Cats are the animal representation of cleaning. These rules, natural and innate in them, apply not only to your personal hygiene, but also to your environment and everything related to it. This is the case of smells and smells, an interesting subject in the feline world.
Due to evolutionary processes, cats have their respective olfactory preferences. Just as there are smells you like, there are other smells that you just can’t stand. Whether they are foods that cannot digest strong natural odors or other potentially dangerous chemicals, a cat will always avoid certain odors and escape from them.
- In this Animal Expert article.
- We study 10 smells that cats hate.
- What other smells does your cat hate? Leave us your recommendation at the end of the article.
First, cats have a sense of smell fourteen times stronger than that of a human being. This is due to the fact that the nasal organ of all cats is much larger than that of a person. The olfactory system of a cat breaks down almost the entire head, internally, which ends up being the entire nose.
Cats are not fans of limes, oranges, lemons and similar smells. In fact, there are cat repellents that contain species like these. If, for example, you try to prevent your cat from entering the garden and eat all the flowers, you can rub some orange oil or smear the peels of that fruit. They don’t really appreciate the taste, so it’s quite possible that they stay away from the area where they see that there are many of these elements.
Although they are very good at taste and potassium, cats are not considered friends of this fruit. Rub (outside) a banana peel on the couch or leave it for a day if you want to keep your cat from napping and leave your hair in this part of the house.
Who likes to go to the bathroom with a bad smell? The same goes for cats when their sand is dirty, for no reason, they will want to approach it. A dirty sandbox can make your cat angry with you and make your sandbox an expensive carpet, or maybe wear a pot and maybe a piece of clothing lying on the floor.
Although there are natural sands made with this type of materials (in order to make everything more pleasant to the cat) we cannot abuse the intensity of this smell, since it can have the opposite effect, to the point of hating and rejecting sand. Pass the smells of sand and try to make them as neutral as possible, your cat thanks you.
In this, cats are also like human beings. One thing we like is fish and another thing is that we don’t like the smell of swelled or rotten fish. Because with cats the same thing happens, they hate everything that’s rotten. We recommend that you never try to give it a swell fish, firstly because you’re not going to eat it and secondly because if you force it, it will definitely be sick or intoxicated.
Cats don’t like the smells of spicy or spicy foods like pepper, mustard and even curry. Your sense of smell sees this as toxic.
Cats reject strong, chemical odors. Be careful with the soaps and cleaning products you choose, both for the home and to clean your sandbox and meal plate. Keep in mind that smells attract or repel cats.
Cats love most flowers and plants, however, there are a lot of plants toxic to cats, and it is very convenient to avoid them, although many cats avoid them instinctively.
Most cats have an aversion to the smells of certain plants because they are toxic, a typical case of repulsion is eucalyptus, because their essential oils can be harmful to the animal and he knows it. Nature is wise.
This revulsion is the most interesting of all. Cats do not mind the smell of other felines or felines with which there is already a regular dynamic. However, the smell of a new cat at home could put your fur on its paws, remember that cats are very territorial animals. Humans connect with other people in other ways, cats often connect by smell.
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