~Leslie~

Fireraven9
"Don't go to a doctor whose office plants have died." - Erma Bombeck

~Leslie~

I recently moved into a rental with 25 year old carpet and previous renters had pets. I had the carpet cleaned, disinfected, and deodorized. Every day when I return from work, I mist the carpet with Odor Ban. Either I am getting adjusted to the odor or the Odor Ban may be helping, but the odor does not seem as bad. I am however considering purchasing an ozone machine to purify the air. The manufacturer's of ozone machines claim that the ozone will reach areas that we can not clean. Because this is a rental and because I can not afford to replace the carpet, I must live with it.

~Leslie~

Ranchhand,
Can you just cover the areas where the cats went? Like if there are maybe two spots on the floor, wouldn't it be smarter to cover those and a little more area with a few coats of sealer than to use how many cans of sealer painting the entire floor? We thought that we may just do that once the floor is up and we see what we have to deal with.

IF you have the time, when the carpeting is removed, take raw bleach and wet the stain spots first. Have to let it dry couple of days, though. Then apply your two coats.

I hope things work out for you!

Ranchand, I will grant you that it's not the most sanitary solution, but DH has been out of work for 7 months, so for us right now it's truely impossible to rip everything out and get new.

Very often a cat with a UTI urinates inappropriately. If that's the problem, getting that cleared up could be the answer. It's worth a try!

When this first started I took him in to the Vets and no UTI. About 9mo ago I was really fed up so I brought him in again. He did have a UTI. He was put on antibiotics. Our Vet was not optimistic saying at this point it was probably a behavior problem.
The problem persisted. I was wondering how he could change when the entire house had been "blessed by him" for lack of a better word. I'm just beside myself........

This morning I woke up and my asthma was so bad. I had to do something. I decided this would be the day I would start him on Buspirone, 5mg the Vet gave me 9mo. ago. I feel so quilty!!!
I have made a little haven in my room for him - of all places - which is really the best place because I don't want him to have the run of the house but I don't want to lock him in the bathroom either. Last time I tried that he started to get a bit blump.

This happens. My closest girlfriend had a friend that worked at a vet. She knew my friend was looking for a cat. A man had come to the vets and asked that his cat be put down. The man had 3 other cats and this one was not using the litter box.

When my girlfriend and her husband got to the vet their friend lead them to a room. On the metal table was a beautful black cat. My girlfriend's husband took one look and said we'll take her. They took a chance on this cat who was ready to be put down. The cat has been with them for 14 years and not once has missed the litter box. She is the most wonderful cat.

So it would be awful for your cat to be denied a chance like this cat got. My big problem is my little girl who is in love with ours.

There are lots of rescue groups out there. I would put the emphasis on your asthma more than I would the peeing.

Rip out the carpet and pad. If the subfloor is plywood, rip it out too as it is impregnated with the urine too. If concrete, clean with some heavy cleaners and dust with baking soda and let sit for a few days. B/T the baking soda and the lime in the concrete itself, the smell should go away.

I have used about every ordor eliminator product out there and the results range from useless to a cover up smell that turns the urine smell from just urine to a sickeningly sweet urine smell (it was horrible).

SORRY I couldn't be of more help and good luck!

I have tried many of those urine removal products too but none of them work. Last night, I pulled up most of the carpet and can tell you with strong certainty that once a cat urinates on a carpet, it will always be there. There is no magic solution to the problem. The only thing that can be done is replace all of the affected carpet, padding, and seal your floors. I was lucky in the respect that we live in a slab house (no basement) and all of the areas were on concrete flooring. This makes it easy to seal as no sanding is needed. The carpet people are due tomorrow morning and I hope this will mark the end of the cat pee saga. There is only one thing I’m uncertain about. Two of the baseboards seem to have absorbed some of the cat urine. I will try to clean and reseal these also but I have a feeling they will likely need replaced…just like everything else up to this point.

I am a single mother waiting tables at a local restaraunt and definitely cannot afford new carpet! There isn't ANYTHING out there that can take the smell out other than that??

It may turn out awful, but maybe not!

