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Woke up to find the spare room bed has been used as a toilet by one of our 'lovely' little felines, have sprayed some urine odour remover on the mattress but have no other ideas apart from google, it's an Ikea foam/spring mattress and I don't really want to throw it out as quite new.
Genuinely, I wouldn't worry too much about it. There's various products for getting rid of the smell so use them, let it dry/air for a couple of days, stick a mattress protector over it, forget about it.
We just spray with Vanish fabric cleaner, then prop the mattress up against a wall and leave a fan blowing on it to dry it off.
We have four cats, every single piece of furniture in the house, inc all carpets has been vomited on, peed on, shat on at some point or other....
Your cat is likely stressed by something. Another cat in it's territory? Cat flap not working? That sort of thing.
80 Marlborough reds. That's guaranteed to make sure you can't smell the cat wee.
Our old mog did the same in protest when we brought a child home from hospital.
Sat in the middle of the mattress we had on the floor in the kids room and emptied the bladder.
Urine odour remover, and a carpet steamer, it also has a removable cover, and putting it through the wash was the next option. But we didn't have to do that as the smell went.
The mattress is now on one of the kids beds, nearly a decade later.
Probably due for replacement.
Cover the cat in Sudocrem,that'll teach it.
Footflaps 🤣
Yak, we think the little one is stressed as the big male cat chases her round the house pretty much daily, so going to get feliway today and give the big male puss a stern talking to.
Mattress - pah!
Wait till they piss on your toaster and you don’t initially notice, toasted cat urine is absolutely gopping - proper vomit inducing.
Yak, we think the little one is stressed as the big male cat chases her round the house pretty much daily
Poor thing. She needs her own area of the house that the other one can't get into, so she can feel secure.
stick a mattress protector over it, forget about it.
The cat or the mattress?
You sure it was the cat ?
Just to add it may happen again if the cat is stressed. One of ours kept piddling on the front door mat. Another time another did that on the lounge carpet, in the same place a few times. Usual cleaners to get rid of the smell, and don't shout at the cat if you see them do it, as it just exasperates the problem.
Four cats here, house get's trashed. No fancy settee here !
The cat or the mattress?
Yeah, good point. Either.
Four cats here, house get’s trashed. No fancy settee here !
One of our sofas....
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One of our cats used to do this regularly, she's now banned from the main part of the house after we replaced 3 mattresses.....
Fill the bed with lion poo. That will teach it....
Makes the dog shitting on the kitchen floor seem like the better option.
Makes the dog shitting on the kitchen floor seem like the better option.
Just wait till it happens in your toaster...
Funny thing is we lost a toaster due to a cat. Cat jumped up on top of kitchen cupboards, threw up, all landed inside the toaster !
Animals and kids, who'd have 'em.
Wait till they piss on your toaster and you don’t initially notice, toasted cat urine is absolutely gopping – proper vomit inducing.
Weirdly we had the same a few months ago - discovered it a few days after I took something out of a fruit bowl and found it swimming in cat pee. He'd obviously been experimenting in stupid places to urinate. I'd been searching the house looking for the smell, not expecting to find the problem in full fruit bowls or toasters.
Genuinely, I wouldn’t worry too much about it. There’s various products for getting rid of the smell
But also, the rest of the house will stink so much of cat that your freshly cleaned mattress will be the only thing in the house that doesn't. 😀
Fill the bed with lion poo. That will teach it
Or hammer frozen sausages into the mattress
Febreze. Standard item carried by most logistics drivers, especially if driving Motability vehicles.
You sure it was the cat ?
Maybe Amber Heard has snuck into your house...
You need to stamp your authority on it and piss the bed yourself
I had a thread about this not long ago.
We had an early hours power cut. Which is great because it trips the burglar alarm. Couldn't get the breaker to reset. By a process of elimination I worked out that one of our little darlings had emptied herself into a 4-gang under my desk. I think she'd been doing it for a while unnoticed.
You need something enzyme-based to break it down or it'll stink. My clean-up was the specialist spray, the Vax (they have a pet formula liquid), and a liberal sprinkling of Vanish. It took days on rotation but it's fine now.
