Getting cat pee off horse rugs?

[spaceagevalkyrie]

Anyone know how on earth you get the cat pee smell off winter blankets?

[JoZ]

Assuming they can be washed, include Nature's Miracle in the wash water. If you know where the pee spot is (as opposed to the whole blanket having that awful smell), pre-spray the spot with the Nature's Miracle. The stuff really does work.

I actually don't buy Nature's Miracle itself, though I can't for the life of me think of what I do buy. If you go to PetSmart and find the NM, there will be several other brands IN THE SAME SECTION. If you buy from that section, they are all comparable. The one I buy is considerably cheaper, red and white label.

[FatCatFarm]

Nature's Miracle, Simple Solution, Out, any enzyme cleaner should do it. May need to rinse and repeat so to speak but they work great and usually leave a pleasant smell behind.

[MistyBlue]

I came to this forum because this thread was the first one listed on the forum list page. The word "rug" was on a lower line and what I read was, "Getting cat pee off horse?" :lol: :eek: :lol:
Just *had* to find out the story on that!

Now I can see it's horse RUGS. Makes more sense, although not as funny. :winkgrin:
Actually, not funny at all. Cat urine stinks to high heaven and is one of the hardest things to get out of fabrics.
Is it a waterproof rug? Is it an insulated one with fill? A paste made of baking soda and water can help remove surface stains and scent. Vinegar also help remove cat urine scent, however I don't know if it's safe for waterproof material.
If it's waterproof with fill you may have to bite the bullet and bring it to a laundromat and wash it. Warm/cold setting with baking soda based laundry powder and then add a cup of white vinegar to the fabric softener cycle. Extra rinse, fast spin.
Don't put it in the dryer. Most blankets will maintain their level of waterproof through a wash cycle (not hot water though) and if it doesn't stay 100% waterproof you can always re-waterproof it.
Good luck, I hope this helps.
Or hopefully someone who's had the same issue found something that definitely works and will chime in.

[2ndyrgal]

carpet knife.

[spaceagevalkyrie]

Assuming they can be washed, include Nature's Miracle in the wash water. If you know where the pee spot is (as opposed to the whole blanket having that awful smell), pre-spray the spot with the Nature's Miracle. The stuff really does work.

I actually don't buy Nature's Miracle itself, though I can't for the life of me think of what I do buy. If you go to PetSmart and find the NM, there will be several other brands IN THE SAME SECTION. If you buy from that section, they are all comparable. The one I buy is considerably cheaper, red and white label.

I can use NM on them? I've got a whole gallon of that stuff for the foster dogs, since its practically a ritual for them to each pee on the carpet first thing when they get here :lol:. NM has the red and white label, so you might have the real stuff :).

[EqTrainer]

What a timely post. My neighbors had children and therefore threw their cats out of the house, so they have been coming over an fighting for the barn territory w/my cats. Of course blankets are fair game for spraying. I swear.. I have NEVER been so tempted to kill something as I am right now. Few things are more enraging then picking up a $300 blanket and it has cat pee on it AND your horse is outraged that you are going to put it on him.

Natures Miracle, here I come. While we are at it.. any way to REPEL cats from your barn other than a shotgun?

[jeta]

carpet knife.

My thoughts exactly...... Natures Miracle or the like, but honestly, cat pee is the absolute worst smell on the planet to me and unlikely to get rid of completely if you have a sensitive sniffer.......I have had to replace carpets and walls in my house where a cat decided she needed to express herself....( Yeah, believe it or not the male cat was a saint, it was the female rescue cat with the bad manners in my house :eek:).....

Good luck....I hope you are able to find something to save your blankets....

[onelanerode]

EqT, I well remember your fantastic water pressure and COLD water. Surely that'd be more satisfying, though perhaps not a long-lasting solution. :winkgrin:

I have a bottle of Nature's Miracle but haven't had to use it yet. My seven-cat-owning coworker swears by it though.

[lcw579]

I've found something called X-O odor neutralizer works even better than Nature's Miracle - and trust me I have lots of experience. Guy at the pet supply place told me it is what they use at hospitals to clean up all the bodily fluids. It is an enzyme cleaner too but smells good and seems more effective.

[JoZ]

I can use NM on them? I've got a whole gallon of that stuff for the foster dogs, since its practically a ritual for them to each pee on the carpet first thing when they get here :lol:. NM has the red and white label, so you might have the real stuff :).

I had a barmy old cat who had hallucinations that he was in the litter box when he wasn't. Even he seemed surprised when he'd realize what he had done. As a result, I have used Petzyme* on just about everything. Comforters, pet beds, small rugs. My good clothing... :no: Man, I loved that cat. I MUST have!

