# Oh, cool. My friend's cat(s) peed in my shoes. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 22, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cool-my-friends-cat-s-peed-in-my-shoes/644860 "2012-12-22T19:33:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Surb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@The\_Surb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Surb)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cool-my-friends-cat-s-peed-in-my-shoes/644860/21 "2012-12-23T16:06:36Z")
Take the cat a mouse as a peace offering. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cool-my-friends-cat-s-peed-in-my-shoes/644860/22 "2012-12-23T16:09:13Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Eww. Almost as gross as pooping in the cat’s litter box to show it who’s boss. Obviously that didn’t work, for they then pissed in your shoes. Next time try peeing on them (the cats, not your shoes). [/ducks and runs] ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cool-my-friends-cat-s-peed-in-my-shoes/644860/23 "2012-12-23T16:12:10Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > Then throw them away. > > StG Totally. There will come a day, probably a hot summer day, when someone behind you will be wondering where that faint cat pee smell is coming from. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cool-my-friends-cat-s-peed-in-my-shoes/644860/24 "2012-12-23T16:12:38Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > However, my tentative lesson isn’t worth much considering my definitive lesson is do NOT let these asshole cats unguarded around my goddamn shoes EVER again. Yeah, but the tentative lesson may come in handy once they realize your shoes are unavailable and move on to other belongings. Which, if they’re really asshole cats (and not just normal cat levels of asshole) is a definite possibility. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cool-my-friends-cat-s-peed-in-my-shoes/644860/25 "2012-12-23T16:55:47Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > Edit: I’m not sure how a marking dog’s urine is different to “I gotta pee _now_” urine. No, no. I meant that it might cover the scent good enough for a human not to notice, but a dog might be able to detect it and want to resoil the area. “Marking” specifically wasn’t necessary there. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cool-my-friends-cat-s-peed-in-my-shoes/644860/26 "2012-12-23T21:15:49Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Obviously that didn’t work, for they then pissed in your shoes. Next time try peeing on them (the cats, not your shoes). [/ducks and runs] Well I haven’t done it yet, just saying I’d consider the suggestion if these cats don’t back off. If they want war, I’m prepared to bring it. > [@LurkerInNJ](#): > > Totally. > > There will come a day, probably a hot summer day, when someone behind you will be wondering where that faint cat pee smell is coming from. Ha! Well if I start smelling pee during the summer, I buy the pet pee remover and try again. If they still stink, then yeah, fuck it. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cool-my-friends-cat-s-peed-in-my-shoes/644860/27 "2012-12-23T23:35:58Z")
Dunno how to tell you this. I had this happen years ago. We had 3 cats, one took ill and was incontinent. Peed in a BUNCH of my shoes. I washed them with " Anti Cat Pee Odor Away " goop. I washed them in a fuckload of OxyClean. I left them out in the sunlight. Nothing, noooooooothing, got the stench out. I tried wearing the dress shoes thinking I’d sprayed enough " Anti Cat Pee Odor Away " goo onto them. Big mistake. I’m at a funeral and people are looking at me like I smell like decay. Throw out the shoes. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cool-my-friends-cat-s-peed-in-my-shoes/644860/28 "2012-12-23T23:39:20Z")
[Sink the Stink](http://www.sinkthestink.com/) has bacteria eating bacteria, and works very well in peed-in wetsuits. (Was it developed by a doper? I can’t remember.) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cool-my-friends-cat-s-peed-in-my-shoes/644860/29 "2012-12-24T06:18:27Z")
How do we know how bad the shoes smelled before the cat peed in them? ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cool-my-friends-cat-s-peed-in-my-shoes/644860/30 "2012-12-24T22:05:08Z")
The smelled like the piss of unicorns! ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cool-my-friends-cat-s-peed-in-my-shoes/644860/31 "2012-12-24T23:08:10Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > I washed them with " Anti Cat Pee Odor Away " goop. > > I washed them in a fuckload of OxyClean. > > I left them out in the sunlight. I’ve never seen an enzyme cleaner as a ‘goop’, I’m pretty sure that it will always be a liquid that can saturate what every you’re cleaning. You really need to allow the enzyme cleaner to dry completely without anything else. If you added a wash in OxyClean, you basically killed off the enzyme and basically had the OxyClean only. Sunlight doesn’t actually kill pee smell in any significant way. IF you put the object on grass near chlorophyll that may help, but the enzymes are the best thing that I’ve found and they have been effective when you buy a quality product. The enzymes have been developed for a long time for use in hospitals, janitorial services, kennels, etc. IF you buy a quality product they work very well. IF you have a significant amount of urine/poo, then it might take multiple treatments (because the enzymes will only eat up so much bacteria before they are exhausted). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-cool-my-friends-cat-s-peed-in-my-shoes/644860.md?page=1)