My cat smells of cow poo!

Get the Fabreze (sp) out. (Put a paper bag over his head before you spray)

Cats can wander a long way. Are you sure there are no cows near you? You've got sheep.

I no longer have sheep jings but yes, there are a lot of cattle around here, but I don't understand how he can smell of it, but not appear to have any on him.

The smell is particularly strong on the top of his head

Did he maybe get some on him, wash himself and now it's his breath/mouth that stinks is less than sweet.

I would not spray Digby with Fabreze because he would try to lick it off and possibly poison himself.

Could he have rolled in it, cleaned himself but not done a very good job of it?

It was a joke Charleygirl, hence the wink.

phoenix maybe it was a dry cowpat where he just got the smell?

Has he been curled up in some farmer's barn where sacks of fertiliser could smell like cow poo? (Thinking really rural now)

Oh, it's not a bad smell!

Not really...

Is the answer to that clue "around"?

Digby's head is the hardest bit for him to reach to wash. He may not have quite succeeded in getting it completely clean.

I'm now wondering if there might have been some dried muck on the underside of a car that he might have rubbed against?

That`s entirely possible Phoenix, our white cat loves sitting under cars, and must arch her back whilst under there, regularly comes in with oil on her back, so Digby could have done the same thing under a mucky car.

Infinitely preferable to fox poo imo, in fact I find it the least offensive of all excrement poop

Try rubbing his head with either a fabric conditioner sheet or a damp cloth with a few drops of essential oil in the water?

loopylou allegedly tomato juice will neutralise the smell of fox poo, if dogs have rolled in it.

(Fox poo, not tomato juice!)

That would have been useful to know when we were farming! I'd have bulk bought stocks..... It's the most stomach churning odour I can think of and it 'clings' if you know what I mean (and not green with envy!)
My lovely rough-coated lurcher had it down to a fine art......

loopylou I do indeed know what you mean about "clinging". We had a collie that was particularly fond of rolling in it, even bathing wouldn't quite remove all of it, but the tomato juice seemed to work!

Did you also find that fox poo had a sort of underlying smell of some sort of mint, mixed in with the other awful stench?

phoenix
I'm not sure about that, I was usually desperate to get her under the hosepipe in the dairy and stop her from leaping on the her settee and adopting her habitual languid pose of lolling on her back with all four legs in the air.
Believe me, it's virtually impossible to eliminate the smell from fabric (starting to feel decidedly icky at the memory 20 years later!), despite using throws.

If only I'd known about tomato juice, she'd have been bathed in it!

"We had a collie that was particularly fond of rolling"

When I was a kid, our Shadow used to love a good roll. He was a bugger for it.

I used to have a lovely little cat that used to seem to enjoy rolling in dried cow's muck- I have to admit that he was a quirky little thing though!

Perhaps some-one has dug some into their garden :-)