*I guess I was thinking of the NM that I DON'T buy when I was visualizing the label.
Mine is actually this one, Petzyme (http://pet.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/pPETS-5123846t400.jpg). Not red and white at all.

[TheJenners]

I used the red and white (NM I guess) label stuff on a couch because a very sensitive female cat who was stressing during the divorce and peeing on it...daily...poor damn cat. What a skitz. He kept the cats, I took my couch. Never smelled like cat pee again.

Until, that is, I delivered said couch, matching chair, and ottoman to a family in need when I moved and decided I didn't want that set anymore. Good lord their house REEKED of cat urine. As in, I coughed, tossed the ottoman inside and told the BF I would wait at the truck. :dead:

[lily04]

Natures Miracle, here I come. While we are at it.. any way to REPEL cats from your barn other than a shotgun?




My neighbor has a JRT that is a cat exterminater. :(

[TheJenners]

Post thought on repelling cats: they HATE citrus of any type. Maybe lay a line of lemon juice around where you want them to stay away? Sort of a slug-bait-line crossed with an exorcist-protection-circle thing??

[Addison]

You can use almost any of thhose "urine/pet odor removal products" as most of them are enzyme based. As someone else said you may have to wash and rinse more than once but I have been able to save many blankets, sheets....that the cats have gotten too before I have been able to wash then for the end of the season.

As an side, the same product works great on teen age boy (or girls) sneakers when they have reached that beyond human smell which doesn't take too long to reach depending on the teenager in questions activities. (not great English, I know)

[spaceagevalkyrie]

You can use almost any of thhose "urine/pet odor removal products" as most of them are enzyme based. As someone else said you may have to wash and rinse more than once but I have been able to save many blankets, sheets....that the cats have gotten too before I have been able to wash then for the end of the season.

As an side, the same product works great on teen age boy (or girls) sneakers when they have reached that beyond human smell which doesn't take too long to reach depending on the teenager in questions activities. (not great English, I know)

Aaah, there is hope for my rugs then! And for my brothers sneakers, they smell like something died in there :lol:.

[KateKat]

Ugh, cat pee is the worst. What I've done on my laundry (since one of my kitties thinks that peeing on a basket of laundry is HEAVEN) is pour an ample amount of NM into the washing machine, let it soak and run through a cycle, and then repeat until the smell is gone. DO NOT send through the dryer unless you're sure the smell is gone...kind of weird but I test by warming the area with my breath and then taking a good sniff.

As for keeping kitties away...if the battling barn cats are getting into your tack room, there is this wonderful invention called "Scat". Its a can of compressed air that is motion triggered. Cats learn pretty darned fast with that thing where they can and cannot go. Its readily available at most large pet stores.

[cloudyandcallie]

"Fresh" urine responds well to any of the methods and products supra, but "old" urine is really hard to get out. I learned a hard lesson when a feed store owners asked me to wash her 2 horses's blankets, draft and 1/2 friesian so big blankets. She hung them on the fence at her barn. I picked them up, left them in my truck in the warm GA sun and............the urine smell came out. Turns out a year before, a year before:eek: the woman had locked her cat in her trailer dressing room for 3 days, and kitty had used the blankets which were on the floor. Blankets stayed in closed up dressing room for a year. I washed those suckers 3x in my washing machine, treated them with everything I had and they still stunk. All free as a favor. Since that time when I "volunteer" to clean blankets, I double check for cat urine.

I also no longer use that feed store.

[Zu Zu]

Vinegar !

[FatCatFarm]

Post thought on repelling cats: they HATE citrus of any type. Maybe lay a line of lemon juice around where you want them to stay away? Sort of a slug-bait-line crossed with an exorcist-protection-circle thing??

Huh? Never heard of that and note name of farm. I have one who loves to lick my glass once I've finished my OJ.

[JanM]

Eq Trainer-supposedly moth ball crystals (not moth balls) scattered around do it, and there is commercial stuff that doesn't work. I would get some have-a-heart traps, use moth ball crystals to keep neighbor's cats on the side with the traps and then take them to a no kill shelter or get them neutered and rerelease them-maybe there's a feral cat service that will neuter them free.

Of course, I'm sure the neighbors will do what my local idiots did and get more to replace them. Their cats were unneutered, unloved and never indoors as far as I could tell. The mama cat disappeared and then someone who shall remain nameless trapped the two males that were wandering, took them to the vet for everything including neutering, and took them with her when she moved many miles away-they now have a real home and won't end up coyote food or road pizzas now.

