WTF - Basement smell like cat piss suddenly - we don't have cats!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Our old wooden front door smells this way. Could there be a water problem there? We also have a storm door...

OMG! MY husband thinks I am nuts b/c I keep telling him that our very very old wooden front door smells like a cat peed all over it!!!!! You just made my day. WTF is causing that smell?

The neighbors cat!!!

I am the PP with the stinky door...I just saw this very very old thread pop up again, too funny. We have no cat and there aren't any cats around - plus the stinky door in question is behind a glass storm door. It only smells when you open the door - leading me the believe the stank is contained within the edge of the door, right? It seriously smells like ass. Help needed.

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats on finding the cause. I only mentioned rat snake because I found one in our basement after the snake released its musk odor. Ironic though you are infinitely more happy the problem is a leak. Its a lot cheaper to catch a baby snake than resolve all the issues resulting from the leak.

If I found a snake in my basement, I'd have to move. Or maybe I'd just never, ever, ever, ever go in my basement again.

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can bat urine and cat urine smell alike

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the exact thing happened here at our house but we think we may have bats does any one know what bat piss smell likes

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Am I the only one who thought...really...your house smells like the newborn Katniss?

(sorry, the victim of reading too many odd combinations of threads from "Recent Topics")

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Im the p who mentioned rat snake back in 2012. We live in mclean so its not quite great Falls type country but we do see a fair amount of animals.
Rabbits, Deer, chipmunks, raccoons, Fox, mice, snakes.

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If owners before you had cats, with all this rain, if the basement gets damp for some reason, the smell will come out.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. The guy from Normandy told DW it wasn't a cat piss smell, but was in fact the smell of mold in the early stages. We caught it in time. About a $250 repair for a 10 x 10 section of w2w carpet.

I'd worry more about the source of the leak than the cost of the carpet repair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our old wooden front door smells this way. Could there be a water problem there? We also have a storm door...

OMG! MY husband thinks I am nuts b/c I keep telling him that our very very old wooden front door smells like a cat peed all over it!!!!! You just made my day. WTF is causing that smell?

We have this problem, too. I actually sanded, primed with stain blocker, and painted the door, which helped, but when you open it after it's been closed a while (door to our screened porch is original to the house but isn't opened often), it smells terrible again. It's completely covered and above ground, so I have no idea what it is. Yuck. The storm door I think seals in the smell, so maybe if we lost the storm door it wouldn't be so bad.

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We have developed a cat pee smell over the past month or so, and I can't locate the source. Sometimes it seems stronger if we open windows near the front of the house but when I go out there, I don't smell it. Any tips for locating the source? We can't even consistently decide if it is stronger upstairs or downstairs. TIA.

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Great reasons to never have a cat. or a dog either. pi$$ and $hit.

We have a cat. He has tenure, but when he's gone I'm not going to refill the billet.

When you adopt a cat, the cat nazis insist EVERYONE in the house visit and approve the animal. So anyone (me) gets to veto. DW and 3 daughters will need to negotiate if they want another.

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We were dealing with an occasional foul smell also. I thought we had a sewage leak somewhere. The problem was there was no consistent timing to the smell.

A few days ago I found a garter snake on my patio; I caught it and relocated it several miles away. Lo and behold, I haven't caught a single whiff of that foul smell since the relocation of the snake. I now believe the snake had made a home in our dryer vent, which is very close to where we thought we had a sewage leak.

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What do camel crickets smell like? I use the traps but I leave them b/c I heard they are cannibalistic so I figured the dead ones are bait. My basement has several odors. What do the crickets smell like? Gross!

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I read to be careful cleaning with ammonia if there are cats in the neighborhood because they are attracted to the smell, since it mimics cat piss/musk. Just FYI.

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Rat snakes eat mice - Rat snakes are good snakes.

I live in springfield and once found a corn snake in my basement. (baby snake, thought it was a kids toy, then it moved and I screamed). I'd rather have the snake than the mold.