Even before I read about this kitty who got burnt I HATED those diffusers. So I grew up with a real disdain for anything scented, including air fresheners, because I got so tired of pretending to be able to smell something or that I could tell one scent from another. I can’t smell anything and even when I can it all smells kind of exactly the same…” I had no idea that other people could actually smell things better than I could, even though I’d heard the stories about my great grandma salting her food heavily because she couldn’t taste things properly having no sense of smell. When I was a kid I didn’t know I didn’t have a normal sense of smell and I could just never figure out the girls who loved scented this and scented that– perfume, body lotion, soaps and candles– they’d shove it under my nose: “Oooh, sniff, isn’t that wonderful?” I’d sniff and pretend to be excited while thinking, “Is she really into this? This is so stupid. Marco, the kitten, likes to chew on the dried wheatstems, which is why I placed them two feet from the diffuser.Īnosmia can be an advantage! I’d NEVER have anything like this in my house.
It is just daft, imho, to use oils, esp strong oils like cinnamon, in a diffuser where cats come into the equation. I truly believe that if one is careful, no harm will come to beloved felines. The massive oak coffeetable against the wall has a large walnut bowl of apples, a Bose cd/radio player, a stack of old philosophy books (mildew-free), an old iron 4″ cat holding a little tray with a halved-geode beneath it (Marco likes to tip over the cat!), an old Japanese ceramic sake bottle stuffed w/ dried wheat stems sitting next to a box pussywillow Japanese lamp, and a reed diffuser-a triangular 3″ bottle filled with rosewater from Turkey. I adamantly am against using an aerosol because of this. You can imagine how careful I am in the household with scents. from illness when I rescued him at five weeks of age. I live with a wonderful cat, Shrimptaro, who has chronic upper resp. I am one of those who uses reed diffusers, although the solution is homemade. My cats drank from a puddle that formed after it rained and were dead within a few days. Personally, I lost four cats to mothball poisoning many years ago when a neighbor put them under their home.
CAT PICA DIFFUSERS SKIN
Have any of the readers dealt with any skin conditions on their cats that were caused by something you believed was safe? Please educate us in the comment section.
I think the majority of us have learned to pay an emergency visit to the vet at the first sign of an emergency. We also have to act quickly, should something like this happen. We have to be smart consumers, and protect ourselves and our pets. Be sure to study up on anything in your home that your pets will be around. It’s a shame we must learn the hard way that just because something is touted as natural doesn’t mean it comes without risks. It would be easy for a child to knock over a reed diffuser, and could prove disastrous, should a child get the chemical on their face or in their eyes. This article is important, not just to cat owners, but to those who have children.
CAT PICA DIFFUSERS HOW TO
“As far as other non-cinn scents, many oils, synthetic and essentials are very skin safe, but you need to know what the base oils are in the reed kits.”įor those who enjoy the aroma of cinnamon, there are many homemade recipes on how to make a safe product to use in a diffuser. One bit of advice I found helpful came from the I Love Dogs forum and stated Cinnamaldehyde is also used as a fungicide. If you Google the term, you’ll find plenty of information on this seemingly innocent natural deodorizer. The danger in cinnamon comes in the form of cinnamaldehyde, which gives cinnamon its flavor and odor. His condition at the time of his first vet visit was much worse. His family says the photo here was made several days after treatment was started. He spent five days at the vet, and this has run up an expensive vet bill. The damage was so severe that Dewey had to be put under anesthesia to debride his wounds (surgical removal of dead skin/tissue). Dewey had chemical burns over a good portion of his belly and on his back legs. They believed the cinnamon just stained his skin, when in reality it was burning and destroying cells everywhere the spill had touched Dewey.Īccording to his family, it took one to two weeks for the damage to show up. His owner cleaned him up quickly, thinking everything would be fine. Dewey had the misfortune of knocking over a cinnamon reed diffuser a few weeks ago. In other words, it would likely cover any lingering cat odors. Reed diffusers are sticks inserted into a liquid used to make a room smell good.
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