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I want to start by saying that no one in this household has never, and never will smoke around our cats.
The problem is that we have an elderly relative that lives with us and isn’t very open to listening to every concern we have, whether about the cats or not. He thankfully has stopped smoking (and only smoked outside anyway, but rolled cigarettes in his room) and has kept this up for the past few months, but our whole house is carpet and he’s not the cleanest of roommates so there are still remnants of tobacco and cigarette smell in his room.
I was cuddling and sniffing my cats earlier today (yknow, as you do) and caught a big whiff of stale cigarette smoke on one of them. The only way they could smell like that is from being in the relatives room. She was actively cleaning herself in the area that smelled too, so I immediately got the brush out and started to brush her, but sadly the smell hasn’t gone.
We've never bathed this particular cat before as she hadn’t needed it and is way more skittish and feisty than the other one when she’s upset. So, unless I absolutely can’t help it, I’m looking for another way to get the smell safely out of her fur and ideally one I can do regularly as I reckon it won’t be the last time she’ll get this smell on her fur. I’m just really worried she’ll eventually get sick from cleaning spots that smell like cigarettes or maybe even has pieces of tobacco in it.
Would getting a warm wet cloth with some dawn dish soap or cat shampoo on it help enough to just spot clean?
The problem is that we have an elderly relative that lives with us and isn’t very open to listening to every concern we have, whether about the cats or not. He thankfully has stopped smoking (and only smoked outside anyway, but rolled cigarettes in his room) and has kept this up for the past few months, but our whole house is carpet and he’s not the cleanest of roommates so there are still remnants of tobacco and cigarette smell in his room.
I was cuddling and sniffing my cats earlier today (yknow, as you do) and caught a big whiff of stale cigarette smoke on one of them. The only way they could smell like that is from being in the relatives room. She was actively cleaning herself in the area that smelled too, so I immediately got the brush out and started to brush her, but sadly the smell hasn’t gone.
We've never bathed this particular cat before as she hadn’t needed it and is way more skittish and feisty than the other one when she’s upset. So, unless I absolutely can’t help it, I’m looking for another way to get the smell safely out of her fur and ideally one I can do regularly as I reckon it won’t be the last time she’ll get this smell on her fur. I’m just really worried she’ll eventually get sick from cleaning spots that smell like cigarettes or maybe even has pieces of tobacco in it.
Would getting a warm wet cloth with some dawn dish soap or cat shampoo on it help enough to just spot clean?