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I need some quick and easy suggestions to get rid of the smell of cat litter. With our apartment closed up tight because of winter and the addition of the new kitten, the smell is becoming a little overbearing inside the apartment.

It's fine when it's just us here, but mold has caused our shower to have to be re-done and the superintendant is bringing the manager over to see it tomorrow. Hence, I need to quickly get rid of the smell of cat.

Any suggestions on how to mask or get rid of the cat smell?

If I had the money, I'd go out and buy that. Unfortunately, money's a little tight right now.

It's just the litter smell mostly that's the problem. My two boys are fixed, but with my luck, the one we're cat-sitting will start spraying tomorrow right before the building manager gets here.

I'm about to go into serious cleaning mode in a few minutes. I'll try the baking soda and vacuuming. Should I let it sit for any amount of time? I'll go out and buy a thing of Febreeze tomorrow morning and go crazy with it. That should mask the smell hopefully.

I tried opening a window, but they're all iced over so I can't get any air circulation.

I did the baking soda and left it on as long as I could before cats decided it looked yummy. I can't tell if it made the place smell a little better though, I'm so used to cat smells. I'm going to assume it did because they were walking around with their nose to the floor, probably wondering what happened to their 'lovely' smell. I'll see what my fiance thinks when he gets home, if not, it's off to the grocery store tomorrow morning to buy more deodorizer.

We have a fan in our bathroom but it doesn't work right, which is what helped cause this whole thing in the first place. It took the superintendant six months to getting around to semi-fixing it, and by that time, the steam had already gotten into the walls of the window-less bathroom and resulted in mold. But, apparently, he says it's our fault. e.e [/rant]

We moved the litter boxes back into a storage room (they know where they are) so hopefully that keeps the new smells from getting too far into the apartment.

I'll go read that article now.

Thank you for your help, by the way. The best thing I could think of was spraying some vanilla scented body spray all over the place. xD