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We have four cats - two originals and two inherited from my mother-in-law when she became ill. At least one pees in our carpetted basement. On/in anything. I moved all my camera gear into a separate office, but not before I found a camera bag dripping with pee. Fortunately, it was an old, small, one that I don't care about.

We have four litter pans - two on the second floor bathroom and two in the basement bathroom. Maybe we should try one large one, but it would have to be in the basement.

Meanwhile, I've caught one of the two male cats peeing, so maybe we should try him on drugs.
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Thanks for the response.

What make of bag is it? It must be quite durable to stand up to a machine washing. Does the bag still look OK (like before it was washed)?

Bob
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But I doubled the amount of washing powder that I common use. The washer almost bubbled over, I had to watch it and turn off every time the foam started to creep out of the funnel. :-) I also added two extra liters of water through the funnel into the drum. Washed at 30 °C, the shortest program. Twice spinned to get more water out of if. Dried one day on the balcony.

I also rearranged the bag walls, found a better way to store my equipment.
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dopravopat said:
Anybody ever had a similar experience with his/her camera bag? Just curious?
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This happened with a dog, I had the dog put to sleep..

Just kidding. I would have liked to knocked it out though. For me it was on the outside of the bag and I just washed the bag but obviously not well enough because I visited my brothers house and his dog peed on it as well and had to wash it again, then used a pet spray with enzymes and deterent. Have not had a problem since but try not to put the bag on the floor. Have not had one pee on the inside though, but most of my lenses are weather sealed :)
 
We had a cat (a fantastic, sweet, wonderful cat) who would whiz in our basement on various things. Among those things was an old, but neat chair. When we found that he'd obviously been giving it the treatment, we decided to just throw it away, so we took it to the landfill.

Fast forward about a week. A friend of mine comes over who had just been to New York. He says: "Hey, you know that chair in your basement?" Yeah. "Well, I was in the NY Museum of Modern Art, and they're actually selling them there! Really? "Yep. $3600 each."

Nifty!

Anyhow, we ended up cleaning the whole basement and removing the one kitty box that was down there, and we found a few places where he'd been going. Once it was all cleaned up, we've actually just kept the cats from going down there. It's off limits. I suspect that there's still got to be some residue that they might smell which might trigger them to go. So we just don't let them in that area.

You might try the one huge box method. I'd heard that cats needed to have separate boxes, but what we found was that just having one enormous one has worked far better. And, we don't have multiple places with a cat box, and that's kind of nice.

But I do scoop it at least once a day, usually twice. (Clumping litter).

Oh, I just looked. They've still got the chairs:

http://www.momastore.org/museum/moma/ProductDisplay_Eames%20Lounge%20Chair%20and%20Ottoman_10451_10001_49296_-1_11461_11462_null__

My parents had bought it when I was a kid. I remember us spinning each other around on the foot rest part until we got dizzy :)

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nice tips ...
kimvette said:
dopravopat said:
First of all, do not worry, the cat is fine, I did not kill it.
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That answered what was going to be my first question. When I saw the subject I was wondering what you used to weigh the cat down when you tossed him into a lake. :)
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The camera and one lens was not in the bag, but everything else was. The hotshoe socket of the Sigma EF 530 DG Super and the Sigma 30 f1.4 got the biggest portion of urine. Especially the 30 f1.4, which was literally soaking in it, the reversed hood kept a nice "pool" around the focusing ring. Also an old brass tripod with telescopic legs, that fits just on the bottom of the bag was pretty wet. The Sigma 30 f1.4 was out of warranty anyway, so I disassembled it, cleaned all non critical parts in water and detergent and again in water.
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What you want is deionized water (NO detergent) or at least distilled if you cannot get dionozed. Remove all battery cells, completely disassemble the cases, discharge the caps and drench everything with deionized water. It won't hurt anything considering that deionized water is what is used to clean newly assembled circuit boards now.
kimvette said:
After careful drying and assembling the lens works just fine and does not stink anymore. Also it does not creep that noisy, I gently greased some moving parts I saw. Maybe I should have greased more. :-)
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What kind of grease did you use? For most items you probably want lithium grease.
kimvette said:
Yet the very little wobbling, which it had since I bought it second hand, remained. I also removed the hotshoe socket from my flash and did the same cleaning. I also cleaned all other lenses with detergent and water, even if they were not directly affected, but could use som general cleaning. The camera bag was washed. So in the end there is no damage at all, I finally cleaned my camera bag, filters, etc. But the stink was horrible!

Anybody ever had a similar experience with his/her camera bag? Just curious?
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No, but other devices. I disassembled everything, washed with distilled water (NO detergent) and let it dry completely. Have also cleaned clients' electronic gear in the same manner back when we did laptop repair. (lots of laptops with coffee, cat urine, soda pop over the years, you name it).

For future reference you might want to keep your camera bag zipped closed (assuming it's weatherproof).

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Hello Lights and Tony,

Very amusing posts!

In similar vein, I wonder which launderette the OP uses!

Thanks to everybody for an extremely informative read - I had no idea how cats actually behaved in the home - and for a few laughs!

Alistair
 
Now that the cat and your wife have become friends, you have to be scared they don't both pee on your things if they feel ignored. :D
 
We know that there are multiple spots in the basement - I've deliberately spread things around down there so that there are few stable flat spots for him to go, and that helps. Except when he went in a paint tray, all over the tools I'd left.

Our big concern is that if we kept him out of the basement, he'd just find a worse spot in the house.

