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- Subject: Re: Cat mistakes sleeping bag for litterbox
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 19:08:40 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <1992Nov20.055711.1989@tc.cornell.edu> eacj@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Julian Vrieslander) writes:
- >I had my sleeping bag in storage, stretched out on the floor of a closet.
- >Imagine my surprise when I found that my girlfriend's cat has been pissing
- >in it for the past several weeks.
- >
- >This is a decent quality light-weight bag (North Face), made of ripstop
- >nylon and goosedown. The bag was really soaked. Is this likely to be
- >salvageable?
-
- Cat urine's not that bad, at least if it's *not* an un-neutered male cat.
- Just put the bag in the washing machine, use a gentle cycle and detergent,
- and maybe throw in some baking soda in the rinse cycle. Put a tennis shoe
- in the dryer with the bag, and dry it really thoroughly (not too hot though)
- to eliminate clumping.
-
- There's no reason to take this bag to a dry cleaner, and several good
- reasons not to. First off, dry cleaners emit some pretty noxious pollution,
- whereas you can use a pretty harmless laundry detergent. Obviously, you'll
- save at least 5 or 10 bucks by avoiding a dry cleaner. In terms of the
- much larger inestment in the bag itself, I've never ruined anything in
- the 8 or 10 times I've washed and dried down items, whereas the one time
- I sent a down jacket to a dry cleaner, it came back with the down badly
- matted and clumpy.
-
- Eric Edlund
- U.C.Berkeley Geography
- eric@pollen1.berkeley.edu
-