Help! I've curried my cat..

[HappyEverIftar]

Any ideas on how to remove curry stains from cat fur??

Made a curry last night and because I'm a slattern I was tired, left the dishes in the sink. My girl, despite having a perfectly decent water bowl, obviously decided that wasn't good enough and has somehow managed to get the oily residue off soaking dishes, onto her white fur.

I came down this morning to find curry paw prints on the couch and orange oily body blobs where she's been sitting/laying down. She hates her tum being touched, so have tried to towel her off. Is there anything I can do to get this off her? Or just nature take its course and she'll wash herself of it, eventually? My couch on the other hand..

This reminds me of when my friend's (white) cat used his paws to scoop some leftover curry from the pan. He had bright orange paws for days.

You could try, one of the Professional, cleaning services for the sofa. The cat will, almost certainly, clean herself- she might even get a 'taste' for Curry. Thanks, for the laugh, hope it all gets Sorted soon.

My dog rolled in pigshit at the weekend, and I still haven't washed it off her back If there's a prize for being slatternly am I in the running?

Our animals are funny little things aren't they? wouldn't be without them.

Best thread title ever Glad you got it sorted OP.

Sunlight is the best thing to get rid of yellow turmeric stains, can take a day or two but in this weather it should be quick!

Reminds me of this www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-36490552
Now that’s a curry stain

ahhh but look how happy she is with herself! She'll wash herself eventually.

Try butter.
To get engine oil stains out our cat I rub the fur with butter then blot with kitchen roll. Strangley it lifts it , honest I didnt believe the person who told me to try this ( our vet btw)

Does anyone remember the curried seagull??!! https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/09/seagull-dyed-orange-after-falling-into-a-vat-of-curry/amp/

My son (now 17) once painted the gerbils black. There was one that was black and it was nasty so it was in a cage on its own. He was about three and supposed to be in bed but he got out and went and got the black one out. It bit him so he dropped it and the cat got it and killed it. So, to disguise his crime he decided to paint the others to match it. With poster paints that I had unwisely bought him in big bottles. My son to whom the gerbils belonged met the cat coming down the stairs with the black gerbil in its mouth. He ran upstairs and caught younger brother in the act of painting with paint EVERYWHERE. We had to clean them under the tap in the bathroom and then redecorate the bathroom because the black paint when everywhere. How anyone ever cleans up after a murder I have no idea.

That wasn't his only crime with paint though. One night I got up for the loo and met him on the landing all black. At first I thought he'd been up the chimney so I shrieked for my husband and went and put the boy in the bath. Then we went downstairs. The kitchen was swimming in coffee, water and anything else he could have found to mix up. And he'd painted the springer spaniel blue. She'd obviously obligingly lain on her back because it was her undercarriage that was blue. My husband had to take her out in the garden with the hose (it was summer) while I washed the floor. But we also had a molly lamb in the field who when the outside light went on thought it was feed time and started bleating very loudly. So it was chaos.
He doesn't do the paint thing any more but sadly has hardly improved behaviour wise since.

Tesco sell cleaner that's bright yellow and it gets curry stains out of worktops/ clothes
It's in the bargain aisle bit.

Gosh that poor seagull he did a good job of totally coating himself..

waterhorse it sounds as if you have a creative son there! Did he ever consider a career in art? There's obviously some logic to it from your son's side, but at the time I can imagine the (your) frustration.

Thank you for all the cleaning suggestions. I've tried many of them! It's pretty much faded away and have, thankfully, had no further incidents. Though I was very thorough about tidying up/cleaning away last night's spaghetti bolognaise

He also used to climb onto our roof out of the bathroom window. When he was three. Scary is not the word. And we used to have a grape vine outside the sitting room window. One evening we were sitting there when the vine began to shake. DH said it was too heavy for a cat. So we went outside to take a look. He'd climbed out of his bedroom window, onto the guttering, shimmied along, down the safety grill on the top to floor landing window, gone across the porch roof, and was climbing down the grapevine. He hadn't noticed us so DH put out a hand and he put his foot in it. We had to SCREW shut his bedroom window! He was only about four.
And one day I was in the study and he came in with an old wine bottle. It had a cork in it (thank goodness). He held it up to show me. It only had an ADDER in it!!! WTF? He'd "poked it in with a stick". Straight to DH for him to deal with that - releasing it back into the wild!
And then he also gave himself a sudocreme hairdo once.... That does NOT come off with anything. The whole pot not just a bit. A very short haircut ensued with some hairdressers wetting themselves with laughter.
I could go on......

Our little boy got in a state with what looked like black oil. Came upstairs into our bedroom with cream carpet...black oily paw prints everywhere. Put him straight in the bath but it took ages before his paws were completely clean again.