Pipe smoke isn't less "sticky", lol. Whether it is less "stinky" always an individual thing.
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If my daughters still lived here and they still had cats I'd smoke inside, haha. It took awhile after the last of them died (the cats) for things to brighten up - the thing I miss the least is random bits of litter everywhere that was in the pee/poo box and either came out from between their toes or fell off the fur around their butts. Never another cat - though I enjoy spoiling one daughter's two cats she has now whenever we see her (at her place).
We’ve had several cats over the years. All have been volunteers, showing up on our property, evaluating our suitability before allowing us to let them in the house. None would use a litter box, preferring al fresco elimination. So the house remains cat-stench free.
Dogs, on the other hand, are vectors for filth. When we bought our house, there was already a dog there, Bud. He was the deceased former owner’s last pooch. The previous owners were smokers. Everything in the house was coated in an impervious layer of brown. It took us a month of sanding, TSP and elbow grease to remove it and prep for paint. I had to sand blast the fireplace.
When we had two Labs, I had to clean the A/C filters constantly. They would clog up with a brown doggie sludge no matter how often we washed the beasts. The front door rug, one of those LL Bean “thirsty” mats where they loved to lie down, had to be replaced annually. I tried powerwashing it, soaking it in Natures Miracle (the old, effective formula), nothing would get the wet dog smell out.
As a kid, I had a large paper route. I got to go into almost every house in our subdivision. I knew immediately if they had cats, dogs, birds or if they were smokers. Did they deep fry? Cook fish? Use Dial soap? Every house smelled different, except for my house, which always smelled completely normal. Your house probably smells the same.
Tula and Zara
Mr. Kitty
Mr. Kitty
Zara
Sweetie and my mom
Dogs, on the other hand, are vectors for filth. When we bought our house, there was already a dog there, Bud. He was the deceased former owner’s last pooch. The previous owners were smokers. Everything in the house was coated in an impervious layer of brown. It took us a month of sanding, TSP and elbow grease to remove it and prep for paint. I had to sand blast the fireplace.
When we had two Labs, I had to clean the A/C filters constantly. They would clog up with a brown doggie sludge no matter how often we washed the beasts. The front door rug, one of those LL Bean “thirsty” mats where they loved to lie down, had to be replaced annually. I tried powerwashing it, soaking it in Natures Miracle (the old, effective formula), nothing would get the wet dog smell out.
As a kid, I had a large paper route. I got to go into almost every house in our subdivision. I knew immediately if they had cats, dogs, birds or if they were smokers. Did they deep fry? Cook fish? Use Dial soap? Every house smelled different, except for my house, which always smelled completely normal. Your house probably smells the same.
Tula and Zara
Mr. Kitty
Mr. Kitty
Zara
Sweetie and my mom
Exhaust to the outside and fresh air recirculating seems to have worked best for me. Purifiers? Maybe. I have no first hand experience.
Totally agree, I told the girlfriend no more cats after this one. We’re regularly vacuuming couch cushions to remove the litter that collects between their toes. Adorable yet filthy creatures.
Yep, back in the day I had to collect 40 cents once a week from 86 paper route customers and I still remember the smells of particular houses and the nursing home I delivered to, it always seemed more acute in the winter when you'd walk in and it would be all warm or oddly when it was a really damp and rainy night. I could pretty much follow the plot of a movie on a Friday night enough folks had that channel going in the living room when I stopped by.
Interesting on the dogs, our lab pup is the biggest shedder we've ever had when she's shedding (right now very little with her winter coat, other times the fur is like tumbleweeds on the hardwood floor), the Setter really not too bad, but honestly I had a beagle growing up in my parents house for 14 years, and she's our fourth dog at this house and pretty much spotless - they live in the house, get their paws washed/wiped if they are out in any mud, brushed after a day afield and so forth. I do change our furnace filter more often than most but it's the same old gray stuff. I'd guess whatever "dog" smells like our house has it's own identity, lol, but I always knew when I was in a house of cats (and yep, it's the litter not the cats themselves), or a smoker, or whatever that really strange smell was back in the 70s a few otherwise very spotless houses seemed to have I can still smell, kind of like the cupboard on my grandma's porch - still remember it . . .
You damn near made me cry.
Those cold, dark and silent winter nights, peddling from one pool of TV light to another, …oh, I didn’t know they watched ABC News…