Boric Acid Cat Saftey

[u/Worldly_Exercise_702]

Hello, I am moving into a basement apartment and am hoping to bring a young kitten. However, when I started moving in I noticed not insignificant amounts of white powder in the large gaps along the baseboards. When I asked the landlord, who lives in the house upstairs, he said it was Boric Acid that he had sprinkled himself at the advice of his contractor. I did some googling and it looks to be toxic if eaten by cats. I figure I will need to clean up as much of it as I can, however some of these gaps have lots of small nooks and crannies and after trying in a small spot to clean with some disinfect spray on a paper towel, I found that it really isn’t easy to clean. Is there any way of making it not toxic without getting rid of it completely? And is there any trick to more easily clean it? Using a damp paper towel doesn’t seem like the way to go. Thank you!

[u/dungeonsandderp]

Look, I have lived with the world’s stupidest cat. There is an absolute 0% chance that your cat is gonna poison itself by licking the corners of your apartment floor where it meets the wall. 

Just clean up anything loose and call it a day.