Enzyme remover

rinadaventry · Sep 8, 2005

Anyone know of a good and fairly inexpensive enzyme cleaner?

I've been posting about toilet training my cats, especially London, my kitty who pees on the spare bed. Well, I turned the mattress up and ever since I've had no problem with him peeing inappropriatly. I can only assume that something about the mattress's scent or perhaps past accidents by the many children that slept on it incited the behavior?

I've heard Urinegone is good, but getting it off amazing is going to cost almost 30 dollars with shipping! Walmart and Target didn't have anything except a Woolite cleaner that I thought smelled bad.

danalee2682 · Sep 8, 2005

I've tried both Nature's Miracle and Anti-Icky-Poo. The Nature's Miracle is easy to find (any Petsmart), but I personally think that the Anti-Icky-Poo works better at both eliminating the odor and removing the stain (purchased from a smaller pet store). I don't remember how much I paid for the Nature's Miracle, but the last time I bought AIP it was $15 for a 32 oz. spray bottle.

Good Luck!

kai bengals · Sep 9, 2005

I know there is somebody on EBAY that is selling a do it yourself receipe that is guaranteed to work. I haven't tried it.
Nature's miracle works ok, but it seems to take repeated applications and quite some time before the smell is completely gone. ( I think a cat can probably still smell it, even though we can't )
Thankfully, we haven't had any mattress incidents. I can imagine that will be tough to clean up.

blueberrybeth · Sep 9, 2005

Originally Posted by Kai Bengals

I know there is somebody on EBAY that is selling a do it yourself receipe that is guaranteed to work. I haven't tried it.
Nature's miracle works ok, but it seems to take repeated applications and quite some time before the smell is completely gone. ( I think a cat can probably still smell it, even though we can't )
Thankfully, we haven't had any mattress incidents. I can imagine that will be tough to clean up.

If you can't seem to get the smell out and you are worried about continual peeing on the mattress (which you said is under control - great!). I just kind of gave up and bought a vinyl mattress cover from some online store(and I used my carpet/steam cleaner on mattress itself). The cover was pretty cheap, got here in no time. It effectively encased the mattress and if Cricket decided to pee on it again I could just take the sheets off, wipe it down, and continue on. After months of peeing on this futon, I had had it!

Also, if you use any type of enzyme cleaner, it takes a little bit to work, and you might have to pretty well saturate that spot on the mattress with it.

Cricket not longer pees on the futon, and you can't tell he ever did. He FINALLY got the message!

rinadaventry · Sep 9, 2005

Thanks- the bed actually has a plastic mattress cover on it now, so he only got to it once or twice where it got on the mattress....but I don't have a washer/dryer in my condo, so if he pees on the sheets its really a problem since I have to take it to the cleaners and pay to have it washed (I have NO time to sit at a laundromat, I have the Fluff N Fold!). It's just a lot of time for it...I'm hoping though that once he really understands the whole toilet bit that he'll have no desire to pee on the bed! Thanks for the tips on the enzyme cleaner...I think I might wait till Urinegone comes to the As Seen On TV Store (sometime middle of this month) and try it out.

sammie5 · Sep 9, 2005

I know that other people on this site have recommended Nok Out

I had an issue with a chair, once the cat had peed on it, he would go back every few days to refresh the spot. I did repeated steam cleaning, with a pet odour neutralizer in the shampoo, (It was a Bissell product) and then did follow up spray with Nature's Miracle. It took a weekend, with a lot of work, but has been effective. But that was just for the cushion for one chair. I imagine that a mattress would need a lot more work. (It would be harder to saturate the mattress, which is necessary, and take a lot longer to dry.)

kattcom999 · Sep 10, 2005

One of my female cats would frequent the entry way in my apartment. It a long story but a neighbor across the hall has unfixed males that spray, we had a flood, their sprayed clothing and bedding on floor in storage area outside of my apartment door. Well the water soaked the clothes and linen they left in there and the water proceeded in under my front door. I guess she decided to mark the area with her sent or something so I had the place send the carpet cleaners to get rid of the male cat smell...it didn't work. It got to the point when I couldn't stand it anymore, the stench as well as her peeing. I read somewhere that Shout (stain remover works) and I sprayed it there. After about a week or so of treatment I no longer could smell the male cats scent and it also cured my female...no more puddles to clean from the carpet. I'm now in the process of doing the same to the hall outside my door seeing that the owners of this place won't have the cleaners back.

lndscpsam · Sep 12, 2005

Originally Posted by kattcom999

One of my female cats would frequent the entry way in my apartment. It a long story but a neighbor across the hall has unfixed males that spray, we had a flood, their sprayed clothing and bedding on floor in storage area outside of my apartment door. Well the water soaked the clothes and linen they left in there and the water proceeded in under my front door. I guess she decided to mark the area with her sent or something so I had the place send the carpet cleaners to get rid of the male cat smell...it didn't work. It got to the point when I couldn't stand it anymore, the stench as well as her peeing. I read somewhere that Shout (stain remover works) and I sprayed it there. After about a week or so of treatment I no longer could smell the male cats scent and it also cured my female...no more puddles to clean from the carpet. I'm now in the process of doing the same to the hall outside my door seeing that the owners of this place won't have the cleaners back.

How did you treat it with the Shout? Did you use the gel version and just scrub it in?

lovemycodygirl · Sep 12, 2005

I tried everything to get the smell out from the carpet from Nature's Miracle to Nok out (which took the color out of my carpet) and what worked best was plain ol' water and vinegar. I also poured some Listerine over the spot, as I heard that works well as a disinfectant too. We never had a problem with her going in that spot again.

Now going on plastic garbage bags in another problem!! She did it this weekend in the basement...UGH!

rinadaventry · Sep 12, 2005

I've used vinegar succesfully before, but I'm very wary to put it on a mattress for fear that whenever I sleep I'll wake up smelling like a salad. I bought something made by Hartz today that's supposed to "repel" cats from returning to the same place to pee...I'll post how it works.

jennyr · Sep 12, 2005

The problem with just saturating is that some of the original substance will always be left. After repeated scrubbings in situ I found the only way to stop Ellie peeing on the hall carpet was to take it up and soak it in a bath of Ariel Oxi Active solution, made pretty strong. I left it 24 hours, changed the water and then scrubbed as much as I could of it with Ariel powder (it is a 10x10 carpet). Several rinses later the smell had gone and the water ran clear. Ariel is not recommended for wool, but it worked and the carpet, now dry from hanging over the balcony for three days, is fine, and she has not peed on it. It took me a whole weekend though! (Oh and Ellie was treated for a UTI too)

rinadaventry · Sep 13, 2005

The Hartz stuff seems to be working great- I actually haven't used it on any places they've peed on because all have been washable surfaces and therefore were taken out of the room they tend to pee in (should I count my blessings that they only pee inappropriatly in one room?) However, I have another post about scratching at the door, so last night I sprayed the edge of the door with Hartz spray...and either I slept REALLY well or there was no scratching. I did before going to bed hear a little pawing, but it sounded like whichever cat was trying hard not to really touch the door. I also went ahead and sprayed it on all the places I thought they were likely to pee.

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