If the spots are near the edge, you may be able to pull up the carpet and clean it, the pad, and the floor from the back side, and then scrunch it back into place when dried.

a cat lover

luckily it was confined to downstairs, and only once on carpet...a lot was on concrete in the basement which we got out with straight bleach.

it also loved to pee in the drains...gross.

the cat is now gone to a new home...i think having 2 males wasnt good... thank god its gone...i was ripping my hair out.

i am a dog person. i love my stupid sloth of a dog....he farts, snorts, slobbers, and is a big dumb moose...

but - and this may offend some people but i am sorry - my dog doesnt pee and poop in a box, drag his feet through it, then run and jump on our bed!

i am so sick of picking cat litter out of the bed....it is everywhere - frikkin gross!!! there are pebbles of cat litter everywhere!!

there has to be something to elimnate that nastyness...

Anyway, so I went to our local FEED store to buy some stuff and found this product, it's called UNIQUE pet odor remover. I followed the direction but the odor was still there, so I tripled the concentrated amount and the smell was gone! I poured the mix directly on the sofa and let it dry on its own.

Try it and let me know if it works for you guys as well. It also works great on our carpet. I also use this product when I'm steam cleaning the carpet, smells nice!

Msjam

We rescued the cat from an adoption center. The cat was abandoned by its previous owners and left in a foreclosed house for no one really knows how long, and we've really fallen in love with her.

We can't afford to rip out the carpet, but if we come to the landlord to get the maintenance guys to take care of it, we're afraid he'd ask us to get rid of the cat.

The pet stain seems pretty fresh, the carpet was still wet when we found it, but the room reeks. We just don't want it to get into the floor below the carpet.

Please excuse the scatter-brained nature of this post, it was 2:30 a.m. when I decided to google this problem and I was lead to this forum.

Step one: buy baking soda and vinegar from your local grocery store.

Step two: Fill up a bucket of hot water and mix it with white vinegar. For a 5 gallon bucket i would say 50% water 25% Vinegar. Now poor that over the urinated spot where your F***ing cat took a piss. Let it sit for a few minutes.

Step three: Now you are going to take the baking soda and sprinkle it on top of the wet spot and watch it bake your carpet.

Step four: Now take a scrub and scrub the sh*t out of that carpet.

Step five: Now let it sit for 24 hours or more. Why? Because you need to let that sh*t soak through your carpet and padding. It will take a few tries to get it down right but it will work.

Step six: Get rid of your cat!

If you use a crevice tool (and yes you have to go back and forth with that little tool) and a reasonably powerful shop vac it will pull most of any remaining liquid out.

For fresh pee, the enzyme things work pretty well if you soak the area, wait a little while, soak with plain water, then vacuum up the moisture with a shop vac.

You are doing about what a hot water carpet cleaner does.
Wet it, then pull the water out.

Now I buy the loose powder. ALERT: Any pro-biotic powder with chlorophyll/grass ingredients will be a disaster. Use ONLY the room-temp stable white powder. The good bacteria eats the bad bacteria that creates the stink of dried cat pee.

The original formula is now marketed on the Internet as Petastic by the manufacturer, Petastic. We have used it for years. It removes all odors of both cat and dog urine and feces. We apply it directly on the area as and also put it in our carpet cleaner 50/50 with the cleaning liquid. Extremely effective. I don't have any financial interest in Petastic, but I do own two 100 pound labs whose owners are happier with a supply of Petastic around.... If you opt to get this product, buying 2 one gallon bottles saves you in shipping costs.

I did not even notice it while she was there- once the air conditioner was off and the house was sitting wow. It hits you like a ton of bricks. I ripped up the corner of the carpet and it is in a section of the floor underneath, and yesterday I think I smelled it in the bedroom so that might be next. Already spent $250 in carpet cleaning and super concentrated odor remover.

This is so awful. I had a cat doing this once and had to let her go live outside at a relative's house in the country. I have learned that more than one cat in a household is a mix for disaster. They get jealous and territorial and next thing you know you have cat pee.

I want to know if anyone has tried an ozone machine to treat the house- not low level but high level treatment for a few hours. I was thinking of renting one to help get the odor out of the house. I know the carpet has to go and the subfloor in the bad area, but the lingering odor in the walls and furniture? Would an ozone machine help?