Whats the best homemade solution for cat urine?

Question

My cat keeps peein everywhere and the smell is hurendus!! Does anyone know a way to take away the smell?

Answer 1

Kill the cat

Answer 2

When a cat inappropriately urinates on rugs, carpets or furnishings it can leave a very unpleasant distinctive cat smell that is hard to get rid of. This urine odor also stimulates the cat to urinate in that area again thus perpetuating the problem. Once you remove the odor permanently the cat will no longer keep going back to the same area. Here is what works best....

Ingredients:
Baking Soda
White Vinegar
Dishwashing Detergent
3 % Hydrogen Peroxide


Directions:

1. If the carpet is newly soiled, first absorb as much of the cat urine as possible using paper towels or an old towel. Place towels over the cat urine patch and tread on them so as to absorb as much wetness as possible. Repeat with dry towels until no more moisture can be absorbed.

If the cat urine has dried and you are not sure where the soiled area is you can use a black light to detect it. In a darkened room the black light will pick up cat urine and other stains. Hand held black lights can be purchased for between $15 to $25

2. Next, wet the area with a solution of 50% white vinegar and 50% water. Make sure you use enough of the solution to penetrate the fibres deep down. Allow it to dry. You can assist drying by blotting with paper towels as described above. A fan can also be used to assist drying. The acidity of the vinegar will neutralize the ammonia in the cat urine.

3. When it's dry, apply a liberal amount of baking soda over the affected area and drizzle it with a quarter of a cup of hydrogen peroxide mixed with a teaspoon of dishwashing detergent. Work it in with a scrubbing brush or your fingers (be sure to wear rubber gloves) to dissolve the baking soda and work it down into the carpet. Allow it to dry. Then vacuum. Please Read the caution below regarding hydrogen peroxide

The vinegar will neutralize the ammonia and the baking powder will remove the odor of the cat urine.

Important. Never use ammonia or ammonia-based products on the carpet. The smell may attract the cat to that area and will encourage cats to urinate there.

You may have to repeat the above process a few times for heavily soiled areas.

Caution, you should test your carpet for color fastness in an inconspicuous area for 24 hours.
Use only 3% Hydrogen Peroxide

Although it will not work as effectively you can replace the hydrogen peroxide with water if you are not sure about the color fastness of your carpet.

Answer 3

The best solution I have ever used is straight vinegar. If the pee has been absorbed into stuff like wood, then the smell will never completely go away.
If it's in a carpet, cover the area with baking soda and work it in with your hands (use rubber gloves so the smell doesn't get on you) and let that set for about half an hour. If the soda looks lumpy and wet, add more and work it in. Then pour vinegar over the spot. The chemical reaction will push a lot of the pee to the surface of the carpet with the bubbles. Absorb the wetness the best you can with old towels. If the pee has already set, it will have a funky smell forever, but this method helps reduce a lot of the odor.

Answer 4

You should try buying Nature's Miracle. It has enzymes that eat away at the urine crystals which gets rid of the odor. Found at pet stores. It's safe to use around pets and children. They have a solution specifically for cat urine.

Answer 5

Cat urine have five main components in it, urine, sticky mucous, pheremones, uric acid, and proteins. Household cleaning methods like vinegar really does nothing to remove cat urine. If enough people believe something to be true, than it becomes true. The only stuff that has been proven to work is products that contain special types of bacteria that target the five components in urine. Dumb Cat available at Petco.com and Drsfostersmith.com works. You homeopathic folks need to get off your I know everything grandstand and do your homework. Ammonia, vinegar and products like Nature's Miracle that contain blood enzymes and it will never work, or ever has worked on urine in its thirty year history. Nothing in the pantry will get rid of cat urine. You can thank god for this fact.

Answer 6

Yes vinegar is a good one, but my sister was told this one the other day as she was house sitting, (also looking after an indoor cat), don't know if you are in UK, but dissolve 1 DAZ tablet (or similar detergent tablet) in hot water with some vanilla essence, she said it worked well and smelt better than vinegar! Worth a try perhaps but test a small area first if the smell is in your carpet!!

Answer 7

major b had it right EXCEPT the get rid of the cat part. You may want to make it up with mild vinegar and water and test a small area before you actually go spraying everything down with it. Allow it to sit for a minute and then blot up. The vinegar helps with odor and helps cats from going back to that same spot. If the area can be blocked off with something to allow it dry and apply another heavy dose for vinegar and water before the cat tries to assault the same area. Hope this helps.

Answer 8

sprinkle about 1/2 cup of baking soda to 2 cups of litter it should do the trick if that doesn't work you can go out a get Tidy Cats multi-cat litter box deodorizer and it works wonders if you only have one cat.......oh and another thing if it's on the carpet...put the baking soda litter mixture on the wet carpet let it sit for a while...and vaccuum it up...i forgot what i was trying to do in the first place...it sounds like your cat needs litter trained...if it is a kitten between 4weeks and a yr. old.....to litter train a cat.....just let your cat drink some water....and put him/her in the litter box...and it's a long process but it works..your cat is going to try to get out pick him/her up and put him/her back in the box and keep doing this until it goes to the bathroom and let it go after that and then when you see your cat drink more water do the same thing again. it works

Answer 9

Vinegar. But there's a product called odo-ban that works great on cat urine. I use it. I have over a dozen pets, mostly stray cats I've taken in. Always test fabric first. Always water down the solution a bit. Wipe/pat surface. Also, clorox on non-fabrics and whites.

Answer 10

Your cat could have a urinary tract infection. Why not check that out?

In the mean time, get "Nature's Miracle" to put on pee spots, a black light will reveal where the spots are.

Sorry to say this, you may have to rip up the carpet and paint the subflooring and redo it.

Seriously- your cat is either is not neutered or it has a raging urinary tract/ kidney infection.

Answer 11

One block of Ariel Automatic in water, make sure its the boilogical sort, its got enzymes that break down urine stains and smells, and your house wont smell like a chip shop!