What is the best way to get dog urine odor out of carpets?

So, I have a beloved 13 1/2-year-old German Shepherd who has been having urinary incontinence for the last year or so. Needless to say, our carpets are a wreck! They get deep cleaned with a steam cleaner every couple of weeks but the Urine odor is persistent.
I, personally, I can live with it. But I know my house is smelly and I am embarrassed for guests to come over. My husband has invited a childhood friend and his new wife and baby To stay for a week and I would like to improve the situation! :slight_smile:
Do any of you have recommendations for great odor neutralizer’s or carpet cleaners, or any home remedies that help remove urine sent and stain from carpets? I have a Bissell steam cleaner that seems to work pretty well . All of my Internet searches are just turning up advertisements for different products …

Thanks in advance!

I’ve had great success with AntiIckyPoo. I had a medically induced incontinent girl who wreaked havoc on my carpets. This is the product the carpet cleaner recommended and he also explained how to syringe it into the padding beneath. It worked well on eliminating the odor, but they were so thrashed in the end, I ended up ripping them out and staining my concrete.

I bought mine on Amazon. Good luck.
http://www.antiickypoo.com

Urine gone

But have you had a vet ck for UTI, Cushings and diabetes? Often, the reason Cushings is diagnosed is because a previously housebroken dog starts having accidents due to excessive water intake. Also, ravenous appetite, loss of muscle mass over top part of body, panting/anxiety at times. The age is right for more vet problems.

Thanks for all of these! We actually just did a full that work up and are waiting on blood work results. While she does have some muscle wasting and neuropathy typical of German shepherds, I think that this is just a leaky Peepee and not accidents from overconsumption of water.

Also, the carpets are already trashed! They will get thrown out when the house gets torn down. Hopefully in the near future! While I have no hope for saving the carpets, I would like them to smell a little bit better at least for next week :slight_smile:

Nature’s Miracle helped with our puppy mistakes - but you have to use enough of it to really soak into the carpet…maybe you just have too much from a full grown dog. Poor dear dog - she must hate it.

Our pup was frustrating me because she was hard to housebreak - then I took a urine sample down and she had a UTI. She was pretty well 100% housetrained as soon as she was off her anti-biotics. Poor girl - when you gotta go, you gotta go.

Our other older dog became incontinent until she was put on the little pink hormone pill. Then perfect.

Or tear up the old carpet, leave the underfloor and lay down a few really cheap scatter rugs.

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Nature’s Miracle helped with our puppy mistakes - but you have to use enough of it to really soak into the carpet…maybe you just have too much from a full grown dog. Poor dear dog - she must hate it.

Our pup was frustrating me because she was hard to housebreak - then I took a urine sample down and she had a UTI. She was pretty well 100% housetrained as soon as she was off her anti-biotics. Poor girl - when you gotta go, you gotta go.

Our other older dog became incontinent until she was put on the little pink hormone pill. Then perfect.

Or tear up the old carpet, leave the underfloor and lay down a few really cheap scatter rugs.[/QUOTE]

If the dog does just have incontinence, the pills do work for many. Op ask your vet about them.

Good; Odoban http://www.odoban.com/

The VERY best; MICROBAN http://www.jondon.com/microban-x-590-disinfectant-3.html

White vinegar and water has worked for us.
First we’d use a fluffy towel to remove as much of the urine as possible and then used vinegar.

What is your subfloor? Wood? Cement?

If wood, your best de-orodizer option might be pull up old carpet, Kilz the pee spots in the subfloor and put down new carpet… :frowning:

I have a 17yo collie mix whose arthritis can make her reluctant to ask to go out. So I feel your pain. One idea, you might want to check the dog to make sure she hasn’t peed on herself. The lingering odor can be partially from the dog.

As said previously, the stain remover Nature’s Miracle is very effective. And very expensive (of course). But good. They have one product called Urine Destroyer, and another called Deep Cleaning Carpet Shampoo, which sound ideal. I’ve used the Pet Stain and Odor Remover, and the 3 in 1 Odor Destroyer, and they both did a very good job of eliminating smells and stains.

http://www.natures-miracle.com/products/pet-odor-stain-removers/urine-destroyer-stain-and-residue-eliminator-how-to-remove-urine-odor-smell.aspx

My dog’s done very well on Proin but recently had to increase the dose to stay dry all night, so you may want to look into ll.that as medication as well.

You might want to try those lights that detect pet urine to find any overlooked areas in the carpet.

Do you have a carpet cleaner or can you rent one? I’ve had good luck spot cleaning with one of the above enzyme based cleaners (or heck, all of them) then about a week later running the carpet cleaner over it all with ammonia and HOT water. The enzyme stuff needs a while to work so a week or so is about right.

Have the carpets professionally cleaned. They have some enzyme thing they can apply to get rid of most of the smell.

Then put a diaper on the dog.

Same advice I gave in the cat pee thread:

If the carpet is synthetic, not wool or natural fiber, you could try hydrogen peroxide. Peroxide will bleach natural fibers and may bleach some synthetics. You can inject it with a syringe or a marinade injector and that will help get it into jute backing and carpet pad.

If this has been a long term problem, the urine is in the carpet pad and perhaps subfloor by now. Commercial carpet cleaners will pull up the carpet, spray the jute backing heavily. They will cut out the section of urine soaked rug pad. They then spray or possibly replace the subfloor and paint it with a sealer like one of the Bullseye shellac products. If extensive sections of pad or subfloor are soaked, then replace an entire room is what you are looking at. Replace pad, put carpet back down, then clean carpet.

