When an owner takes a cat into a house or apartment, he is not even aware of the upcoming problems. Everyone thinks that cats are just animals, affectionate, beautiful and loving. But no one thinks that during the molting season, and even outside the season, the cat “sheds” its fur: on clothes, carpets, and pieces of furniture. And then cat owners grumble that the cat is so and so, leaving its lint everywhere. To get rid of cat hair from the carpet or on clothes, you need to follow basic hygiene rules (for your pet), follow useful tips for cleaning up hair, and feed your pet properly. So, how to remove cat hair from a carpet? How to deal with the hated “insulation” of cat origin? Let's get a look!
Domestic cat
The situation when a domestic cat, everyone’s favorite, has fed kittens is quite common. The best option is timely sterilization of the cat. Unfortunately, not everyone can afford such a service, so we begin to rack our brains about what to do with its offspring. There are two options, and both of them are humane. The first is to make an agreement in advance at an animal shelter (and there are such in every city today), and then take the grown-up kittens there.
The second option is a little more troublesome, but very humane. After lambing, let the kittens grow up a little, photograph them to their advantage, and post the photo on social networks with the caption: “Fluffy pet is looking for caring owners.” This option works in 98% of cases. The remaining two percent then return to the first option.
There is another situation in which it is urgently necessary to get rid of a domestic cat (cat, kittens) - someone close to you has discovered an allergy to cat fur. This often happens when a baby is born and the cat has lived with you for quite a long time. There are a little more options here than in the first case. Firstly, you can give your pet to relatives, friends, and acquaintances. Secondly, social networks will come to the rescue again. Well, the third option is an animal shelter.
Getting rid of cat fur correctly: what do you need to know?
To get rid of cat hair from the carpet, you need to follow some rules:
- The best attachment for a vacuum cleaner is considered to be a turbo lint brush. In the process of cleaning, she wraps cat hair around herself, even the smallest one.
- To make it easier to remove cat hair from carpeting, you can sprinkle a thin layer of baking soda over it. This component softens cat hair, making cleaning much faster.
- Robotic vacuum cleaners, vacuum and washing models do a good job of cleaning wool lint in an apartment.
- After vacuuming is completed, you need to walk over the surface of the coating with a damp cloth or mop.
To get rid of cat hair on furniture in your home or apartment, you can follow these simple tips:
- A hard brush comes to the owner’s aid. It can be purchased in the hardware department of any store.
- A rubber brush will also come in handy. Since rubber has a static property, the lint is attracted to the material.
- To remove cat lint from furniture, you can purchase a special rubber roller.
- And still the same tires. Only in the form of gloves or a ball.
- And whoever doesn’t want to run around the shops looking for rubber products can use a simple remedy - ordinary tape. You need to cut a small piece of adhesive tape, stick it to the surface of the furniture and tear it off sharply. The lint will be attracted to the sticky side. By the way, one piece of tape can be used several times.
There are also several methods that can be recommended for cleaning clothes.
- How to get rid of cat hair on furniture in an apartment is already known. How to clean clothes? The simplest thing is to wet your hands with water and run wet hands over the items of clothing. The wool will roll into small balls or rolls, after which it should be thrown away.
- Purchasing a reusable roller will save you from lint for a long time.
- To effectively deal with hair without expensive commercial products, you can clean your clothes with tape. In the same way, a piece of tape is glued to the fabric and abruptly torn off. In addition to lint, specks and dust can be seen on the sticky side.
Yard, stray cats and male cats
The situation with pets is much easier to solve than getting rid of barn or stray cats, cats or kittens. Unfortunately, the population of such stray animals is constantly growing, and often we ourselves are to blame for this. Someone simply threw a domestic cat (cat) into the street. And someone, out of their kindness, constantly takes leftover food outside to feed these animals. As a result, it turns out that animals breed and multiply without any control, and we also feed them because we feel sorry for them!
But here, too, there are different options when you need to get rid of such animals.
First: A cat (cat or kittens) has chosen your entrance to the house. It’s a little easier to get rid of here. First, you need to completely remove all food sources from your entryway. Talk to your neighbors, explain the situation to them, and let each of them keep an eye on it. Secondly, it is necessary to remove cozy shelters for these animals. Cover nooks and crannies, remove soft cloths from under doors, treat all nooks and crannies with special repellents.
