Look, as a kid who definitely mixed a lot of chemicals he shouldn’t have… you have to mix a lot of ammonia and bleach to do anything.

Just don’t let him start playing with aluminum and iron iii oxide powder inside… because that makes a mess!

No idea why you’re getting downvoted, you need sulfur to make mustard gas. This is just run of the mill chlorine gas

No idea that whould happened, Wouldn't have cat.. I would put a bit of bleach in water so your right I guess I did know that.

I do know that bleach and ammonia are a problem, but that is because my father used that to kill ant farms when I was a kid.

Some idiots have also used it to clean floors and caused damage to my roommate's lungs—terrible stuff.

Pickup some krud kutter, and he won't make this mistake twice. It's really good at cleaning up urine stains. IME am a cat owner.

I even use it in my ultrasonic cleaner, and if I have greasy clothes, a small bit goes into the wash with the clothes.

I’m Canadian and we covered all of this in high school in science and chemistry classes, both of which my husband and I took, he just didn’t pay attention in them and admits that.

I recommend natures miracle, just buy a gallon of it

I haven’t heard of this before. Thanks for the info I’ll have to find some!

Probably the first "I used my wife's laptop" post I've ever read on TIFU that didn't involve discovering evidence of cheating.

One of the best things about Reddit/going to college or moving out, is that you really learn that America’s education system needs a better national standard of what should be known.

Cause even though I knew about the mustard gas thing, I wouldn’t call that basic chemistry at all.

This.

And I’ve been told that the scent of bleach actually stimulates cats to pee over it.

On your side. Pee and bleach don’t meet initially. Chemistry. That’s why special products exist. You can bleach the bad areas after the fact, after they’ve had lots of time to get exposed to home.

Why? Is he not also a grown adult?

Chlorine gas?

As a 28 year-old male, I should mention that I also would've made mustard gas unintentionally. And I had to clean my house as a teenager. I never had pets though.

FYI You're going to want to use an enzymatic cleaner wherever the cat peed. There's a scent in the pee that may cause it to pee there again and other cleaners don't always get rid of that smell completely

Girl I thought the same 😭I seen a TikTok about a bleach pregnancy test

Oh, whoops, I thought this was in another sub and forgot the title by the time I reached the end of the post… when did TIFU change its icon to this white and blue?

I could see this happening in my household lol

Was she asking? Wrong sub homie

Agreed! Wtf are these peoples problems? Lol

What?? How? You sound terrible.

I'm not gonna lie, everyone on here sounds mad, but I think it's kinda funny. No one got hurt, he learned a lesson, and you learned that you gotta guide him more.

Shit happens

Yah this is your FU for sure. "Basic chemistry" is not knowing that urine and bleach make mustard gas. I had no idea this was a thing until this post. Basic chemistry is known that H20 is water and CO2 is carbon dioxide. And other simple stuff. Not knowing what not to combine with bleach - especially when your spouse tells you to go clean something with bleach.

Yeah this is 100% on me lol. I should have specified HOW to use the bleach.