• kadu@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    A house with cats can smell amazing, but it does require an extra effort into cleaning and extra cash for better litter.

    What’s physically completely impossible is to have a house without fur. Just learn to live with the fact that there will be fur between your ass cheeks, sandwich, computer, eye balls.

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      1 year ago

      Very very true.

      If you just regularly clean the litter box and use decent litter, smell is not an issue at all.

      But no matter how often or thoroughly I brush and deshed my cats, there will ways be hair everywhere.

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      1 year ago

      We were fur free with regular vacuuming and a roomba.reallt depends on the type of cats

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        1 year ago

        Check out Purina liveclear food and shampoo, I just moved in with a cat and have pretty bad cat allergies, but feeding the cat that food and occasionally rubbing on some of the dry shampoo seems to have mostly eliminated the issue. I can rub my face in the kitty’s belly no problem.

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        1 year ago

        Its actually a misconception, its not the fur thats causing the allergic reaction, its actually a protein the cats produce that can be found in their saliva. So when they groom themselves, the protein gets onto their fur.

        Interesting fact, intact males produce more of this protein compared to female and neutered males.

        Also, you can buy certain cat food that will help manage the protein (it doesn’t eliminate or stop it being produced, it just deactivates the protein). So thats one possible solution for people with allergies. Though if you’re super sensitive, it mightn’t help much.

        EDIT: here’s the source

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            1 year ago

            I think most doctors and researchers would love an answer to that question as well - allergies are weird

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            That I’m not really sure. I do know however that early exposure (from childhood) to allergens helps prevents allergies from developing later in life.

            So people who had a cat when they were a child are much less likely to develop cat allergies when adults, and similarly children who eat nuts are less likely to develop nut allergies

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      1 year ago

      What would better litter be? I’ve tried about every brand I’ve seen in the past 5 years and the ones that have worked best are just regular brand. Maybe faster clumping is helpful (currently using Tidy Cats Instant Action), but I’ve never seen a noticeable improvement on smell.