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So my wife and I paid to have two large rooms and a stairway carpeted. - 3 months ago. This carpeting is brand new. I'm mad.

We have two cats, and one of them urinates on the carpet. I am infuriated.

My house smells like cat urine.

We brought a professional cleaner in and it didn't work out too well. - He put some sort of enzyme down that apparently didn't work because my sister came over last week and she said that the smell is apparent.


We love our cats too much to simply get rid of them.

At this point, I am ready to rip the brand new carpet out and pay somebody to redo our hardwood floors. - Which would really make me mad considering the carpet is 3 months old.

Somebody, please, pretty please, tell me that there is a miracle remedy so that my carpeting can get cleaned and ridded of this urine stench. A formula of some sort? A solution that works? A homemade potion?

Anything?

How many spots are there, and you say you have cats, as in plural - what sexes are they?

Also, please don't say you had Stanley Steamer come in - as the "professional" - you didn't, did you?

Get a dog, ditch the cats.

I hate cats.


I know we had cleaner specifically for carpet and pet odors when they urinate/deficate. You just have to clean it up as soon as you know it happens. As far as old smells, maybe someone else has a solution. I really don't know.

I can help you out - you just have to let me know how many spots there are, have you seen the cat doing it, or did it soak in because you didn't know about it?

You've had the carpet cleaned professionally - by who? What did they do?

Never had any luck getting them to stop, but I have had success getting out the smell. Kirby makes an enzymatic pet stain remover that does a pretty good job. It's expensive, but you don't need much, so a bottle lasts a while. It will also make it smell worse for a while, I guess that's how it works. But it will make it go away.

Two cats Arch. - Both male that were "fixed" before we adopted them.

I thought there was only one stain, but when the pro came in to clean, he ran a blacklight over our living room carpet and detected 5 stains in that room alone. - I'm certain there are newer stains, I can't see them though.

If you know where the stains are - you can TRY (this is home remedy number 1) a solution of white vinegar and water - WHITE vinegar, that is. 2 tbs vinegar to 1 qt. of water. Here's where it gets tricky.

Since you probably didn't catch it when it happened, the urine soaked through the carpet - into the pad. A professional cleaner should've know this, but.......cleaning the carpet will - WILL get rid of the odor from the carpet. However, the bacteria that causes the odor would have already soaked down into the pad. Carpet cleaners don't clean pad. Period.

The odor, if it was cleaned properly - is coming from the pad. (remember, pad is a sponge - it soaks up liquid like a sponge does). If the cleaner guy treated the carpet only - he didn't do his job properly.

dogs>cats

interesting.. i will have to remember that when one day i have a dog...

We use a product called PetZyme that seems to work pretty effectively.

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I won't go into what should've been done, since it obviously wasn't.

However, you can use the white vinegar solution - saturate the carpet, thereby letting it soak into the pad as well. If you do that, you will want to have at least a wet vac - and you'll want to let the white vinegar solution sit for maybe 5 minutes. Then you'll have to extract as much as you can.

Pro cleaners have special tools for this.

After you let it sit for 5 minutes or so, extract all the dampness you can. Put the shop vac/wet vac on the spot and hold it down for a few minutes - 2 or 3.

OR, go to a vet or pet store and buy a bio-enzymatic odor eliminator / or decontaminant.

If you go this route, you can use a syringe to inject the pad in all the affected areas.

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Nature's Miracle works great too.

Remember - if you had the carpet cleaned and it still smells, provided the carpet was cleaned correctly - the smell is coming from the pad, not the carpet.

Regardless of which route you take, you need to get the pad taken care of - assuming the carpet was treated properly.

Worst case scenario is you pull the carpet up (ideally the urine spots would be in a corner of the room - or at least close together) - but you, or a carpet guy, pulls the carpet up, cuts out the pad that smells (and you'll see the stains on the pad), replace the pad with new, then re lay and stretch the carpet.

This part sounds complicated, but trust me, it's easier than the vinegar solution, and works better as well.

The bio enzymatic process is good, but you need to make sure the product comes in contact with the spots of urine - and when a liquid hits carpet padding - it spreads out about 3 times as wide as the spot on the carpet.

Now - you need to find out why the cat is peeing on the carpet, because unless that stops - .......well, there's no sense fixing the existing odor if the cat is only going to do it again.

You have any questions, pm me. I happen to know about this stuff. (yikes!!!!)

Try zero odor I think it can only be ordered online.

As for getting them to stop have you taken them to the vet? I've heard of male cats who were fixed but had an undescended testicle left behind which caused them to mark like an entact male. There are also other physical issues that can cause cats to urinate outside the litter box so it's always good to rule those out.

Also how many litter boxes do you have? It's usually best to have one box per cat when possible.

The products others have listed/named would probably do the trick - just remember: the odor from urine comes from a bacteria. To get rid of the odor, the bio - enzymatic products introduce something that kills the odor causing bacteria - IF, IF it comes in contact with the bacteria.

Look at it like this. If your left arm is bleeding, and you put a bandage on your right arm - well, you did the right thing, just in the wrong spot - and you'll still be bleeding.
Same goes for any and all of the solutions on here. If your problem comes from an area and you treat the area beside it - you've accomplished nothing.

As to what you said about 1 box per cat: Male cats do not like to use the same litter box as females - more often than not - although not every time - they will start having "accidents" - (which I call "intentionals", since they don't like using the same litter as a female)

Male and male, though - I haven't heard of that being a problem. Or, an ongoing problem, put it that way. Could be in this situation, though.

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At this point, I am ready to rip the brand new carpet out and pay somebody to redo our hardwood floors. - Which would really make me mad considering the carpet is 3 months old.

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Bite the bullet and redo the floors. I married an animal lover, and as soon as we bought our house we ripped up all the carpeting, redid the hardwood floors or put ceramic tile in every room throughout the house. Area rugs and runners are easy to clean and nothing soaks through to the padding. We get lots of compliments on the wood and tile, and they still look great after 15+years.

That cat is not going to stop urinating on your carpet, so don't get your hopes up.

I can get rid of that smell for ya......or atleast rid of the source....

I can make him wish that's all he smelled

I have two male cats and had this problem until I got two boxes.

How far away are your stairs from the litterbox? My cat decided a few weeks ago that she didn't want to walk all the way to the basement to pee anymore, so she was peeing in our bedroom and in our loft. Sometimes right in front of us. We placed a box upstairs and no more incidents.

You need to have one box for each cat, at least.

If the cat is going in different spots outside the box, he might have a UTI so you might want to have him checked. If it's the same spot, and cleaning it doesn't work, try putting something on top of it to cover the smell (even temporarily) and see if that resolves the issue.