How Can I clear cat wee from room, and stop them peeing again? Urgent. It stinks.

[PavlovtheCat]

We cleaned our carpets this weekend, DH and I. With a hired carpet cleaner. We realised DD had pee'd one to many times on the front room floor, and thus cleaned all of them.

Since then I sprayed foam freshner to just give it a bit of something other than chemical smell. Then last night as DH put DD to bed he noticed her room smelled of pee. Odd he thought. She is potting trained, pretty much there, but we are not surprised if there is the odd accident. Deal with it in the morning he thought as DD was exhausted (was not on her bed so ok).

I went into her bedroom in the night and it was awful. It was clearly cat pee. As soon as I got up this morning I sprayed again with foam, and now it smells of freshner mixed with cat pee!!! I got down on my hands and knees to find it, and clearly located where it is.

I am furious. How can I get rid of it? Am I going to have to get a new carpet (it is old anyway), is there anything I can use? I had heard that soap and hot water can make it worse as it can react with the enzymes in the pee. Is this true?

Also, how can I stop the cats from peeing again, or elsewhere? They are fighting a lot right now, especially today, but have done for a while. I think this might be something to do with it, perhaps I took their smell away.

But I am worried I am going to just have a house that stinks of cat pee. Topped off with the fact that I currently have a sinus blockage means it must be really badly smelling if I can smell it.

HELP!!!

Do you have some kind of underlay? You may have to replace that to get rid of the smell. I know cats hate citrus smells so spraying lemon oil on the carpet should deter future peeing incidents.

I would definitely try to keep the cats out of her room until it's dealt with: Cats will pee where they can smell pee IYSWIM - even just a trace.

You can get specific cleaners for pets I think. But HF is right, you'll need to make sure the underlay is sorted too, and the floor boards if they are soaked.

There was a thread on here a few months ago about removing cat pee smells, either in pets or good housekeeping, do a search on cat pee or cat wee. It had some really good tips but I can't remember them all! I think bio washing powder (I have used that) and someone suggested vodka I think!!!

headfairy - oh dear thought that might be the case . Luckily its a relatively small room and very square so should be able to get an off cut....yes there is underlay....its all going to have to come up isn't it?

Oh well, I need to paint the skirting anyway, now is as good a time as any .

crunch - yes, door is shut firmly, window wide open. I had to boot both the cats out, as the other one was slinking around in there!

The one who we think pee'd in the first place, she is sort of loping around, and I am very concerned she is about to pee somewhere else .

Where can I get lemon oil from?

Vets used to say that you needed to use a solution of biological washing powder to break down the proteins, followed by surgical spirits to remove any fat products? Strong smelling things and bleach can encourage the cat to go back and wee over the top apparently

So, could that be why they pee'd in the first place? Not that they pee'd to start with, but used strong smelling cleaning products so encouraging them to pee there?

I shall try biological soap powder and lemon oil first, and take it up so I can do the underlay too.

Pets and children, great combination eh?

Thank you for tips so far. I can't find the other thread. I am useless at searching for threads. I will keep trying, and please keep posting in the meantime

It could be. Cats tend to like their environments to smell of them. So maybe all the cleanliness needed re-catifying.

Try this thread

Oh good thread thank you

neal's yard do lemon essential oil. I'd put a few drops with some water in a sprayer and spray it around the area. That should deter the cat. You can spray it anywhere you think she might try to pee as well.

i think you need to take your cat to the vet.ours started doing this and turns out he had an infection.so to stop it happening again id go to vet.

Bicarbonate of Soda with hot water poured on the area works a treat and neutralises the smell, I have no idea why though.

susie100, that works for kid sick too, but I know not why either..

The thing that I found worked best when our elderly cat started weeing indoors was white vinegar poured neat onto the stain.

Yes, the room does smell like a chippy for a few hours, but that smell clears and the cat wee smell is gone.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for great suggestions, and thanks Cheesesarnie - I might take her if she does it again...she has not done it before and it has coincided with us cleaning the carpet, so hopefully it is that, we shall see if it continues...

I have sprayed the area with biological soap powder solution. I have used three tablespoons of powder in a half litre spray bottle of hot water, is that enough powder? Or should it be stronger than this? I have just sprayed it, not rubbed it, should I scrub it in? How long will it take to neutralise the smell?

If this does not work, I shall do bicarb next as I have some in cupboard (works well on spilt milk) if not then vinegar next. DDs room will smell so clean by the end of this!!!

I sprayed with biological powder mix, did not work.

I have scrubbed the whole floor with strong water and biological powder mix.

It has not worked. Not a jot . It absolutely stinks. And the bloody horrid cat keeps trying to get in and on one occasion did, so I don't know if she pee'd again. I now can't tell if the one spot I thought it was, was indeed the right place, with the door open the whole corridor absolutely bloody stinks of cat pee.

I am so upset. I am off sick atm with headache/sinus problems. DD would not sleep, and finally went to sleep for 1 hour before waking up in a foul mood.

I just want to rip the bloody thing up. I feel like I smell of cat pee now.

Oh and the bloody wretched cat. She is OUT. Not coming in until this smell has gone.

We got milk into our carpet. DS threw up about two minutes after drinking so really nasty.

Biological washing powder was the only thing that worked on that smell.

Maretta - i have tried .

I will just have to wash the carpet again with it. OK, here goes.

The other thing is I seem to remember it took 24 hours to work. I didn't leave it soaking or anything but the next day it was so much better.

oh right, so it might just not have had time to soak up the enzymes?

Oh dear, DD might have to sleep in with us tonight. DH wont be happy as she does not sleep at all with us!

Jeyes Fluid (I got it fron a DIY shop, not sure where else stocks it) neutralises the ammonia in the pee.

Lots of cleaning products will just enhance the ammonia smell.

I promise the Jeyes works - we had ripped up the carpet, underlay, floorboards (!) and realised it was soaked into walls and floor joists... the jeyes fluid completely sorted it, thank god.

Thanks Big - I was worried that something like Jeyes would ruin carpet but to be honest, if it does not go away, the smell will ruin it anyway! I have pulled back the carpet and underlay and soaked both with the biological powder.

I shall give it until the morning and if not, will try Jeyes (my mum used to use this for everything I completely forgot about how useful it is!)

Seriously, white vinegar works - I use Sarsons. It kills the smell and the cats don't seem to like it either.