6 Cleaning Mistakes I Stopped Making After 40 Years With Cats

The Cat Room Manual, my 46 large-print lessons on living with cats, and a free chapter: margieknowscats.com The cleanest day in Margie's house used to be the worst day of her cats' week, with one cat under the bed and the other rubbing every corner she had just wiped. After forty years with cats, and twenty of them in a county shelter cat room, she walks through six cleaning mistakes that come from keeping house in human, from stripping every bedding and signpost in one Saturday to scrubbing off the grey smudge on the door frame that is really her cat's cheek mark. For each one you get a plain, free fix, including a simple one-room-a-day rota, unscented soap for the litter box and bowls, a predictable vacuum routine, and a way to read a mess before you wipe it up. You will also learn how a ragged shelter towel changed the way Margie thinks about washing a cat's bedding, and how to put the first scent signposts in a new room. Margie is not a vet and says so when something needs one. 0:00 Intro 1:21 One Big Clean Day 4:28 Scrubbing Off Her Signature 6:58 Scents Cats Can't Stand 9:39 The Vacuum Ambush 12:38 Reading Her Messes 15:09 The Towel Story 18:28 Recap and Tonight's Task