In many cases, the carpet can be salvaged, but if you’ve got an entire room that’s used as a toilet, and you are replacing all of the pad and subfloor, get new carpet.

I have a Bissell ProHeat 2x, older style, model 9400 or 9200. And cats. First, I treat rug with peroxide, try to get it immediately before urine starts to stink. Blot, peroxide. I may then use enzyme, depending on whether the peroxide seemed sufficient. Either way, I use generous amount because volume needed = volume of urine. This I can see being a huge issue with dog urine. I would use my nose, find all pee spots, and inject the hell out of them with peroxide as a stopgap or first pass. The Stinkfinder is a weak blacklight that is of some value. But commercial guys have higher power Blacklight’s that do a much better job. The enzyme stinks, so I always have to clean a carpet or spot-clean after. I have pale beige carpets, so I can get away with brooming carpet deodorizer, Arm & Hammer, into carpet after and just leaving it until I vacuum.

Regardless of carpet cleaner brand, you need to first kill the urine and then clean the carpet. Otherwise, you just flood the pee everyplace over a wider area. And you need to EXTRACT virtually all of the liquid out of carpet when you clean, and RINSE with clean water and extract again. Don’t leave dirty water or soap or diluted pee in there. Not all commercial carpet cleaners are fastidious. You need to make sure that the one ya use doesn’t leave dirty or sour or contaminated water in your carpets. In my experience as a DIY-er, the commercial guys used a whale of a lotta enzyme and left boatloads of dirty water in the carpets, and the carpets stank with a different odor and weren’t really clean. And the enzyme makes its own stink later, and you can expect to have to do a standard soap 'n water 2nd cleaning. My Bissell pulled black water out of my carpets after the pros were there. Maybe the pros used recycled dirty water? If I use pros here agin, I will watch them closely.

Extracting takes a long time with the Bissells and Hoovers. You may want to rent a carpet cleaner to get the job done faster. But usually, you have to clean those machines before you can clean your carpets, lol.

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If this has been a long term problem, the urine is in the carpet pad and perhaps subfloor by now. Commercial carpet cleaners will pull up the carpet, spray the jute backing heavily. They will cut out the section of urine soaked rug pad. They then spray or possibly replace the subfloor and paint it with a sealer like one of the Bullseye shellac products. If extensive sections of pad or subfloor are soaked, then replace an entire room is what you are looking at.[/QUOTE]

Unless the carpet is new, replacing a piece may be dicey with a new patch in the middle of older, worn carpet.

I used Kilz to seal the subfloor and that worked just fine :slight_smile:

Replacing a section of pad that’s out of the footpath can be done essentially transparently. If it’s a foam padding that’s commonly sold today, match the thickness for height and the squishiness for feel. Cut everything with a sharp knife and a very square edge. Butt the repair piece up against the old one. Carpet is surprisingly forgiving of a patched piece of padding, but the trick is match height and “squishiness” to the old pad. Most animals pee out of the footpath area, like in corners or toward the wall or baseboard, in my experience. Maybe an old incontinent one goes anywhere / everywhere, but in that case you might as well replace the entire room.

If you have old felt pad or whatever they used in the '60s , '70s, or even longer ago, no, you can’t match that.

Subfloor, or hardwood floor: Real wood can be decontaminated and refinished or sealed. One of my friends bought a house with carpet over oak, and the old man who lived there had peed everyplace, lol. The place reeked. They removed, tossed, carpets and pads; bleached, enzymed floors, sanded, stained, polyurethaned. The floors looked gorgeous and odors were gone.

Pine or hemlock or any old boards, you can usually salvage. Plywood subfloor of exterior grades, maybe but the more urine and the longer the peeing continues, the iffier your chances. You’d treat it and then seal it. Kilz or Bullseye – they are similar. OSB, cheaper plywoods, you should plan on replacing all of it that has gotten wet.

Replacing a section of pad that’s out of the footpath can be done essentially transparently. If it’s a foam padding that’s commonly sold today, match the thickness for height and the squishiness for feel. Cut everything with a sharp knife and a very square edge. Butt the repair piece up against the old one. Carpet is surprisingly forgiving of a patched piece of padding, but the trick is match height and “squishiness” to the old pad. Most animals pee out of the footpath area, like in corners or toward the walk or baseboard, in my experience. Maybe an old incontinent one goes anywhere / everywhere, but in that case you might as well replace the entire room.

If you have old felt pad or whatever they used in the '60s , '70s, or even longer ago, no, you can’t match that.

Subfloor, or hardwood floor: Real wood can be decontaminated and refinished or sealed. One of my friends bought a house with carpet over oak, and the old man who lived there had peed everyplace, lol. The place reeked. They removed, tossed, carpets and pads, bleached, enzymed floors, sanded, stained, polyurethaned. The floors looked gorgeous and odors were

carpet knife…

we have used Natures Miracle and a little green machine. they way we did it- Pour the natures miracle on for a few minutes. THEN use the Little Green Machine to suck it all up. THEN pour very hot water on the spot. then use the green machine to suck it up. This has helped a lot.

We just got newer carpet so the dogs have not had any accidents yet. the new stuff is Stainmaster Pet Protect and should not hold the smell. we are not allowed to use any chemicals on the new stuff, only hot water.

Old thread, spam reported…but that Rocco & Roxie stuff this article apparently touts (have not opened the link) really is da bomb. Best pet pee remover I’ve ever used! :eek:

(Find it on Amazon directly!)