removed the underpad, washed the floor under the carpet, had the carpet professionally cleaned with an enzyme cleaner.
I have ‘Febreezed’ the hell out of that whole corner, I put tinfoil all over the floor in that area to keep the furry bastard from peeing there again, and placed a table on top of the whole mess.
Sometimes it doesnt smell, but on a muggy day the humigity seems to bring it out again.
I cant even sit at that end of the couch! I have supersensitive smell sense, and its really bothering me. I cant replace the carpet, its a rental. most people cant smell anything when they come in, but I can.
Help please!
He is a fixed male, and its just on the carpet, its a two foot sq area thats affected, mostly from the cleaning attempts pushing the pissy smell around to surrounding carpet.
He has stopped peeing there, I dont know if it was actually spraying, he just squatted and peed like in his box - the little bugger did it right in front of me once!
Well, there’s a variety of enzyme-based cat deodorants–one of which I’ve used (can’t remember which one, now). It sounds like voodoo quackery (and probably is), but it works reeaaal nice. Comes in a little squirt bottle with a picture of a cat on it…
“Urine-Erase”? I got it at the vet. You combine funky herby stuff with water, pout ofer area, let sit, then soak with solutione #2, then let sit over night, and vacuum.
Nahh, this just was a little bottle with a pump spray on top. Just squirt it on and leave it alone. Worked fine for me, and boy did I have cat urine all over my room (we later discovered he was ill).
Based on our experience, I second the Nature’s Miracle suggestion, Really SOAK the entire carpet area. Don’t be afraid to use half a bottle or more on the area you’ve described – as the pee moves downwards it spreads out. Leave it in, don’t scrub, just get a lot of the cleaner into the area. If the pee hasn’t penetrated the floor under the carpet, it should smell better as the enzymes react with the pee. If it has gotten into the floor, you won’t get rid of the smell without refinishing/replacing/sealing the subfloor.
HTH
I’ve been down this road too many times and I feel your pain. I have really sensitive smell too. My cat pissed all over a pile of freshly laundered clothes. I tried all the commercial solutions, febreeze, etc. Nothing worked. A cat lover friend of mine recommended that I try apple cider vinegar. After buying jugs of apple cider vinegar and washing my clothes in it three times, the smell was finally eliminated.
I’m not sure what to do about your carpet, but if you can stand the smell of vinegar then I’d try soaking it with the apple cider vinegar for a few hours with the windows open. It’s a great odor neutralizer, not really sure why. The only hassle is getting rid of the vinegar smell when you’re done, but it’s not so difficult compared to cat piss smell!
If you aren’t sure where the cat has sprayed you can use a black light to locate the spots. They will show up as bright yellow under the black light.
Please elaborate on your technique. I tried it with a) a 40-watt incandescent-type black light bulb; b) a spayed female cat who pees on the carpet if her litter box is less than clean enough that June Cleaver would eat out of it; and c) an old oatmeal-colored carpet of uncertain vintage and composition. No yellow glow anywhere, even in a spot that reeks worse than the litter box does after not cleaning it for a month, although my sneaker laces did give off the purplish-blue glow indicating they’d once been washed in a laundry detergent with “whitening agents”.
I spent years with this problem and tried so many things. The odor isn’t coming only from the top of the carpet, which is the only part you can treat, it’s seeped deep into the carpet backing, the padding, and in my case, the plywood floor itself. I finally had the carpet and padding replaced and had a carpenter remove and replace the offending parts of the floor.
It was an expensive solution, but it completely solved the problem. The only thing is, if you go to this effort and expense, be very sure your cat won’t ever go there again.
Couldn’t you just use simple highschool chemistry?
I’m not sure if cat urine is a base or an acid, but if it is a base you could find a strong acid (not too strong!!) and soak it in. If it is an acid, find a strong base and let it soak.
The same strategy is used with fish. The fishy smell is a base, so lemon juice was originally used on fish to
counter-act the base and remove the smell. So if it doesn’t get rid of the smeel, atleast it will taste better…but then again, i’m not too sure you’lll be tasting you’re carpet anytime soon.
My cats have been a little offensive lately. Not anywhere unusual, but their litter box has been reeking since the recent heatwave. I keep as clean a box as I can. But it seems just after I change the litter, that awful ammonia cat-piss smell seems to come out of nowhere. I feel your pain. It has a life of it’s own.
p.s. Incense is bad, very bad. Cats and burning sticks of smelly stuff don’t mix.