Many people often use bleach as such repellents. It’s enough to just occasionally wash the floors in the entrance with water with the addition of banal “Whiteness”. But the bad thing is that gradually the animals get used to this frightening and unpleasant smell for them and stop reacting to it. It is best to use a natural repellent, which is sold in pet stores or veterinary pharmacies. This repellent is created on the basis of dog pheromones, and for a cat (cat or kittens) it will be associated with their enemy - the dog.
These two techniques will help you quickly get rid of stray cats of any gender, and for a long time, if not forever!
Second: You have a private house with a yard where strange cats wander in. This option is much more difficult, you won’t fill the entire yard with dog repellent! This is especially troubling for those owners who have their own yard cat, and the neighbor’s cats constantly come to visit her. Simply getting rid of your cat is not a solution to the problem; shooting a rogue cat is also not an option. But you don’t want to then adopt the kittens that your cat will have!
How to get rid of cats in the yard
There are countless cats in city yards, but why? At one time, cats were not sterilized; they showed “humaneness.” The time has come, her nature called. Where are the kittens? Why didn’t the compassionate people take them away and throw them out into the street? And they shit around the yard, stealing from the first floors through balconies and windows. Children reach out to them, having never heard of worms and lichens.
There are ways to get cats out of yards too. There are plants that this family cannot stand. These include lavender, rue, mint. Plant the herbaceous ones in the yard flower bed, and grow rue shrubs around as a hedge. People find such smells pleasant, but cats do not.
You can also use store-bought products. Pet stores sell domestic products containing fox urine, and imported ones, where one of the ingredients is coyote urine. Cats cannot stand these smells and leave. You just need to remember that once applied, the product is effective until it wears off. Therefore, repeated treatment is desirable until the cats develop a reflex.
Method number one
You don’t have cats of your own, but other cats have taken a liking to your yard. Getting rid of them is quite simple. First, treat the “main penetration points” with the same repellent. Most often these are holes in the fence, the top of the same fence, an opening under a gate or gate. Of course, such treatment is quite expensive, but in this way you can get rid of an extraneous cat (cat or kittens) almost forever. There is an alternative and cheaper processing option.
If one of your friends has a dog, you can agree that the owner will take you for a walk with it a couple of times. Stock up on gloves, a scoop and a bucket, which you won’t mind throwing away later. During a morning or evening walk, the dog urinates from 3 to 7 times - you need to collect soil in a bucket with a shovel in the places where it urinated. Then scatter this earth in those very places of “penetration” - not a single cat will overcome such an obstacle!
What in general can keep cats away from the yard?
If you decide to start fighting against outside cats visiting your property, pay attention to such simple and effective methods as:
1. It is necessary to get rid of food sources in your yard, and most importantly, tightly close garbage containers, if any. Often, it is the accumulation of food waste, as well as food forgotten in the yard, that is the main magnet for other people's cats to visit your yard, prowling in search of food. If you have pets in your yard, you also need to hide their bowls after feeding them.
2. If possible, install moving lawn sprinklers in your yard. These devices have both automatic and manual watering modes, which allows you to activate the sprinklers when the cat first approaches your area and drive the insolent animal out of the yard for a long time. This method is very effective, but requires additional costs for installing an irrigation system and increased waste of water.
3. Plant special plants on your property whose smell repels cats. So, you can plant bushes of fragrant rue around your yard, since cats cannot stand its smell. In addition, you can collect fragrant rue in bunches and place them in the barn, along the fence, in the garden and at the doorstep. In addition to this plant, you can use citronella, lemongrass, eucalyptus and lavender. You can also purchase special scented oils with the scent of these plants, soak rags in them, and leave them in areas where cats appear.
4. Use a water gun as a repeller. As soon as you notice that a cat has appeared on your property, sneak up to it and spray it with a stream of water from a water pistol, which will shock the animal. For greater effectiveness, you can add vinegar, ammonia, acetone, or citrus and lavender flavoring to the water.
Method number two
You can get rid of animals coming into your yard using Pavlov’s method. Since school, we know that Pavlov founded a theory (absolutely correct) about the stability of reflexes. It is on this theory that our method of deliverance is based, and it works one hundred percent! You need to leave food in a certain place for several days, in sufficient quantities - this will teach the animals to come there constantly. Then, when all the incoming cats are there, throw a small firecracker into this place (or next to it). The sound of the explosion will frighten the animals so much that they will scatter in all directions. And for the next few days, periodically throw firecrackers there. Your yard, at the level of reflexes, will become a real “minefield” for them, where they will be afraid to enter!
