Cats

[Milly48]

My cat has urinated on our carpet, can bicarbonate of soda get the smell out?  If so what do you do, sprinkle it on the carpet?

[Snappy]

Try ordinary soap powder and hot water

[simms]

It isn't just the upper layers of the carpet - you need to get to the underlay or floorboards beneath where the pee will have sunk in. These need to be washed and dried - try leaving layers of kitchen paper there to soak up the moisture - then when dry sprinkle area with bicarb. Don't use bleach which the cat will 'smell' as another cat and so pee on it again. To deter the cat try sprinkling anything with a good citrus smell on the area. Also try to find out why s/he did it - litter tray full, scared of something, or just not housetrained yet?

[l_h_kings]

I moved house because my cat kept peeing in the same spot by the front door. We tried allsorts, but she kept going to the same place and we coudn't shift the smell She's not peed indoors once since we moved.

[Babette]

Had the same problem. Take a bottle of  Febreeze extra strength, remove the spray gun and put your thumb over the opening and sprinkle it liberally over the patch allowing it to soak right in a nd through to the underlay. a good half a bottle should do the trick and will take a day or two to dry out but it will neutralise the urine smell. I have a beige wool carpet and it left no stain or damage whatsoever.

[D.G.W.T.H.]

Kill the farkin thing and get a dog!!!