Either white vinegar or a product called Nature's Miracle will work. Make sure you really saturate the sand!
Martha

White vinegar will work and is a lot cheaper than any product sold to neutralize odors, but whatever product you use, while your human nose might not detect any residual scent, feline sniffers will, so you might be best off removing the urine saturated sand and replacing it. Then mix dairy lime with the sand around those spots to catch any grains you missed and cover the entire area with plastic until you have finished bricking it all over.

But until you have it all enclosed, keep it covered. It's not just the scent. They have now also marked that place by location and cats can be incredibly stubborn.

You should not be feeding feral cats.

they are not feral cats but thanks for your kindness? They may well become feral if I can't find homes for them. But they are very loving and can be picked up etc. Someone owned them recently and left them behind. I'm taking them to a local organization in town that spays and neuters animals. Maybe you would like one brendan? I'm sure your heart is big enough to take a few of them in???? I'll bring them over personally.

There is a special place in Hell for people who abandon helpless domestic animals and are also the ones most likely to end up crying the blues when their kids end up in jail.

rjinga, I guessed they were abandoned pets, because feral cats don't see a huge sand box and immediately think it's the bathroom they are required to use in order to remain members of a polite society.

So while you are waiting to find homes for them, you might put a litter box out near where you feed them and they will very likely use it because it will seem even more akin to what they are accustomed to, and keep them habuated to using one.

All of our cats were abandoned by some rotten SOB's. Their loss was our gain, but I would still feel very good being able to grab any of them and dump them somewhere where they didn't speak the language, had no money to buy food and hadn't much of a clue as to how to hunt their own. Maybe add a few aircraft carrier sized trucks running at high speed, so they could experience the same as does a small animal crouching in terror as they need to cross a road to get to a garbage can, because they are starving. Aggah.

you tell me how you could deny this little baby a scrap from your table? I think not.

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Oh, what a sweet little girl! Surely you plan to keep her?

Interesting combination of tabby and torti there, and why I believe she is- a she.

She is a she but that is not officially confirmed (hard to tell she is so small). She was a baby of one of the cats that came along. The mama had been coming around (no sign of babies) but I suspected she may be prego, since was slightly swollen. Then a few days later, out crawls this little sweetie. she has since taken over the house. To add to her uniqueness, she is a Hemingway cat :) she has 8 toes on each of her front feet!! Her mama was the same (looked like she's wearing mittens).

I tell you IF I could find who owned them, I"d pay them a visit. What a shame that is to do something so heartless to an innocent animal. They are all very sweet cats. I'll keep feeding them til I get them all fixed and then hopefully find homes for them.

And now I"m more than half way through with my brick floor and the GH doors are closed every minute I'm not in there!!! I've hung a sign out front that says "occupied"

Colored up like a girl. Most males aren't as spotted and painted.

Oh my gosh what a beautiful kitten. I wish I hadn't become allergic to them. I miss having kitties around.

RJ, have you finished your floor? Did you bring in your plants before the frost?

Nell

IT'S FINISHED :) WOO HOOOOOO, I just need to sweep more sand between the cracks and finito. I have already put back in place my plant stands because they are open at the bottom and I can work around them.

I put covers over all my plants, it's still too soon to move it all. We have many more warm days than cold ones. So I'm covering stuff up last night and tonight and I"ve moved some stuff into the garage and the GH. I'll get photos on soon :)

Congratulations Rjinga! It seems these projects we begin go on and on forever. ha ha. I decided to heat my gh all winter. I biting my nails in hopes nothing goes wrong.

I would love to see photos of your finished project. :)

By the way...did you keep the adorable little baby?

~Tj~

When I got back from my trip, (DH had been feeding and caring for her) she had stolen his heart too, so she is IN (confirmed via her first $100 vet visit) and has taken over the place. And she has almost doubled her weight since we took her in. She weighed 1 pound and now she's nearly 2 pounds!! what a character she is, and a scrapper. We have another male (fixed) cat who weighs 14 lbs, she attacks him and plays with him constantly. it's a hoot to watch them. he is really good with her and let's her pounce on his head and chew on his ears. I"m going to get a video of them on my camera and post it, it's really funny to watch them.

I had a dream about building a narrow, staggered kinda like a set of free standing stairs, stand to put plants on in the middle of the GH (leaving just enough room to squeeze through) Instead of putting plants on the floor bunched up in the middle. But I'm still sweeping sand into the cracks of my new BRICK floor, which I did 100% by myself and I'm quite proud of. If I ever get all the sand swept in and get it cleaned up all purty, I'm going to take photos to show you guys :) here is a pic of it when I finished laying the brick.

I'll get more photos soon.

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