My New Onion Trick

As most people obviously know, we have cats.

 

Wat?

Multiple cats.

So we have major litter issues. I've gone through multiple types and finally settled on one I hope will work out in the long run--but no matter how many times a day I scoop, our house smells like... Well, like we have multiple cats.

I was looking around for a way to help clean the air in the house when I stumbled across the craziest thing I'd ever heard: using onions to combat the used-litter smell. This person suggested taking a small onion and cutting it in the middle, putting it in a bowl and placing it near (but not right around/in sight of) your litter boxes.

Crazy? Maybe. BUT IT WORKS.

I don't know the science of this, but from what I read there's something in the oniony stuff that makes our eyes water that counteracts the ammonia and other potty smells from cats. I was shocked when I came downstairs the next morning and couldn't smell the litter at all. The really crazy part is that I couldn't smell onion either.


I'm sure someone who doesn't live here can smell at least a little something, but even after leaving the house for several hours and walking back in, the air was clean. I had to walk down and stand over the litter boxes before getting a whiff at all.

I did take this a step further and put the onion in a bed of baking soda, so I'm not sure how much that's helping--and I don't care because I don't smell litter one bit!

What could it hurt to try?

Oh, though you do want to replace the onions after about a week, as they'll dry out then start to rot. You don't want to replace cat-urine-smell with rotting-onion-smell.