Please help...I'm at the end of my rope.
I have 2 male neutered cats. They were both neutered at a young age and now they're both about 5 years old.
One cat, Frances, has always urinated standing up. So I've had to get big plastic tubs to use as litter boxes. Sometimes he's gotten a little on the wall behind the boxes. Anyway, so I moved the boxes to the top of the stairs that go down to my basement. That wall got sprayed a little too. I had work done in the basement and moved boxes to my computer room-so a little spray there. Now they're down in the basement and fine. So, each of the rooms that held the litter boxes got sprayed...not daily, just every once in a while.
Upstairs, I discovered that Frances was "marking his territory" in an unused spare bedroom and had the rip the carpet out today. I washed the baseboards and floorboards down with ammonia but the smell is overpowering. There's one spot in my bedroom that got sprayed once...carpet there...and I catch a whiff from time to time, even though I cleaned it.
The cats don't have UTIs. They are not spraying everywhere. I'm just saying that over the course of a couple of years, some urine has splashed outside of the boxes in the different places they were stationed...does that make sense?
I'm getting married this fall and my fiance is moving things in. He's noticed a progressively "stronger" cat smell and I have too. I think it's moving the litter boxes all around downstairs in the past couple of months. I've cleaned the areas with vinegar, with heavy duty cleaners, with ammonia, etc. HOW can I get rid of old cat urine??? I'm going to have a house full of new in-laws in 8 weeks and just would be so embarrassed with the smell. I feel overwhelmed with it now...just like keeping things clean and totally hate that smell. Any ideas would be much appreciated. The hardest part is that I don't even know exactly where the smell is coming from. I've cleaned the areas where the litter boxes were and it doesn't seem to help.
THANKS!!!
I have 2 male neutered cats. They were both neutered at a young age and now they're both about 5 years old.
One cat, Frances, has always urinated standing up. So I've had to get big plastic tubs to use as litter boxes. Sometimes he's gotten a little on the wall behind the boxes. Anyway, so I moved the boxes to the top of the stairs that go down to my basement. That wall got sprayed a little too. I had work done in the basement and moved boxes to my computer room-so a little spray there. Now they're down in the basement and fine. So, each of the rooms that held the litter boxes got sprayed...not daily, just every once in a while.
Upstairs, I discovered that Frances was "marking his territory" in an unused spare bedroom and had the rip the carpet out today. I washed the baseboards and floorboards down with ammonia but the smell is overpowering. There's one spot in my bedroom that got sprayed once...carpet there...and I catch a whiff from time to time, even though I cleaned it.
The cats don't have UTIs. They are not spraying everywhere. I'm just saying that over the course of a couple of years, some urine has splashed outside of the boxes in the different places they were stationed...does that make sense?
I'm getting married this fall and my fiance is moving things in. He's noticed a progressively "stronger" cat smell and I have too. I think it's moving the litter boxes all around downstairs in the past couple of months. I've cleaned the areas with vinegar, with heavy duty cleaners, with ammonia, etc. HOW can I get rid of old cat urine??? I'm going to have a house full of new in-laws in 8 weeks and just would be so embarrassed with the smell. I feel overwhelmed with it now...just like keeping things clean and totally hate that smell. Any ideas would be much appreciated. The hardest part is that I don't even know exactly where the smell is coming from. I've cleaned the areas where the litter boxes were and it doesn't seem to help.
THANKS!!!