PSA: a product that will actually kill cat urine smell!

[talkofthetown]

OMG. This stuff is fantastic! One of our kitties apparently couldn’t be bothered to take their fluffy little butt to the litter box, because we sat down on the leather couch the other night and caught a strong whiff of cat pee. :no: I know how almost-impossible it is to get that smell out. I tried all the household things I already had- vinegar, baking soda, fabreeze, lysol wipes, even a mild bleach/water solution. (this was on the fabric part underneath the cushions…the urine seems to have been on a crack between the two cushions so it’s mostly “in” the couch, not on the seat part.)

I got fed up and went to Wally World and stared at the “pet stain and odor” shelf trying to figure out what to buy. I ended up choosing this, for no particular reason: http://citrusmagic.beaumontproducts.com/pet-care/citrus-magic-pet-odor-eliminator

I removed the cushions,and sprayed it on the sides and bottom of each cushion and the couch where the cushions normally sit. Left everything out to get some air, and sprayed again the next morning. I sprayed/aired out a total of 3 times. That smell is GONE. Like, my nose 2 inches from the couch and smelled nothing GONE. Highly recommend!!!

[mswillie]

Thanks for the tip! I’m going to find some.

[Laurierace]

It will be back, probably within a day or two. Sorry. This is the only thing I have ever found that even came close to working.
http://www.amazon.com/Thornell-CO-OC-THORNELL-Cat-Odor-Off-Concentrate/dp/B0002XJ11E/ref=sr_1_5?s=pet-supplies&ie=UTF8&qid=1418485316&sr=1-5&keywords=cat+odor+eliminator

[talkofthetown]

[QUOTE=Laurierace;7906572]
It will be back, probably within a day or two. Sorry. This is the only thing I have ever found that even came close to working.
http://www.amazon.com/Thornell-CO-OC-THORNELL-Cat-Odor-Off-Concentrate/dp/B0002XJ11E/ref=sr_1_5?s=pet-supplies&ie=UTF8&qid=1418485316&sr=1-5&keywords=cat+odor+eliminator[/QUOTE]

Way to kill my hopes and dreams…:no: :lol: But seriously…really? Dang it. I was so excited that I killed it so easily. Thanks for the link.

[Laurierace]

Learn from my experience. I have enough for both of us unfortunately!

[mswillie]

[QUOTE=talkofthetown;7906585]
Way to kill my hopes and dreams…:no: :lol: But seriously…really? Dang it. I was so excited that I killed it so easily. Thanks for the link.[/QUOTE]

Well I’m going to stubbornly hold on to hope. If you remember, can you post an update in a week or two?

[talkofthetown]

Absolutely! If I forget, feel free to bump:yes: I am going to live in denial until/unless the smell comes back. Fingers crossed that it doesn’t, but normally Laurierace knows what she’s talking about.

[Laurierace]

I would love to be wrong on this one, let me know either way.

[vxf111]

I have had pretty decent luck with Simple Solution by SATURATING (and I mean SATURATING) the pee area multiple times. But all of those times I got to the pee right after it happened.

Laurierace, I’m interested to try that product too but I want to try shampooing the carpet first. There are spots where the former owner’s dog peed on the basement carpet. My dog is perfectly toilet trained except she will go to those specific spots and mark them. Not a full pee, just a mark. So it seems clear to me that she’s reacting to the other dog’s urine smell. I want to first try a complete shampooing of the basement carpet and then SOMETHING on the spots. But they’re old… so I don’t have tons of hope.

[Jhein12]

Bleach I find makes it worse because the smell mimics urine to the cat so they may want to go back to the area. I find that Nature’s Miracle works good. My cat peed 1 time outside of the litter box when he was sick and I used that and a blacklight to make sure I got it all out of the carpet.

[Laurierace]

[QUOTE=vxf111;7907063]
I have had pretty decent luck with Simple Solution by SATURATING (and I mean SATURATING) the pee area multiple times. But all of those times I got to the pee right after it happened.

Laurierace, I’m interested to try that product too but I want to try shampooing the carpet first. There are spots where the former owner’s dog peed on the basement carpet. My dog is perfectly toilet trained except she will go to those specific spots and mark them. Not a full pee, just a mark. So it seems clear to me that she’s reacting to the other dog’s urine smell. I want to first try a complete shampooing of the basement carpet and then SOMETHING on the spots. But they’re old… so I don’t have tons of hope.[/QUOTE]
I add some of the concentrate to the carpet cleaning solution to deodorize the whole carpet as I clean,

[Romany]

I’ve noticed that our cat’s pee, since he eats only canned cat food (despises dry stuff, and would :dead: if he had to live on it), has no smell at all. Really, none whatsoever. Guess it’s because it’s very diluted, not concentrated?

[Jhein12]

[QUOTE=Romany;7907690]
I’ve noticed that our cat’s pee, since he eats only canned cat food (despises dry stuff, and would :dead: if he had to live on it), has no smell at all. Really, none whatsoever. Guess it’s because it’s very diluted, not concentrated?[/QUOTE]

Probably because he is getting more moisture. My cats get raw and theirs doesn’t smell as bad as on dry either.

[cowboymom]

I use the same stuff as Laurierace recommended and I love it; I have a thread on here somewhere about it. I had a small dog bed that the cats had been using as a pee hole for weeks before I figured it out… I soaked it in tons of soap, hot water and that deodorizer and then dried it in the sun for an afternoon and I swear I would use it as a pillow now. The bad smell is gone and I actually really like the smell of the stuff.

I’ll watch for a review of the your stuff, OP, too in case I’m ever out of the Thornell! The more cat pee solutions the better!

[french_fry]

I’ve had good luck with Nature’s Miracle and its ilk. That said, our cat doesn’t regularly go outside the box (so we’re not trying to use it on a spot that has been repeatedly peed on over time - those are tough!) and we live in a small apartment so when it does happen we typically catch it right away.

Our worst incident was when she peed on the bathmat and for some reason (maybe because of the exhaust fan and the air purifier we always run in the bathroom) it wasn’t like a full-on puddle of cat pee smell; it was more of a random hint of cat pee every once in awhile that we couldn’t quite figure out. Over the course of a couple of days it got stronger and stronger. I eventually pulled up the bathmat and saw the big yellow stain on the bottom, but at this point it had soaked into the grout between the tile.

It took repeated applications of basically mopping with the stuff over the course of a couple of days but we did get it out without having to re-grout.

[chestnutmarebeware]

The Bissell enzyme cat-pee remover (I get it at Petsmart) also works very well, and has a really nice lemon smell.

[talkofthetown]

So far, so good! I have my guard up though in case the smell comes back.

[Laurierace]

Awesome, keep us updated. I could alway use a cheap alternative for the less than horrific odors that I run across. Like just now when I couldn’t figure out why there were little brown spots every couple of feet on my carpet. Then I checked the bottom of my shoe…

[spotted_draft_x_fill]

Yes definitely let us know if it still works. I’m sure if it works on cat pee, it should work on getting the urine smell out of my kid’s mattress.

[BarbaricYawp]

[QUOTE=Laurierace;7909726]
Awesome, keep us updated. I could alway use a cheap alternative for the less than horrific odors that I run across. Like just now when I couldn’t figure out why there were little brown spots every couple of feet on my carpet. Then I checked the bottom of my shoe…[/QUOTE]

And that right there would be why we tiled the house… LOL

Another vote for Natures Miracle. We used that on the basement sofa when my house cat threw a temper tantrum at being left alone in the house for a few days. It’s been almost 3 months and as far as I can tell the odor hasn’t returned. You DO need to really soak it, and I let it dry once and resoaked it a second time, just in case.