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   Lataxe | Sep 29, 2008 09:29pm | #1

   B,

   Are you sure there's not a big tom moggy lurking in the back of your truck? :-)

   The evil smell of cat wee is due to the hormones and other weird things from a tomcat. Fettled-cat wee is just urine and doesn't stink.

   The tom mog stuff is largely water soluble, going by my previous experiences in washing it off garden furniture, me mam's shoes and various other moggy-targets over the years.

   Try giving your furniture a wipe with a wet rag, used only once per wipe before renewal (otherwise it spreads it rather than removing it). A water based parfum of some kind might also help. (Don't use oil-based parfum as oil may fix the cat hormones into the surface).

   Lataxe, a cat servant

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   joinerswork | Sep 30, 2008 01:41am | #2

   bstevens,

   Sure you're not cat stevens? ;-)

   There are enzyme based products available at pet shops, that are supposed to successfully remove and neutralise pet urine odors.  That, and sealing with shellac, may do the trick.  If you can find gum benzoin from a traditional finish supplier. or art supply store,, try dissolving some in the shellac.  It has a pleasant fragrance that might help with the cover-up.

   Ray

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   bstevens123 | Sep 30, 2008 05:10am | #3

   I tried the enzyme stuff and it was useless. I'll try the shellac and benzoin though. Thanks!

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   BG | Sep 30, 2008 10:25pm | #9

   bstevens,I have a friend that just went through this and he swears it worked using a product he bought off of the internet.He has three cats and they had soaked the perimeter of the living room. The urine had soaked down into the 3/4' ply and he did not want to replace the 4x8 sheets. He bought a product called Urine-Off from Biopro Research in Sarasota, FL. You might want to at least check them out.

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   oldusty | Sep 30, 2008 05:50am | #4

    Equal parts   Warm water and white vinegar with some lemon juice splashed in .

           Wipe it down and wipe it off or use a spray bottle and spray it on let it set then wipe it down . This will break it down  some kind of chemical reaction maybe .

             dusty

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   dkellernc | Sep 30, 2008 05:00pm | #5

   Depends on the substrate for the veneer.  If it's MDF, you will likely never get the smell out, as it's soaked into the sawdust & glue and is impossible to get to.  If it's quite an old piece of furniture and is veneered over a solid wood substrate, you might have a chance at it. 

   Ammonia will neutralize cat (and dog) urine odors by breaking down the proteins in it.  You need to be careful with this solution - if the piece is made with hide glue, ammonia will potentially dissolve it, and that'll definitely bubble the veneer.  If spraying household ammonia inside and out and immediately wiping it off doesn't do the trick, I've successfully used the ammonia-fuming procedure often used on Arts and Crafts furniture.  The basics are to construct a tent out of painter's plastic and some scrap wood, and place a pan of ammonium hydroxide under it.  Wait the appropriate period of time to fume the bare wood (or remove the cat odor), and then let the piece "air out" for a couple of days.

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   md2453 | Sep 30, 2008 05:15pm | #6

   Well likely not what you want to hear, but in my experience odor from cat urine will never go away, ever, regardless of what you use to wash it off.  We have a rental house and allowed one client to have a cat.  The woman moved out after several years and we were left with urine soaked hardwood floors and we tried everything and I mean everything to get the smell out.  We talked with veteranerians, pet store folks, even a chemist friend nothing, nada, zero

   We wound up pulling up the floors and re-installing new hardwood and do not allow any pets of any kind in our rental.  The old floor?  Hate to say it but it took a fast trip to the land fill!

   madison

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   dgreen | Sep 30, 2008 08:47pm | #7

   That has been my experience as well. I have found the only truly reliable method to be a cup of gasoline and a match. 

    

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   SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE SLINKIES...THEY ARE NOT REALLY GOOD FOR ANYTHING, BUT...THEY STILL BRING A SMILE TO YOUR FACE WHEN YOU PUSH THEM DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS

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   md2453 | Sep 30, 2008 09:22pm | #8

   Amen!  I like your tag line and it really is true isn't it?

   Madison

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   flyfisher111 | Oct 12, 2019 02:33pm | #10

   Cat urine odor can be removed with hydrogen peroxide. Bleach would also work, as they are both good oxidizers, but then you would have to deal with the odor and residue. The peroxide breaks down into water and oxygen. In order to completely remove the odor, the odor-producing chemicals must be broken down chemically.

   You will need concentration higher than the drugstore stuff, which is 3%. I use 30%, diluted, since I had a source, and keep a gallon on hand. Lower concentration, such as 10% will work fine.

   In the case of the amorie, it took about 15 light applications over a week. In the other, much, much worse case, my son purchased a townhouse and we wondered why there was such a strong perfume odor. Before move-in, we found one corner where the drywall had been soaked, several areas along the edges of the carpet, to the point that the tack strip underneath had rotted. We removed the carpet and drywall and founf the concrete slab contaminated. I diluted the 30% by half and sprayed it on the concrete, 4 applications over 2 hours did the trick - no odor at all. I stress that this was a really bad case - when we broke for lunch and came back, we could smell the pile of carpet at the curb a block away.

   Now, the cautions: gloves and eye protection, naturally. Keep it off your skin, as it will sting and the skin will turn white for a couple of hours, then return to normal - I don't worry about it much, but I must warn you. As mentioned, it breaks down into water and oxygen, so not much to worry about there after the surface is dry.

   Find it a chemical supply house, or you can get a gallon of 12% on Amazon for $39. Keep it in a cool, DARK place and it will last for years.