Have you ever had to throw away furniture due to cat pee?

[Anonymous]

We have indoor only cats. Several nearby neighbors have outdoor or indoor/outdoor cats that come right up to our front porch, near our living room windows. This infuriates one of our cats, and a couple years ago she started showing aggression towards one of our other cats. Our vet believes it because seeing the neighbors cats on our porch causes our cat to feel territorial, and since she can't get to those cats, she goes after her "sister."
The "sister" who was getting attacked by our other cat was understandably upset, and started peeing on our furniture--most specifically the chairs in our living room (overlooking where the neighbor cats come.)

Thankfully, our cat has stopped being aggressive towards the sister cat, but the sister cat still continues to pee on the chairs. We've tried Nature's Miracle and other cleaners--and while that helps remove the odors, before long she just pees on it again. It's like she's designated those chairs as "pee chairs."

It depresses me. I don't even like going into the living room anymore because I smell it (even the Nature's Miracle smell makes me gag, and I associate it with cat pee now.) I just want to get rid of the chairs. My husband is pissed because the chairs aren't that old (we got them right before the peeing started) and they were expensive. He thinks we should just keep trying to get her to stop peeing and says he doesn't want to spend money again on new furniture. I told him we can just have an empty living room-I don't care! But the "pee chairs" just depress me.

Has anyone else been through this?

[Anonymous]

Can you get a portable steam cleaner and if that doesn't work get rid of it? Keep them covered.

[Anonymous]

Yes. We had a cat that did this and we got rid of furniture because of it. Cat pee is impossible to get out and like you, it was really stressing me out.

The cat lived to 17 and destroyed many things - furniture, rugs, clothing … I will never get a cat again.

[Anonymous]

We had a similar issue. We doused the chairs in Nature's Miracle and moved the chairs to our garage. After our cat died we had them professionally cleaned. Then they still smelled a bit so they sat in the garage for a while longer. Then we had them cleaned again. The smell was finally gone so they're back in our living room.

I would move them back to the garage if we got another cat, as I suspect there may still be smell to a sensitive cat nose and I wouldn't want to trigger a new problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. We had a cat that did this and we got rid of furniture because of it. Cat pee is impossible to get out and like you, it was really stressing me out.

The cat lived to 17 and destroyed many things - furniture, rugs, clothing … I will never get a cat again.

This. Those chairs are toast. Burn them.

[Anonymous]

Yes, we had to throw out a beanbag the cat pissed on maybe once. impossible to clean those internal filling beads

[Anonymous]

I had to throw out a futon once. The filling was more paper based and I couldn't clean it.

I did save a more traditional mattress by dousing it in cleaner and baking soda, letting the baking soda dry and vacuuming it off.

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to keep the cat out of the living room? Our cat had an issue years ago, peeing in a corner of our finished basement, repeatedly. Totally out of the blue. We used natures miracle, heavy duty cleaned the carpet and then kept the cat out of the basement (closed door). After about a year we started letting cat back in again and no further problems. The cat had to kind of “forget” about the habit, maybe…IDK.

[Anonymous]

The chairs are goners. There’s no way you’re getting the pee out of the foam. I guess you could have them de-upholstered and then bleach the frame and rebuild the chairs but that would probably be more expensive than new chairs.

I have dogs, not cats, but there’s no way I would try to save a peed on chair. It’s like a peed on rug pad - it’s gone. A rug can be thoroughly washed. Curtains, pillows, all cleanable. An upholstered chair cant handle anything that soaks in that much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. We had a cat that did this and we got rid of furniture because of it. Cat pee is impossible to get out and like you, it was really stressing me out.

The cat lived to 17 and destroyed many things - furniture, rugs, clothing … I will never get a cat again.

This. Those chairs are toast. Burn them.

Cat pee is up there with cigarette smoke in terms of being able to get the smell out of a home. It's nearly impossible, double so if you have a sprayer. The furniture is donezo for sure, hopefully it's not also in your floorboards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. We had a cat that did this and we got rid of furniture because of it. Cat pee is impossible to get out and like you, it was really stressing me out.

The cat lived to 17 and destroyed many things - furniture, rugs, clothing … I will never get a cat again.

This. Those chairs are toast. Burn them.

Cat pee is up there with cigarette smoke in terms of being able to get the smell out of a home. It's nearly impossible, double so if you have a sprayer. The furniture is donezo for sure, hopefully it's not also in your floorboards.

I will add for OP, if YOU smell it, as someone who lives in your house and has a certain amount of nose blindness as all of us with pets have, it is likely REALLY rank for anyone who comes into your home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there a way to keep the cat out of the living room? Our cat had an issue years ago, peeing in a corner of our finished basement, repeatedly. Totally out of the blue. We used natures miracle, heavy duty cleaned the carpet and then kept the cat out of the basement (closed door). After about a year we started letting cat back in again and no further problems. The cat had to kind of “forget” about the habit, maybe…IDK.

Unfortunately no. There's no real door and it's very open to the foyer, an open staircase, and the dining room. Being cats, they are very limber and can jump everywhere so we can't even block things off with baby gates like you could with a small dog.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. We had a cat that did this and we got rid of furniture because of it. Cat pee is impossible to get out and like you, it was really stressing me out.

The cat lived to 17 and destroyed many things - furniture, rugs, clothing … I will never get a cat again.

This. Those chairs are toast. Burn them.

Cat pee is up there with cigarette smoke in terms of being able to get the smell out of a home. It's nearly impossible, double so if you have a sprayer. The furniture is donezo for sure, hopefully it's not also in your floorboards.

I will add for OP, if YOU smell it, as someone who lives in your house and has a certain amount of nose blindness as all of us with pets have, it is likely REALLY rank for anyone who comes into your home.

OP here
I agree. I'm all for getting rid of the chairs, it's my husband that is fighting it. He says he can't smell them--but like you said, we (people living in our house) have become used to it. Also, we've used so much Natures Miracle that even if the pee smell is gone, the nature's miracle smell is there and I now I associate it with cat pee. He even says "oh, it's just that you associate the smell"--well, yeah--but shouldn't I be comfortable in my own home?!?! Sorry, this is just as much a marriage problem as it is a cat pee problem.

[Anonymous]

yuck. get rid of the cat too.

[Anonymous]

If the Green Machine can't clean - on furniture be lean