Getting cat pee out of clothing must be the worst thing ever. Maybe a round or two with a half and half water/white vinegar and really soak it, then use NM. Just don't put them in the dryer until you confirm the smell is gone or it will set in it forever.

[Zu Zu]

I thought moth balls and anything like - are highly toxic to cats ~ so is cedar wood - like a cedar closet for storing clothes.

[JanM]

Zu Zu-the cats are repelled by the smell and won't cross the line of crystals-unfortunately, the crystals reek when they are first opened so nothing comes near them (including me). But, people really need to avoid using any sort of moth crystal/moth ball product indoors at any time since it is toxic.

[Zu Zu]

Zu Zu-the cats are repelled by the smell and won't cross the line of crystals-unfortunately, the crystals reek when they are first opened so nothing comes near them (including me). But, people really need to avoid using any sort of moth crystal/moth ball product indoors at any time since it is toxic.
Thank you for the clarification JanM ~ I was not aware of this method.

[EqTrainer]

Eq Trainer-supposedly moth ball crystals (not moth balls) scattered around do it, and there is commercial stuff that doesn't work. I would get some have-a-heart traps, use moth ball crystals to keep neighbor's cats on the side with the traps and then take them to a no kill shelter or get them neutered and rerelease them-maybe there's a feral cat service that will neuter them free.

Of course, I'm sure the neighbors will do what my local idiots did and get more to replace them. Their cats were unneutered, unloved and never indoors as far as I could tell. The mama cat disappeared and then someone who shall remain nameless trapped the two males that were wandering, took them to the vet for everything including neutering, and took them with her when she moved many miles away-they now have a real home and won't end up coyote food or road pizzas now.

Getting cat pee out of clothing must be the worst thing ever. Maybe a round or two with a half and half water/white vinegar and really soak it, then use NM. Just don't put them in the dryer until you confirm the smell is gone or it will set in it forever.

Thanks, some great ideas here. Most of them have wandered off and probably been picked up by hawks or killed by feral dogs but a few of them have figured out that my barn is safe and warm. It mostly happens when the weather is bad.

Not sure they would get more, one of their dogs died and has not been replaced, thank God.. I'm hoping it's a sign that they've at least somewhat realized they don't need more animals..

[JanM]

Zu Zu-I was totally serious about the smell too. Depending on how close your neighbors are you might get some complaints from people who live downwind too. Considering the toxic chemicals I can't believe they still sell moth balls and crystals. Apparently in high enough concentrations and prolonged exposure the effects have lead to a few people I heard about being put in nursing homes because they seemed to be getting dementia or alzheimer's, then they get better usually. Some people also believe that snakes avoid the moth balls/crystals too-that one certainly isn't true. They do sell commercial powders and sprays that supposedly repel dogs and cats but I don't think they're much more than pepper.

[JoZ]

No comment on the moth ball/crystal idea because I cannot BEAR the smell of it. I put moth BALLS (which I think are less volatile than the crystals) somewhere many many years ago for animal repellent and could smell it "in my nose" for weeks.

But I thought I'd chime in and say that the Nature's Miracle/Petzyme type stuff is also, hands down, the BEST thing for cleaning litterboxes. I've always heard that a very strong detergent smell can repel a cat from the box, which of course is not what one wants to do. I simply empty the box, use hot water to get off any mess that's on the rim, and then slosh in some enzyme cleaner. Dry with a paper towel. Any urine odor is gone entirely, and it leaves a fresh, not-obnoxious scent that is appealing to me and doesn't bother the kitties. My FAVORITE pet care product usage!

[Foxtrot's]

Mothballs remind me of my grandmother! :)

[cloudyandcallie]

moth balls also help keep away raccoons and possums. Those things smell so bad (the moth balls) that most animals won't approach them.

Any "fresh" urine can be cleaned off pretty easily, and as Zu Zu said, vinegar is good for that too. It's the old urine stains that are so hard to get rid of.

Placing newspaper on both sides of the blanket and using something to press it down also helps. Newspaper is used by professional car cleaners to get vomit and urine stains and smells out of car upholstery and carpeting.

[Zu Zu]

I agree with cloudyandcallie - newspapers have saved a carpet or two for me - after cleaning the area and using vinegar ~ I place newspapers on the spot ( where the cat urine was) and the newspaper will " lift" the remaining odor - then you remove and toss - repeat with another sheet or two of newspaper and voila` stain and odor gone ! As stated above ~ when dealing with a blanket ~ some newspaper on top of and under the blanket will give the odor and stain a place to go and be collected ~ so the stain & odor will be "lifted and collected" .