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So...this shirt my kid has on....it says "It's dead...whatever it was." Her Uncle Steven got it for her 
It made a nice shirt for her to wear today to "help" me paint the mailbox post. She put the "skirt" on later 
Kid has her own ideas about fashion...and I say: rock on Liv!
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It made a nice shirt for her to wear today to "help" me paint the mailbox post. She put the "skirt" on later Kid has her own ideas about fashion...and I say: rock on Liv!http://www.flickr.com/photos/87267225@N00/6844779716/ http://www.flickr.com/people/87267225@N00/
Anyone with magic cures to remove cat urine from couch cushions?
(don't ask - I like animals, but am allergic to cats, so this is not a good saturday night
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(don't ask - I like animals, but am allergic to cats, so this is not a good saturday night
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I think we used something called "Urine be gone", got it from the pet store.
cats!
cats!Anyone with magic cures to remove cat urine from couch cushions?
(don't ask - I like animals, but am allergic to cats, so this is not a good saturday night
Anyone with magic cures to remove cat urine from couch cushions?
(don't ask - I like animals, but am allergic to cats, so this is not a good saturday night
Are they they kind you can unzip and remove the foam block? If so, do you have access to one of the old roller-dryers?
I think we used something called "Urine be gone", got it from the pet store.
That will work on the cloth, so it will be fine as long as there wasn't time for it to soak into the cushions themselves. It's actually an enzyme that "eats" the urine, but once the urine has soaked into the padding you have to saturate the whole cushion to compleatly eradicate it--very expensive.
The covers come off, no problem cleaning them, we use kids and pets (get it at walmart, I use it for wetsuit cleaning).
Might try a regular laundromat, the big front-loader machine, use kids and pets like for the covers?
Might try a regular laundromat, the big front-loader machine, use kids and pets like for the covers?
Anyone with magic cures to remove cat urine from couch cushions?
(don't ask - I like animals, but am allergic to cats, so this is not a good saturday night
Hydrogen Peroxide works well. If you can, saturate it and let it sit for awhile.
That would be fine--and there's a little bottle of Lysol for use in laundry that my wife swears is the only way to compleatly remove cat urine in a washing machine (she can smell cat urine where it doesn't even exist), but she's never used the kids and pets so it should probably work.
The big thing is the foam. If it's gotten into the foam you'll never get it out with the covers on. Since you can get the foam out, just soak it really good in water and wring it out as well as you can. You may have to do this a couple/few times, but if you can't smell it anymore when it's dry you should be okay. If you can't smell it in the foam now you probably still want to do the soak and wring thing. The urine can't actually absorb into the foam, but it can seep into every little open cell in it and the odor will be very persistent on warmer days--pit can also transfer the odor to anything that rests on it for a while even if you can't smell it in the cushion itself. That, and the fact that the relatively high amount of ammonia in cat urine will break down latex very quickly and drastically reduce the life of polyurethane...
Had the same issues in Oct and again in December - the second time we used Nature's Miracle - it's an enzamatic thing. Removed the cover and washes it with an extra rinse cycle (on delicate) in cold.
The cushion itself I saturated. (It's 10 inches deep - I hit both sides) let sit, and then grabbed a ton of towels and took it outside and stood on it, stepping around to absorb as much of the liquid as I could. Then I set did it again. The stuff is not cheap - I killed a 32 bottle in no time.
Then I sprayed the cushion every other day for over a week(to allow to dry in between) (sprayer - adjustable mist trigger sprayer from the dollar store) with more Natures Miracle and would do the blotting thing and let the sun and outdoors take care of it. Dh laughed that I would set a reminder to bring in the cushion. I didn't wash it out. My vet says he's had good luck with it. (no, he doesn't sell it)
After we put the cushion back on the couch, every evening before I went to bed, I'd spray lightly with "Boundary" - cats aren't suppose to like it. I did that for more than a month.
Ours was a result of a UTI, but since I don't know if I can trust the cat, every night before I go to bed, or during the day when I'm gone, I lay a huge piece of aluminum foil down (same piece, I just tuck it under the couch when not in use) He doesn't like the feel or sound.