Keeping the door closed for a few days stopped her from doing it, she's fine now. I think there was a bit of a litterbox territory war going on, she has her own because she's special.
Here you go.
https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/catpiss-neverclean/
(Biological washing powder, not Vanish. But Vanish would likely have helped I think.)
Left my very wet and muddy biking shoes in our car port to dry and a neighbours bloody moggy peed on them! Tried various sprays, soaking in disinfectant for 48 hours and a long cycle in the washing machine all to no avail, they still smell a bit. Still wear them, but Mrs B. won't have them in the house so they now live in the garage.
Our previous cat was very nervous about car travel to the vets. Yes, you can see where this is going cant you.
Needless to say all my cars smelled of cat wee, she'd let out a perfectly directed steady stream of hot stinking protest right across the seat, back and footwell adjacent. There was no way any chemical formula, scrubbing and drying was going to get rid. Particularly unpleasant on a cold damp winters day with heated seats on and in car temperature rising.
One time I put her in facing away from me. That time I had to enter the vets with a large damp smelly piss stain down the front of my jeans will never be forgotten.
Or the hot summers day she backed it up with a bowel evacuation in her cat basket 🤢
OP you are amateur.
This is all vindicating my decision never to own a cat.
Left my very wet and muddy biking shoes in our car port to dry and a neighbours bloody moggy peed on them!
I was expecting "and they smelt much better than normal" as the punchline....
This is all vindicating my decision never to own a cat.
It wasn't my decision to own a cat, it was my wife and daughters, on the basis that I wouldn't feed it or pick up its mess. I always had dogs growing up. Nevertheless, I like the cats (we now have 2) and they like cwtching up on me in the evenings. Much to the kids disgust. 😀
But, a couple of weeks ago, we were all in the middle of a vehement family argument, and I'd stopped speaking to everybody having spent the last hour shouting at everybody. I thought it was safer for my future prospects of liberty if I just plugged my headphones in and washed up some dishes while staring at the garden and muttering obscenities under my breath. While doing this, I became of an awful stench and, turning slowly, saw the cat facing me in the middle of the kitchen and taking a dump. I'd swear that he flicked vees at me.
Sometimes the world and everything in it hates you. Don't let that put you off owning cats, though, even if they do sometimes pick sides.
😀
Makes the dog shitting on the kitchen floor seem like the better option.
Just wait till it happens in your toaster…
Just don't let @frankconway near it....
If it’s not too toxic, some kind of citrus-based cleaner/ degreaser?
It may cover up the odour, and since cats hate citrus, it should deter them from going near your mattress again.
Regular bicarbonate of soda from your supermarket is great at neutralising odours.
Works great in trainers.
This is all vindicating my decision never to own a cat.
+1 spent today cleaning up my mates house, ready to put on the market once probate is granted - wifes comment based on what we found "we are never ever having pets no matter how cute they are"
So sprayed the mattress liberally with simple solutions cat satin and odour remover and then hoovered with a vax carpet cleaner, seems to of removed the smell...will find out when my mate sleeps in the bed next week 🤣
Winning TOTW has made up for the piss smell, the little puss will love the bottle opener.
help, Cat peeed on the mattress
Set fire to it.
The mattress, not the cat. I'm not evil.
PS dogs can be just as grim as cats. At least cats are generally very clean.
Oh I've had the cat not liking vet visits and piddling through the carrier all over the back seat. Wasn't great as it was hot weather at the time, and getting into a car smelling of hot cat wee was not fun. Current four are fine, although two do occasionally get poop stuck in their long fur. That's grim.
Jeez.
I thought our cat was a minger: as above he's a long-haired cat and does occasionally come in sporting dangleberries of various sizes.
Fortunately we don't have a catflap so he gets examined on the way into the house and dealt with as necessary, not a fun job, but at least outside in the healthful fresh air.
Cats crapping on the kitchen floor, vomiting in the toaster, and widdling in the fruit bowl is a whole other level!