URINE ODOR REMOVAL-please help!

I have a bad case of urine odor in my carpet. I've tried shampooing with a rental steam vac, blotting with towels, applying two different kinds of commercial odor removers as recommended by pet shop owners covering with wet towels and turning the heat up to 85 F for 24 hours.Nothing!! Now I'm using Nature's Miracle.I've applied it to the areas that smell and covered them with wet towels.What should I do now?Scrub the spots or just leave them alone? Should I blot them up right away or keep applying the product and let it dry? If it's going to work, does it take the smell out right away? Thanks to anyone and everyone who will help me out. Please post reply or send e-mail. AJ

Several satisfied cat owners have spoken about Nature's Miracle. The key to it working is to follow the instructions exactly, making sure you are treating the ENTIRE stain (may require the use of a fluorescent black light to make sure you're getting every bit of it). Very stubborn odors can require multiple treatments.

Good luck.

I am waiting on my sample of a product called ZeoCrystal. I have heard others swear by it. We have 18 cats and a definate problem with odor.

If you are interested, ZeoCrystal has their own website.

<http://www.zeocrystal.com>

I've tried Nature's Miracle too, among other things. I've shampooed the heck out of the area too. Recently, I had a lot more success with something I bought at Petsmart. It's called Crazy Cat: Pheremone Magic Stain & Odor Remover. If I remember correctly, I shampooed the area really well with some of the other 'removers' I have. Then I saturated the area with this stuff. Then, I poured water on top of that to help saturate it even better. Then, I took an old towel & soaked it with water & put it over the spot like the directions said. I didn't turn up the heat or anything, but I did shut the door (it was the bathroom). Later, I came back & noticed that there was a yellow spot on the towel. I didn't remember there being a spot on that towel. Later, I returned, & there was more of this yellow on other parts of the towel. It was actually soaking up the color. I have shampooed this area so many times it's not funny. I was pretty positive that the stain was pretty set in by now, but apparently not. I'm going to do the area again soon, cause I'm on vacation. I definitely recommend the stuff, if you can find it. The bottle is white, but with a really colorful stickered bottle (magenta, yellow, & blue). Good luck!!

I never had any luck with the various washing/soaking enzimes and other methods. No matter what, the cats always went back to that area, and even I could smell it. Recently I discoved that the cats will not return to an area that has been very well dusted with the pet carpet fresh. It must either cover the urine smell, or smells bad to the cats. Either way, I don't care because they don't use that area afterwards, and it smells better to me. With the first application, I don't vacuum it - I just rub it in and leave it for a couple of days and then reaply as needed.

Good luck,

Cheryl Walter

The problem in getting cat odor out of carpets is it usually has soaked into the carpet pad, and no amount of shampooing or blotting is going to be able to address that. If this is the case, you will have to replace the carpet pad, and probably the carpet too.

(This happened to me!)