Cleaning Up Cat Vomit and Poop from your Floor and Carpeting
If you now have or have ever had cats as pets, you know about the vomit and hairballs. Sometimes if a cat has a feeder or constant access to dry food, they will gorge themselves. If this happens they may tend to throw it up later on, into what will look like a mushy tube of dry cat food. We never really know if it is from the amount of food, something in the food, or another variable altogether.
To clean up cat vomit, the easiest way is the get some paper towels and pick up the solid contents. Cleanup will be easier on hardwood or laminate floors than on carpeting. On solid flooring any liquid residue can be easily wiped up with some towels. On carpeting, you need to try and get the residue up before it sets into the carpet. You can do this by sopping up the liquid with cloth or paper towels. Then to further help remove any stain, get a rag with some soapy water and scrub the area a bit. Enough to loosen the stain, over scrubbing may work against you and drive the stain in deeper.
The same idea can be applied to stray cat poop. Cats constantly groom themselves and prefer clean areas. If a cat’s litter box is not cleaned regularly, they will decide not to use it and do their business in an area next to the box or somewhere else. Again if this happens on a hard surface it will be easier to clean up than that of a fibrous surface like carpet. So if you keep your litter box in a carpeted room, be sure to keep it clean. Kittens may go in different spots around the house, until they adjust to the use of a litter box.