Faint cat urine smell on couch pillow-WWYD??

[aristocatz]

We just bought a couch from a consignment store-most comfy couch I think we have ever owned and we just love it!! The problem....

For the past two days, I've noticed a faint scent of cat urine. Today I examined it closer and it seems to be coming from one of the back pillows. It may have been there from the previous owner or one of our cats may have done it....though I'm tending to believe the first option because it is a faint smell & if one of our cats did it, it would have smelled stronger, right?

Anyways, we really don't want to return this couch. Otherwise, it's a really great couch & we had been searching for 8 months to replace our former couch (an awful uncomfortable wicker piece of junk). It's a faint smell & I'd like to try and fix this.

What can we do to get this scent out of the back pillow? Is there a certain spray or cleaner that they sell at stores or pet stores I could buy that would get rid of the scent??

Thanks in advance!!!

 

[olena]

My friend tried everything to get it out of her couch. She bought stuff and even soaked the areas in Listerine and nothing worked. She ended up junking the couch.

 

[tiggger1]

First off all I would take the pillow and spray it will a pet urine remover spray. I have also have good luck with frebreeze. My female cat likes to pee on the bed and frebreeze has got the smell out

 

[kacaju]

odormute, you probably need to go online and buy it. I swear it is the best thing ever to get out strong smells

 

[aristocatz]

First off all I would take the pillow and spray it will a pet urine remover spray. I have also have good luck with frebreeze. My female cat likes to pee on the bed and frebreeze has got the smell out

Thanks! Any brands of pet urine remover spray that you might recommend? My DF is stopping at Petco on his way home from work later.

 

[robinb]

It's really hard to get cat urine out of upholstery as it soaks into the foam/etc. My cat (or my mom's cat, don't know which for sure) pee'd on my wheeled laptop case and it soaked into the foam. It has been impossible to get out .

 

[DisneyBlonde]

I would try Nature's Miracle. One of my cats urinated on my bed mattress once, a big sopping wet spot of kitty pee right there where I sleep. I was sure I was going to have it throw it out, the whole room stunk. But I sopped up as much of it as I could (ew) with paper towels, then I saturated the area with Nature's Miracle. Then a few days later I saturated it again. No kitty pee smell at all. I love Nature's Miracle.

 

[LadyShea]

I recommend Kids N Pets or any enzyme odor and stain remover. KnP is widely available and reasonably priced and works great.

 

[aristocatz]

Thank you everyone!! We are going to find one of the brands you mentioned at Petco today!!

Worse comes to worse, we can always re-stuff the pillow, right? The back pillows are all zippered, so that should be easy to replace I think. I'm more worried about the upholstery.

I'm a little annoyed that the original owners of this couch would sell it to a consignment store (better quality consignment store) with the urine stain, but on the other hand, maybe they didn't know it had the odor? It took me a few days to notice it & my DF didn't notice it at all.

I do have a cat that used to pee on things-namely our old shower curtain and rug in the bathroom of our old place Not sure why she did that, but we would replace them quite often after she'd pee on it and she'd just do it again with the new one But I don't think she was the culprit this time. There was no wet or dark spot on the couch & it would have smelled much stronger if it were a fresh stain.

 

[sbell111]

If it is the kind of cushion that unzips, then I would 'natures miracle' the cover and replace teh foam.

 

[DizBelle]

www.zeroodor.com

 

[Mouse House Mama]

I hate to say it but nothing is going to take that odor completely away. It soaks into the foam of the couch. You can't get that out unless you can take the cushion and fabric out and wash it is a washing machine with hot water and strong soap. Anything else is just going to mask it. One nice humid day and the stink will come out. Maybe you can fix it enough to live with but the smell will be there. Good luck.

 

[scrapquilter]

Is it particularly damp/humid today now that you are smelling the faint urine smell?

The smell never completely goes away, and I've noticed here at my house that on a damp rainy day, an old urine odor spot on the carpet will smell much worse than it does on a dry/unhumid day. Something about the dampness accentuates the smell.

Nature's miracle works pretty well, but it is likely NOT to completely eliminate the odor.

 

[Disney Doll]

We cleaned MIL's couch with a rug steam cleaner when there was urine on it and the smell went away and never came back.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

We use Nature's Miracle which is also an enzyme.

It works like a charm. The key depends on how saturated the item or furniture is with urine. If you use any other chemical cleaner on it--that can also affect it.

We had a cat that had trouble with UTI's. The two times we got them--he would use our recliner as his litter box.

It did take an entire gallon of NM the first time (we didn't know why he was using the recliner--and with meds, he got better and stopped).

Not all at once--we saturated until the liquid came out of the bottom and them stopped and let it dry completely. We repeated this until the urine smell was gone. (by the time it was gone--the whole bottle was gone..I think it was 3-4 saturations--pour slowly!)

 

[pppiglet]

Nature's Miracle is the best one we've found. Soak the area and let it air dry. Like the previous poster said....do it a few times and it will go away. Just don't mix cleansers.