I got home from work last week, and my daughter was hysterical.
She was saying something about the cat, and the horrible smell in the kitchen.
I told her to calm down, because I couldn’t understand what she was saying. She told me she caught the cat on the air vent in the kitchen and she was sure he was using it as a litter box. This had happened once before, and I told her that if this happened again, the cat was going to be an outside cat, or it was going to another home. Someone had once told me that once a cat peed somewhere, it would continue to go back to that spot. I wasn’t going to have my kitchen air vent be that spot for her cat. She cried because she loved the cat, but the smell in the kitchen was so bad that I almost gagged. I had told her not to leave the cat in the kitchen, but she forgot to put the baby gate up. I knew the cat could easily get over the baby gate, but it worked as a deterrent when someone was home. When no one was home, the cat was in her crate. After she put the cat in the crate, I got a bucket of hot water, and put some disinfectant in it. I handed the bucket and a scrub brush to her and told her to clean the air vent and the air duct. I showed her how to remove the air vent cover, and told her to let me know when she was done. We were going to discuss what we were going to do with the cat.