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Friendly reminder that using bleach to clean cat pee can fucking kill you and your cat
I mean, I'd be kind of surprised if it did kill you, but ammonia and bleach mix to make an extremely toxic gas
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Looking at this article, there’s only millimolar concentration of ammonia in feline urine (mean 118mM, range 16.9-292 mM). I’d be very surprised if anyone was able to generate significant quantities of chloramine gas by mixing bleach with cat urine.
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Thanks for sharing this data - it's great.
It actually makes sense; if cat urine contained ammonia the smell would be gone once you washed your cat's impromptu litterbox, since ammonia is both volatile and highly soluble. And yet it keeps stinking - this hints that there's something else there producing that ammonia by decomposition. (Probably proteins. Cats eat a lot more protein than we do.)
Note: chlorine gas is the one that leaks from an open bleach bottle, and gives it a distinctive smell. The ones created by reacting bleach with ammonia are chloramines, considerably more poisonous.
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Isn't chemistry all a matter of scale though? I admit it's not my field
I mean, if the cat pees on the rug and you clean it up right away, that's probably not a big deal. I imagine it's a different story if you're cleaning out a hoarder's cat colony in a poorly ventilated area and don't dilute the bleach because you wanted something stronger
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So you're saying there's a chance.
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I don't think there is enough ammonia in human urine to create chloramine, considering bleach is widely used for cleaning toilets and bathrooms. Let alone cat urine.
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Is it good on hotdogs and pretzels?
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I hear that the hot new trend is subway surfing
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The issue is not ammonia (at least not when it comes to urine) but rather urea, which also reacts with hypochlorite to create chloramines.
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What just happened here? o.0
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^Will also eliminate cat.^
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I'd hope so
What's more likely is that it will be in extreme pain
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2000 Facebook comments saying "so sad!!!"
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How many failed captcha
Yes that's a trick question
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Bleagh
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AI is finally becoming self aware
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And it realizes the only creatures who can stop it are the cats.
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Your cat isn't supposed to melt on contact with bleach, Sir. I think she is very sick.
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Well.....to be fair......he's pouring bleach in her eyes. I can understand how the cats eyes are watering.
What I don't understand is how the cat hasn't murdered him yet. Nobody should be surprised if a cat murders someone pouring bleach in their eyes.
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I feel like you're forgetting that cats are liquid?
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They’re injecting bleach in the cats, they’re injecting bleach in the dogs
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there is no evidence that BLEAGH is poisonous, in fact there is no evidence that BLEAGH exists at all, projects like S.E.T.B. (search for extraterrestrial BLEAGH) or BLEAGH foot hunters have spent years searching for BLEAGH but there is rarely any evidence besides tufts of beat hair or random spy satellites.
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I see the error here: this method will stop new cat pee odors from occurring, however, it is ineffective at removing existing ones.
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Stopping a cat from having pee accidents by pouring bleach in their eyes? That pisses me off. I hate it when people treat pets like actual children.
