stuff was. About 1 am, another screech and the cat is in our room just shaking, SHe will not go in that room again, if you try to carry her in she goes ballistic. that was four years ago.

 

[gunsmith]

some cats are great guard cats

this cat treed a black bear!

 

[Auslander]

For a good cheap replacement...

Well maybe not that cheap but a good bag. Try the big box hardware store's selection of 'tool' bags. They have several roomy varieties and reasonable price and stout construction.

Keep the old bag. Pee on it your-own-self and leave it in the cat’s favorite perching/sleeping spot.

 

[Dixie_Amazon]

Just let it do itself in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afxcerHayxg

 

[Fish Miner]

I can not belive how many people have posted to this thread. Even my wife thinks it is a little funny. All this support has made me a little less mad at the cat, but I do think I might try the mouse trap idea

 

[W Turner]

My wife and have had at least one cat since we got married. The worst thing I have ever had a cat pee on was.......ME.

We were living in our first real house as a married couple and my wife came in one day with a beautiful coal black 6 mo. old cat she had adopted. No problem for me as I like cats ok. Fast forward a few months and that 6 month cat is rapidly developing into a monster cat.
One sunny afternoon, I was sitting on the couch reading the paper when the cat was standing at the front door yowling to be let out. I didn't feel like getting up right then so I figured I would wait until I finished the section of the paper I was reading.

He didn't like that.

I continued to ignore him so he jumps on the couch. I noticed this but didn't really think much of it.

A few minutes later I feel a warm spray hit the side of my face. Just as I am starting to wonder what just hit me, I smell the unmistakeable odor of cat pee.

I look up to see him looking back over his shoulder with a gleam in his eye that just screamed "whatcha gonna do about it nancyboy?"

We all got what we wanted....

The cat got let/kicked/punted outside.

I got some stress out via the aforementioned cat football.

My wife got a good laugh out of the whole thing.

W