How to Clean Cat Urine from Your Carpet!

If youre like me, you dearly love your pets, but it can be frustrating when one of your "animal children" scents your carpeting with the odor of urine. Unfortunately, cat urine odor can stick around for a long time unless you take the proper steps to eliminate it. Even more important, that residual urine odor can cause your cat to urinate in the same spot again. You definitely dont need that!

So, whats the best way to clean cat urine from your carpet and eliminate cat urine odor? Here are some steps you can take that should work to restore your carpeting to its original, pleasant smelling state:

1. Focus on absorbing as much of the cat urine as possible by blotting with a soft, cotton towel. Its important that your carpet be as free of urine as possible before starting the cleaning process. Continue blotting with new towels, until the towel is dry after blotting.

2. In a glass container, mix a solution of 1 part white vinegar to 3 parts water. Apply enough of this solution to the soiled area to penetrate into the fibers of the rug. This will help to remove the odor from the deeper portions of the carpeting. You dont want to do a superficial cleaning job and be left with the odor.

3. Allow the vinegar to dry. If you need to speed up the drying process, try using a fan to blow air on the area.

4. Sprinkle the dried area with a layer of baking soda.

5. Mix together 1 cup of 3% hydrogen peroxide to which youll add a teaspoon of a mild, liquid soap such as dish washing soap. Do a test application on a small, area of carpeting thats not visible to make sure this solution wont change the color of your carpeting. If no color change occurs, you can lightly apply this solution over the baking soda.

6. Use a soft cotton towel to gently rub the area of carpeting with the baking soda/hydrogen peroxide solution.

7. Allow the area to dry completely and then vacuum up the baking soda.

Ive used this technique several times and have had excellent results with no discoloration of my carpeting. Just be sure to do the test application to make sure ithe hydrogen peroxide solution doesnt lighten the color of your carpeting. After vacuuming, your carpet should be back to its unsoiled state with a fresh smell.

Now that you know how to clean cat urine from your carpet and remove cat urine odor, you dont have to live in fear anymore of those "little accidents"!