We have cats. Every morning we clean out the cat box so the house smells nice. Wife walks of over to the dumpster. Well today, one of our cats came in and pooped after I cleaned the box.
So I got a zip lock baggie and put the poop in it. Then I put that baggie in another baggie and set it by the back door.
I was running late for work so I decided to drive it it over to the dumpster on my way. However, I forgot to drop it off and it sat in my car seat all day.
It’s been a week and my car still stinks. Two questions, 1. How do I get rid of the odor and 2. How did the offending stench make it through 2 baggies!?
Really good enzyme (enzymatic?) cleaner/deodorizer called Nature’s Miracle (Just For Cats), available online and at pet shops. I use it a couple of times a year in our litter pans, but it works on carpets, upholstery, etc.
And plastics, against all intuition, are porous. It’s why freezer bags are much thicker than regular zips.
One of those corpse cleanup services probably has good advice about what to use for such smells. Or perhaps @Jackmannii will pop in and let us know what he recommends to deodorize the autopsy room.
Bleach generally works wonders, but I suppose usage in a car could be problematic.
I have an odor problem of my own to deal with. We recently started Pluto the spaniel on a hypoallergenic fish-based diet. This evening he has been passing salmon gas in the family room and it may take more than air freshener and an N95 mask to survive.
I have three cats and live in a smallish apartment, so you’ll probably believe me when I say that I’ve had opportunities to deal with stench and miasma. I’m a big fan of Oxiclean products, though it depends on what your upholstery is as to whether and how you can use it.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the active ingredient in several of the suggested products - OdoBan, Nature’s Miracle, Oxiclean - is the same thing, so it might pay to read labels and compare prices.
Or if you have a Wal-Mart near you, there’s a chance that they carry (mine did anyway) a similar product called “Kids and Pets” which is the same basic sort of thing- it’s an enzymatic cleaner that gets out poop, urine, barf, etc…
Works for everything my kids have emitted thus far…
“Put your mind and your nose at ease with Smelleze Natural Dead Animal Odor Removal Granules. This outdoor deodorizer is designed to absorb and eliminate strong, offensive odors caused by animal remains.”
And this:
That one is touted as a poop stink remover.
I wish I’d known about these products when my Dodge Colt got flooded in the Commonwealth Stadium parking lot after a summer downpour, and ever after stank like the Okefenokee Swamp.
I’d be careful with anything labeled as an “oxidizing” remover- chances are that at best, it’s something like Oxiclean, and more likely something like bleach.
The enyzmatic products work rather well in my experience- the only thing is that some are straight up enzyme cleaners and others are basically bacterial cultures that you spray on.
The main difference is that the bacterial cultures take a little longer, as the bacteria have to multiply and eat the stinky stuff, as opposed to the enzymes in the cleaner merely breaking it down.
