Those of us who love our pets and get lots of joy from them still cannot help but ‘loose it” occasionally and have our love almost turned to hate when suddenly getting a whiff of an awful smell of urine on our couches or carpets (sometimes on both).
The smell, especially of cat urine, is so awful that one cannot enjoy sitting in the living room anymore until a solution to the foul smell is found.
Many have tried to remove the smell of cat urine on a couch by using baking soda or citrus pet cleaners and but none of these seem to work.
A pet owner managed to get cat urine off a leather chair by using white distilled vinegar but it was a lot more difficult getting the odor out of her micro fiber sofa. She did, however, remove the cushion covers which she then washed with borax and vinegar in her washing machine and thereafter sprayed the foam with a mixture of 50/50 water and vinegar and is hoping that the odor will go away once it dries.
Should the borax/vinegar/water mixture not result in the odor being removed from the couch she intends taking the advice of a friend, who is also “mother” to a couple of cats, who uses a bacterial cleaner that breaks down the urine. She soaks everything that smells bad in this product and allows it to soak overnight after which she uses a hand-held carpet cleaner in order to absorb some of the moisture.
At least if the borax/vinegar/water method fails to remove the smells, there are a few more remedies to try out.
