On Reasons For Home Odors – Pets and Diet

Hello Bob, it was nice to learn about the lovely scent in these plants, but I would point out that the “odors” alluded to are an indication that the home has an occupant whose internal organs are not healthy BECAUSE their DIET is UNBALANCED.

In humans, who eat minimally processed whole foods that are predominantly (over 90%) vegetable/fruits and leaves, the body gases are not “odorous”. And whenever there is some *odor* present, there should be some attention to diet and to health status.

Similarly you will easily demonstrate that this is true in other animals as well. When your cats are appropriately fed, their litter box contributions do not cause people to leave the house. If you are feeding your cats *kibble* to ANY DEGREE, the litter boxes are thoroughly offensive. But just change those cats to an all meat, raw food diet and their stool will NO LONGER SMELL anything like the litter box of a poor kibble-fed cat.

To complete the picture, the litter box should be using a carbonaceous source to balance the nitrogenous components in their stool and urine. But the change in the cats’ litter box contributions is dramatic, and the realization is the proof that diet and nutritional medicine are linked to the odor problems and should not be just covered over by a nice stronger odor.

We have used a thermophilic composting unit in our home for a few years now and the key to keeping the bio-remediation bucket nice smelling is that carbonaceous additive (shredded paper and similar carbon sources) that users toss over their “stuff”, just like well naturalized cats do. Any sign of even the slightest odor means that the chemistry needs balancing with more paper/carbon. Not a cover up. The chemistry is almost immediately effective.

Of course if you still engage in that disgusting official practice of creating SEWAGE IN YOUR HOME then maybe the chemistry isn’t quite so nice to your well being. After using the thermophilic system for this amount of time, it is just unbelievable that we EVER tolerated the government’s mandated creation of sewage in our home.

And btw, we did convert our litter box design to accommodate these composting practices by creating an undertray (with drilled holes in the cat’s standing area) where we place the newspaper to balance the cat’s urine. The cat’s stool is scooped (just like you do to walk a pet) and dumped (and covered) into the bio-remediation bucket. No odor, at all. Clearly we would be averse to the use of scents to mask the early warning clues of health problems.

Hope that helps.
MJ R——, PhD