It is especially difficult, of course, not even to get rid of, but not to tame kittens. These cute creatures are so hilarious, you feel so sorry for them that you constantly want to feed them, pet them, and play with them. But do not forget that the babies then grow up, begin to bear fruit and multiply, increasing the population of stray animals. The best thing to do when you find a homeless and cute kitten is to simply take it to an animal shelter!
Effective methods of repelling using improvised means
You can scare away other people's cats from your dacha using various available means, some of which are not always humane. If you want to get rid of cats using humane methods, pay attention to the following points:
- Mulch the soil of the beds and vegetable garden. To do this, we need citrus zest, leftover coffee grounds, or the cheapest cigarette tobacco. Take one of the above ingredients and mix it with the soil in areas where you do not want cats to be seen. Cats hate these smells, and regularly mulching them will not only help keep cats away, but will also fertilize your garden soil.
- Get a small dog in your yard that, even while on a leash, will scare away cats with its barking.
- If you have a domestic cat, we strongly recommend that you move her indoors, as her smell, especially during heat, will force cats to make their way into your yard, overcoming any obstacles.
- If you find a strange cat on your property, you can use firecrackers, firecrackers, and even a starter pistol that fires blank charges.
- Fence the fence with barbed wire, cover all cracks and tunnels with metal sheets, and if there are trees whose branches extend beyond the boundaries of your site, cut them off.
- If you have the means, you can purchase a cage trap. As soon as the cat enters this cage, the door will close and the animal will be at your disposal. The cage is the most effective of all humane methods, since it does not drive the cat away to an unknown location, but rather catches it.
Cats on your property
A cat is a cute and fluffy creature. If, of course, it is yours. Strange cats that regularly wander into the garden area cause a lot of trouble. Despite the benefits that cats bring, for example, they catch pests such as mice, they are considered to be the most dangerous creatures for the garden after rodents.
Cats are great at getting rid of pests, but they themselves also pose a danger to the garden.
Trouble in the garden
Among the troubles caused by cats in the garden are the following:
- Flowerbeds and beds are used by visiting cats as a toilet. Cat feces are not fertilizer at all; they can completely destroy your favorite flowers or vegetables. Cats are territorial animals, they instinctively mark their possessions with urine, and this will also not benefit the garden.
- Cats love to roll around in cool, lush greenery. And it doesn’t matter whether it’s carrot tops or a flower bed with gladioli.
It can be very difficult to drive a cheeky cat out of the area
- In addition, cats like to use the bark of fruit trees as a scratching post.
- Cats are excellent hunters of game birds. Summer residents who attract birds to their plots are unlikely to like this. Big cats wreak havoc in a chicken coop just as well as a fox.
Later, Ilya realized that “all the excitement was due to the fact that the cat was an adult.”
A 23-year-old young man works as an ornithologist trainer at the petting zoo in the Babylon shopping center and raises birds. When asked what they do with the birds if they are tired or sick, he answers: “Consult a veterinarian or euthanize them.”
- Why didn’t they put the cat to sleep?
- We do not have money.
There is terrible bedlam in Ilya's apartment. Reconstruction swords hang on the wall. On the chandelier is a symbol of Japanese hope - white paper boats. There is dirt, car tires and scattered shoes everywhere.
“I recently had a general cleaning – I haven’t finished it yet,” he explained. He gave the wrong name and location of his partner; the police had to go to several addresses to find the girl.
The flayer’s 21-year-old friend and former owner of the cat was no less surprised by the police visit than her counterpart and was constantly smiling.
Without ceasing to smile, Victoria told and showed how the kitten was killed. Music is playing at home, there are former cat bowls with already worn-out food in the corner, and a toy - a fur fluff - is lying nearby.
— I took the kitten because I was bored. To brighten up my loneliness. A month later, he began to behave horribly, destroying everything, yelling at the entire dorm. It has no benefit at all, just like rats.
Well, I decided to kill him this way - the more humane method that came to mind - drown him. I filmed it on camera.
- For what?
- He asked (nods at Ilya). This did not raise any special questions for me. I just took it and started filming. I was silent, and he commented on how correct it was. We waited for a minute. Then he died and we threw him in the trash.
Victoria said that she did not try to give the kitten to anyone. One day she took kittens from the basement, but no one needed them and had to be thrown back. I didn’t contact animal protection groups either - “they already don’t have enough money for food.”
She took the prince from a friend, but she won’t tell him what she did with him.