But the most important thing was that I moved all my camera gear either into a closed office or into a closed cabinet in the basement. Except for the small bag he found last week.
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Hello Folks!

Has the animal kingdom "got it in for" 7d owners?

Out at the Churnet Valley Railway this afternoon and a bird cr*pped on my camera.

Incidentally if anyone is planning to tour England, North Stafforshire is a beautiful area. Do not let the travel firms fob you off with London and the Cotswolds (pretty but chocolate boxy).

Whatever next? Angry rhinos and crocs? I doubt a 7d would last any longer than a 60d.

Cheers, Alistair

PS Far more pigeons and starlings in Trafalgar Square than in Cheddleton!
 
It's kind of odd, but once we banished our basement wizzer from the basement, and had no places elsewhere that had any residual smell, he stopped doing it.

I don't know if it'd work with your guy, but it did with all of ours. Once we closed the door to the basement, re-did the floors in the rest of the house, and went to the single-box system, the whizzing stopped, from three different culprits!

It really seemed as though the problem all along was that they were smelling areas that had been previously blasted and it just triggered an instinct for them to go there, too.

That's why I think the single big box has helped. Having one clearly defined area seems to make it simple for them to realize that that's the only acceptable place to go.

And we've added a number of new cats over the years as two of the previous culprits have passed, and the new ones all seem to learn the system immediately.

Again, it's hard to say if it would work for all cats an all locations, etc., but it's bee great not dealing with cat pee for the last ten years or so.

If you want to see something funny, I've got a few photos I took when we camped out in a camper in our front driveway while we were re-doing the floors. Three people and five cats living in a camper for a week was amusing!

Here, El Guapo has slipped between the zip up window flap and the screen while Stinky and Lucy watch him:



Stinky, Muffin, and El-Guapo watch the door knowing Karen is about to come in:



Stinky, Muffin, El-Guapo, and Spud checking out the newly refinished floors in the dining room:



We've really loved the polyurethaned hardwood floors. Barf comes right off! :)

Anyone have a cat barf in their camera bag? I've had them puke on the bag, but I keep it zipped closed!!!!

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Try using grated cinnimon grated in boiling hot water. Takes the smell away for us and the cat. He shouldn´t return to the same place. I tried that with two lab puppies in an apartment and it worked great. When I moved to a house with an adequate yard, I mopped in hot cinnimon water and there was no odor left. Besides, cinnimon is cheap too.

I just got a cat but he hasn´t tried that yet. If he did I would let the labs teach him not to do it again. (Just kidding)
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The worst thing is when they barf in a shoe! I keep my shoes put away, but my partner occasionally forgets...
JimH said:
It's kind of odd, but once we banished our basement wizzer from the basement, and had no places elsewhere that had any residual smell, he stopped doing it.

I don't know if it'd work with your guy, but it did with all of ours. Once we closed the door to the basement, re-did the floors in the rest of the house, and went to the single-box system, the whizzing stopped, from three different culprits!

It really seemed as though the problem all along was that they were smelling areas that had been previously blasted and it just triggered an instinct for them to go there, too.

That's why I think the single big box has helped. Having one clearly defined area seems to make it simple for them to realize that that's the only acceptable place to go.

And we've added a number of new cats over the years as two of the previous culprits have passed, and the new ones all seem to learn the system immediately.

Again, it's hard to say if it would work for all cats an all locations, etc., but it's bee great not dealing with cat pee for the last ten years or so.

If you want to see something funny, I've got a few photos I took when we camped out in a camper in our front driveway while we were re-doing the floors. Three people and five cats living in a camper for a week was amusing!

Here, El Guapo has slipped between the zip up window flap and the screen while Stinky and Lucy watch him:



Stinky, Muffin, and El-Guapo watch the door knowing Karen is about to come in:



Stinky, Muffin, El-Guapo, and Spud checking out the newly refinished floors in the dining room:



We've really loved the polyurethaned hardwood floors. Barf comes right off! :)

Anyone have a cat barf in their camera bag? I've had them puke on the bag, but I keep it zipped closed!!!!

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Well, not my camera bag. I was photographing some freeride mountain biking at the North Shore (North Vancouver). One of my buddies has body armor that just reeked as he proudly professed it never gets washed. We were staying with my brother who has two cats... They must have peed on it all night. In the morning it was completely soaked. Guess what, he still wore it! Made him ride at the back of course lol.

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I tend to turn my shoes upside down when I leave them out in some areas ;-)

There's nothing like that nice, warm, squishy feeling when you put your foot into the shoe in the morning!

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Something similar happened to me and a friend. We both left our photobackpacks in his living room and his cat decided to pay a visit. The cat peed on his Nikon equipment but left my Canon gear untouched. What a great cat!
 
Never had that happen - no cats, just an 88lb Lab. Have to watch what he chooses as a chew toy :(. Amazing the cat survived. You are very compassionate. Glad it wasn't the camera - might have had a different ending. :)

When I was in the Vets the other day, I saw they had a special urine de-scenting spray that supposedly neutralizes the urine & smell - vs masking. They had two separate formulations, one for dogs and one for cats. Don't recall the name off-hand, but your Vet should know.
 
dopravopat said:
Well my cat us toilet-trained, it already can pee directly from the lid into the toilet. I do not know why it peed on my bag, the toilet was accessible as always.
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Sorry, but that has to be a joke right? Are you telling us that your cat uses a human toilet for a whizz? Pictures or it didn't happen (as they say) - please!
 
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