Cat urine in carpets

[Disneylover79]

What is the best way that you have found to get cat urine out of the carpet? I have a carpet cleaner I also have OUT! oxy-fast stain and odor remover...so what is your advice?

 

[phillmolly]

new carpet and padding.

 

[SaraJayne]

new carpet and padding.

Yup. And sometimes new subfloor underneath. That is the only way you'll get rid of the smell completely.

 

[XYSRUS]

All of the above!

 

[aprilgail2]

Yup. And sometimes new subfloor underneath. That is the only way you'll get rid of the smell completely.

Cat urine is one smell that you can't just get out of carpet!

 

[Hillbeans]

Cat urine is one smell that you can't just get out of carpet!

Yes - sad but true. It will never come out completely and once it's marked they will go there again at some point.

 

[ohiomom28]

Cat urine is one smell that you can't just get out of carpet!

My cats only peed there a couple times but I have done these steps repeatedly and can no longer smell it unless you put your nose directly on the carpet.

Blot up the pee if its new and still wet. Mix white vinegar and water 50/50 and wet the area down to the pad but not SOAKED. Dry that up as much as possible with a towel. Sprinkle baking soda on the stain. Mix together a 1/4 cup hydrogen peroxide and a teaspoon dishwashing liquid (dawn). Drizzle this over the baking soda and rub deep into carpet with gloves. I've also added scope mouthwash into the last mixture once, but I couldn't stand smelling it. Allow carpet to dry and vacuum the next day. It will be crusty looking but it does eventually work after a few times. I also used my carpet cleaner on it a couple months later. Note that any time you get the area wet in the future, it will release the smell again but it doesn't last long.

 

[Coconut36]

Cat pee is the worst thing ever to try to remove! My cat would punish us if we changed her litter and go out of the box. Ugh!

I found towards the end of her life a product called Odorzout

http://www.amazon.com/Odorzout-Pet-All-Surface.../dp/B0002V381U

I would steam clean the spot, once fully dry I would then sprinkle with the Odorzout. I generally did the Odorzout twice but the smell would generally be gone by the time I was done.

 

[Disneylover79]

new carpet and padding.

I know this will be the ultimate outcome but I was looking for a quick fix for now...we rent so we are waiting until the last minute to replace the carpet (which we will do)....Thanks

 

[laurie31]

My first thought when I read the OP was "with a knife" because I have BTDT but until the time comes when you can rip out the carpet, go here: http://www.planeturine.com/

This is the only stuff I found that works.

 

[Gisele]

No thank you, I already gave at the office.

 

[Stitchfans]

When we were trying to sell our house up north (IL) to move to southern IL we had a big problem with car urine odor in the carpet. Our oldest cat was senile and urinating behind the recliner chair in the living room. We steamed cleaned that area numerous times. Put all sorts of things on it to try to mask the odor. Our Realtor kept telling us we had to rip up the carpet and replace it.

There was no way we could afford to do that. Especially since we had spent a small fortune which we did not have to improve other parts of the house. We were very very lucky though because a young man bought the house knowing the entire house had hard wood floors. He had plans of ripping out the carpet and fixing up the floor underneath. Sure glad we did not replace the carpet since it would of been torn up any way.

 

[Bilberry]

Using the carpet shampoo cleaner many many times over the same cat pee spot! That seems to have worked for me. I no longer smell the odor, thankfully. I hated to do it, but needed to move my cat outdoors recently, into the garage. He'll have his own outdoor patio, with easy to clean plastic boarding soon!

 

[snarlingcoyote]

I've had good luck with shampooing the area with hot, hot water several times, until the pad has been saturated and dried at least 3 times. If the smell doesn't go away when I press my face to it, I then pour vinegar onto the area until the vinegar saturates the area. I let it air dry. Repeat at least once, possibly twice. The smell will generally go away if you are diligent with this. It's a lot of work and a pain in the rump though and your carpet is thoroughly worn down when you're done, but at least it doesn't smell!

Also, I'm proactive these days. Any time I see a pet even looking crosseyed at a particular "spot" I put a plastic table cloth other the area.

Of course, this doesn't help when you've got a very old cat going into kidney failure who pees everywhere, and her pee doesn't smell for a couple of days. I shampoo the parts of the house that are hers every weekend.

For fresh stains that haven't had ANY time to set, I can just blot dry and saturate with enzyme, and I'll never know the smell was there.

I'm going to try that planeturine stuff, Laurie31. Another $25 in my relentless search for smell removal.

 

[SC Minnie]

Yup. And sometimes new subfloor underneath. That is the only way you'll get rid of the smell completely.

That's what my vet said when I asked him.

OP. To be honest I never found anything to get the stain out of our carpet and I tried it all.

 

[cari12]

I know this will be the ultimate outcome but I was looking for a quick fix for now...we rent so we are waiting until the last minute to replace the carpet (which we will do)....Thanks

NO! -Not the ultimate outcome until you are ready to replace the whole thing. I had a cat that would sometimes pee on the livingroom carpet and this worked. Figure out the exact area and make the following solution:
2 cups Hydrogen Peroxide
add 1 tsp of baking soda and stir with a plastic spoon (metal may cause a reaction?)
Add one drop liquid handsoap and stir and pour on affected area ensuring you are covering all of it.
Let dry and then vaccuum -odour should be gone.

 

[MICKEY88]

https://www.geturinegone.com/?rtag=urinegone&

 

[janabananas]

I used Kids and Pets. It is in a large yellow bottle, and it has saved several articles of clothes and has helped tons with mattresses and carpet. It is an enzyme cleaner, and I have been very satisfied with it.

 

[taylor3297]

Use something like Nature's Miracle or Petzyme. Each have an enzyme that will really get the smell out. I have used both and worked wonders. The key is to not just pour on the exact spot. Pour enough so the more than the original spot is covered and the carpet is saturated. It needs to get down into the pad.

 

[minniecarousel]

A company called Biofog makes SCOE 10X (Super Concentrated Odor Eliminator). It's available on-line and it made a big difference. I also used the Bissell SpotBot on the areas after using this stuff (a few days later, when it was dry) using clear water and the combination seemed to work.

We've moved to a different home and so far (fingers crossed!) the cats seem to be peeing only in their litter boxes.