Safety : Clean Green for a Cat-Safe Home
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Clean Green for a Cat-Safe Home How to Keep a Clean House Without Sacrificing Your Cat's Health By Franny Syufy, About.com We all agree that a clean house is not only desirable, but essential to the health of both humans and the cats who share our homes. Ironically though, our homes are full of household cleaning supplies which can be harmful to our cats, things like chemical cleaners, disinfectants, and insect repellants. In an effort to protect our cats from exposure to toxic substances, while keeping our homes free from dirt and germs, the About Cats Forum members have brainstormed and came up with a list of helpful "clean green" tips and ideas. We have discovered that there are a number of safe products we already have on hand that can be diverted toward safe cleaning.Vinegar Vinegar has a multitude of uses both inside and outside the home. Here are just a few:
It seems to be a toss-up between baking soda and vinegar as the most valuable common household product with a multitude of uses. You will see that they are often used together for double-whammy cleaning green.
Household bleach, diluted with warm water in a 1:20 ration is a splendid disinfectant. It is often used in shelters and vet clinics, and can be used at home to clean almost every washable surface, including countertops, floors, as well as litter boxes and plastic automatic water servers and food dishes. Rinse the latter two well with water, and let other surfaces dry before cats walk on them. Lemons Lemons add a fresh, clean scent wherever they are used. Here are just a few ideas for using lemons in a less traditional way than lemonade:
Bleach Revisited
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Re: Safety : Clean Green for a Cat-Safe Home
oh boy looks like i should invest in a giant tub of vinegar.. thanks for the tips!! always wondered if i might be harming my pets with all my cleaning and disinfectants.
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Re: Safety : Clean Green for a Cat-Safe Home
do you know that this will tie in with our thread on how we should be consistent in our stand against cruelty to animals and avoid buying from companies that do not ban testing product testing on animals - it was in one of thread on vegetarian or something.
i have read somewhere else that vinegar is good to kill weeds, i'm thinking of buying the white vinegar (cuka tiruan) as it is much cheaper! :-) the black vinegar which we use as food is way too much "expensive" and "precioius" to be used to kill weeds and for cleaning the toilet! {shy} however if we use bleach, we must make sure that the cats are not harmed by being allwoed to ingest any leftover of the cleanup, etc. let's discuss more on this here- hopefully lots of people will participate {shy} Quote:
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actually your timing on posting this article is absolutely perfect!! i have a massive weed problem in my yard. it looks like a jungle and i'm not exaggerating. i've got lalang growing that's almost as tall as i am. it seems like the weeds grow so fast and we can't get them cut fast enough! some of the strange weeds are even beginning to grow into full-fledged trees. now don't get me wrong, i love nature and plants and i am always buying all kinds of plants, but weeds are totally different. they choke the grass and make it difficult for my dogs to play in the garden. last night spike and i were hanging out outside when he saw a cicak on the garden wall opposite. naturally he went charging straight through the weeds and lalang at top speed...i couldn't even see him. just weeds and leaves swinging around and the sound of him crashing through everything... that's how bad my weed problem is.. i'm glad i don't have to resort potentially harmful solutions. thanks for the vinegar idea. will buy a load tonight and spray the lalang this weekend.
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Re: Safety : Clean Green for a Cat-Safe Home
hi lynie
you must have lots of fertilizer in your garden! that sounds like a mini-jungle you have from your description! {shy} i don't remember seeing all those weeds when i was last at your place! :-) but i also remember reading somewhere that vinegar as a weed-killer is not specific - it will not just stop at weeds - it doens't recognise whether a plant is weed or not - so if you have other plans you want in your garden, make sure you a) apply on the weeds, around the roots b) do it when it's not raining - otherwise it's as good as not doing i think the current spell where it is hot in the day and rainy at night is encouraging lots of weeds to grow. yeah, i know what it's like the my simple little backyard a mere 3 ft by maybe 15ft square is like a mini jungle there - i dare not venture in there - i let the stray cats roam there and do their business there - so my neighbours have one less reason to harm the stray cats Quote:
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