How To Select a Cat Urine Remover

Need to select a cat urine remover? We're inundated with ads and commercials for cleaning products, which makes it hard to determine what to use. With so many of these products out there, how do you select the right one? This is a common question.

Take a look at these frequently asked questions and their answers. They'll help you select the right cat urine remover and avoid the wrong ones.

Question: My cat has been urinating on the couch. I tried ordinary upholstery cleaner, but I just couldn't get rid of the smell. Is it safe to use my detergent to clean the stains?

Answer: Whether it's safe to use detergent on your furniture depends on the specific product and the material involved. Even if it is safe, you're likely to be just as disappointed in the results as you were with the upholstery cleaner. It's best to avoid using detergent.

Household products such as these might work great on some stains, but not cat urine. Cat urine is composed of proteins, which have an extremely strong scent--too strong for most cleaning products. They can mask the urine's odor, but they don't remove it completely.

Not only will the urine remain, but your cat will react to its scent by urinating in that spot again. Only when you remove the urine will your cat know that the spot is not meant to be his litter box. Choose a product that's safe for your upholstery and made to remove cat urine.

Question: My cat keeps urinating on the carpet. After trying carpet cleaner, the smell actually seems worse. What did I do wrong?

Answer: You probably handled this problem just like most people would. Our first instinct is to grab the nearest carpet cleaner and scrub like crazy. While that works for some stains, it doesn't for cat urine.

First, regular carpet cleaners don't remove cat urine. They might make it invisible or temporarily mask the odor, but the urine is still stuck in that carpet. They don't have the necessary ingredients to eliminate it. Instead, you need a product designed to remove cat urine.

Second, you might have scrubbed the stain too hard. If you use too much pressure, the urine can saturate the carpet fibers and even soak into the pad below the carpet. Always blot the urine gently with a paper towel before using a cat urine remover.

You know that you need to choose a cleaning product designed to remove cat urine. You also know that it's important to blot urine gently rather than scrub it. Now you need to learn how to determine--out of all of the specialty pet stain products out there--the best way to select a cat urine remover.

Jenny Johnson is a pet lover and the author of the highly successful ebook "How To Clean Dog & Cat Urine". To learn how you too can clean your cat's urine, and live in a clean, odor-free home again, please visit: [http://www.removedogandcaturine.com]

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