You can’t avoid it. If you have cats that is. Lovable, sweet, always portrayed as the diligently clean animal who does nothing all day but sit on your lap and lick their paws.

 
It happened to me. What was once a my good kitty always putting everything right into the litter box decided upon moving into a brand new home (and I mean new construction with new carpet and still the fresh paint aroma hanging in the air) that she needed to test out the front entrance for a litter box space.

I was appalled, frantic, disgusted, angry, you name it.

I have a sensitive nose and it hit me right away.

And then I went to work. My husband and I cleaned and vacuumed like crazy. We pour our best cleaners on and extracted them right up. I used all the carpet cleaning tricks I knew in the book and consulted my best cleaning books.

But...

Two days later the odor returned. I was frustrated. Did she go again? I moved to the internet to search for “cat urine”.

I was mortified by what I found! Articles, message boards, review websites. You name it.

Cat urine can’t be removed. Once it’s in it’s there to stay.

Get used to the smell.

You’ll have to cut out your carpet and padding, sand the floor, paint it. Ya-da ya-da

Ohmigoodness!

NEVER!