I made a huge mistake… as a kid, I always cleaned my declawed cat’s litter box by taking the liner out and cleaning it with bleach.

However, my current cat isn’t declawed, and so he pokes holes in the litter lining. Just now, I was cleaning it out… some cat litter had fallen to the bottom through those holes, and I thought nothing of it and simply shook the excess liner into a trash bag.

But when I used bleach (previously had used those expensive disinfecting wipes), I noticed something odd… it got very hot and the bleach burned my eyes.

Then I remembered. Cat urine has ammonia. How could I be so @#$#@ stupid?

I went to the trash bin and threw away the litter box as well as all the cleaning tissues and such, but have I suffered any damage from inhaling this gas? (About a minute or so before I realized what happened) How toxic is “very toxic”?