The cushion itself I saturated. (It's 10 inches deep - I hit both sides) let sit, and then grabbed a ton of towels and took it outside and stood on it, stepping around to absorb as much of the liquid as I could. Then I set did it again. The stuff is not cheap - I killed a 32 bottle in no time.
Then I sprayed the cushion every other day for over a week(to allow to dry in between) (sprayer - adjustable mist trigger sprayer from the dollar store) with more Natures Miracle and would do the blotting thing and let the sun and outdoors take care of it. Dh laughed that I would set a reminder to bring in the cushion. I didn't wash it out. My vet says he's had good luck with it. (no, he doesn't sell it)
After we put the cushion back on the couch, every evening before I went to bed, I'd spray lightly with "Boundary" - cats aren't suppose to like it. I did that for more than a month.
Ours was a result of a UTI, but since I don't know if I can trust the cat, every night before I go to bed, or during the day when I'm gone, I lay a huge piece of aluminum foil down (same piece, I just tuck it under the couch when not in use) He doesn't like the feel or sound.
I love each and every one of my cats. I've saved them all from the streets and bottle fed some of them as tiny babies, but my goodness they are destructive and nasty things. I will NEVER EVER EVER have this many cats again. I currently have two living outside (they're awesome, but the male will spray anything he sees fit to spray, and yes he's fixed) and 5 inside. We have one Litter Robot and two regular litter boxes and I HATE HATE HATE gritty kitty and it's dust. 
I want to save them all, but it's cost us dearly in many ways.
I want to save them all, but it's cost us dearly in many ways.
We've spent over $500 on the ONE cat in the past year...3 UTI's this last time the Dr change the meds and doubled the time...the next step would be an ultra sound (only 3 in the tri-state area - run about $400) or exploratory surgery (also $400) to see if there is a problem with his urethra. At least the surgery, if he found something, he'd fix it right then.
Einstein and his brother Pavlov are both now on $38/8lb bag of cat food. And have been since the 2nd UTI.
As I quipped to the Vet and his assistant - who says there is such a thing as a free cat!
The Vet responded - and that's why I was willing to give you such a discount on having them both neutered and declawed! I knew you were serious about keeping these guys in a life they could become accustom to! lol
Einstein and his brother Pavlov are both now on $38/8lb bag of cat food. And have been since the 2nd UTI.
As I quipped to the Vet and his assistant - who says there is such a thing as a free cat!
The Vet responded - and that's why I was willing to give you such a discount on having them both neutered and declawed! I knew you were serious about keeping these guys in a life they could become accustom to! lol
PS: He did give me an awesome deal too. Half of the 3 others I called. And we were not patients before. These were our first pets other than fish in 9 years, since #3 was a year old. I swore I'd have nothing else that pooped or ate living under my roof.
When I posted that we'd adopted them, my brother responded - Which kid did you get rid of?
When I posted that we'd adopted them, my brother responded - Which kid did you get rid of?
That's the thing. So much of that is so expensive and for us, none it worked for long. After reading forever, I kept coming across Hydrogen Peroxide and although I didn't have much faith in it working, I figured it didn't hurt to try. It worked very well. The smell seems to be completely gone. I did let it sit longer than people said was needed but if it ever happens again (please...no) that will be the first thing I use.
Chlle - wait until Little Miss is old enough! The boys rotate through cat litter duty. One does food for the week. One does water (upstairs and down) and one does the litter boxes every day, with a full dump on Sundays (garbage night)
SkyD - I will definitely remember that! May have to ask DH how that will work on foam cushions. He use to work for a company who made the the chemicals that make foam cushions. (He's a Chem E)
It was carpet for us and I think I remember reading about cushions as well but I am not positive. I know they always said check for color fastness but frankly that was the least of the worries. If it didn't work, the carpet was coming up as nothing else had worked.
This one was purely our whoops. The cat's litterbox is in an upstairs bathroom. The door was shut yesterday evening, and we were out, or outside, most of today. The cat had actually tried to get to its backup basement litterbox, dw called it back upstairs and shut that door. The cat had food, water, free run of the house, but no access to its litterboxes. D'oh!
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