Getting cat pee out of the carpet?

[mainerocks]

Lily is still living in confinement so this is all old pee now. I treated religiously with Nature's miracle and would re-douse the spots daily until I couldn't sniff them out anymore.

Then a couple weeks ago I shampooed the carpets with a pet formula.

Now that it has been hot and/or humid, my house reeks of cat pee. UGH. I'm sooo frustrated. What else can I do? There are a lot of spots and it's hard to pinpoint exactly where now, but my house STINKS.

Would a professional carpet cleaner be able to solve this? I don't mind spending the money if the smell will just go away!

[kellbell191]

I ordered Got Pee online, doused the spots, then shampooed with the carpet shampooer and it is a LOT better. If you sit on the carpet you can kind of smell it, but otherwise not so much.

[kellbell191]

BTW the got pee is pricey but you dilute it, so it winds up being cheaper than natures miracle.

[calico]

Do you have a blacklight? If not, buy or borrow one. It sounds like you might have missed an area. I don't think a pro will do any better of a job than you can do yourself, but that's my opinion.

[mainerocks]

I bought a black light. It never worked very well when the pee spots were new (but dry) and now it really shows nothing.

I actually tried 3 different versions of black light too!

UGH!!!!!!!!!

[mainerocks]

May 30, 2012 11:46:39 GMT -5 kellbell191 said:

I ordered Got Pee online, doused the spots, then shampooed with the carpet shampooer and it is a LOT better. If you sit on the carpet you can kind of smell it, but otherwise not so much.

Did you use anything special for carpet shampoo?

[mainerocks]

OK, sounds like I need to order some Got Pee. Fingers crossed it works!

[calico]

May 30, 2012 15:08:22 GMT -5 mainerocks said:

I bought a black light. It never worked very well when the pee spots were new (but dry) and now it really shows nothing.

I actually tried 3 different versions of black light too!

UGH!!!!!!!!!

I found out the hard way that there are several keys to getting the black light to show the "nasties". A) It has to be completely dark. Really DARK. B) You've got to get that sucker up close to the carpet

If you still can't find anything, I bet that the funk is coming from the carpet padding underneath. Often, the "circle-o-pee" spreads through the padding and covers a much larger area than the affected carpet. I hate to say this, but you might need to pull up the carpet.

[mainerocks]

Jun 1, 2012 10:04:22 GMT -5 calico said:

May 30, 2012 15:08:22 GMT -5 mainerocks said:

I bought a black light. It never worked very well when the pee spots were new (but dry) and now it really shows nothing.

I actually tried 3 different versions of black light too!

UGH!!!!!!!!!

I found out the hard way that there are several keys to getting the black light to show the "nasties". A) It has to be completely dark. Really DARK. B) You've got to get that sucker up close to the carpet

If you still can't find anything, I bet that the funk is coming from the carpet padding underneath. Often, the "circle-o-pee" spreads through the padding and covers a much larger area than the affected carpet. I hate to say this, but you might need to pull up the carpet.

It was pitch black and I was on my hands and knees. Still didn't really work. Maybe the cream colored carpet is the issue?

At some point I'll have spent so much on cleaning the carpet I might as well have pulled it up! :-P Seriously though, it's in a lot of rooms so that would cost me an arm and a leg. I hope it doesn't come to that. Ugh!! Lily is lucky that I love her so much!

[calico]

Weird. I dunno. We have beige carpet and I was able to see pee spots. They were very light and didn't glow like the brochure that came with the light said they would, but there was enough of a color that I could get a general idea of where to spread the enzymes.