Camelot Cats Cattery

The following is based on the experience of Camelot Cats and should not be taken as a specific recommendation for anyone to use arbitrarily.  Always, contact your local Veterinarian for specific advice on the care and treatment of you pet.  Camelot Cats accepts no responsibility for others using the following information and specifically recommends that only a Veterinarian should be consulted for unique care and feeding of a pet.
 
There are two types of Persians; male and female.  Typically, the male has a more noticeable odor than the female.  However, the need to control odor is universal although in degrees based on the sensitivity of the pet owner's nasal sensors and the amount of odor eminating from the feline friend.
 
Next, it is important that everyone knows that a pet must be "fixed" (spay or neuter).  The whole cat, either male or female, is more often recognized by the sensitive nasal passages that its altered counterpart.  Also, SINCE BOTH MALES AND FEMALES CAN SPRAY, it is in the owner's best interest to get the cat fixed.
 
Finally, for the show breeders, your male cat is likely to spray.  This is a natural statistic and can not be eliminated from the feline genome, only depressed through careful breeding; not eliminated.  So, since there is a chance, even expection the male will spray and since male urine is maloderous in degrees of which is always offensive, controlling odor must be part of a good cattery strategy.  Now, don't forget the girls.  I have one, Lady Smidgeon, that sprayed just like she was one of the boys until we had her fixed.  Now, she is just fine.  The lesson here is that females also mark territory when in heat.  The boys usually spray and the girls usually just squat and leave a urine stain on the carpet.
 
Since Camelot Cats has travelled down all these smelly roads before you, we offer some advice based on experience.  The following is what Camelot Cats does to control odor.
 
First, we keep the cattery and all the litter boxes as clean as humanly possible.
Second, we keep the cats in the cattery as clean as humanly possible.
Third, and extreemly important, we us a odor neutralizer called XO and neutralizer/detergent called XO Plus.