How to get rid of dog pee smell in carpet?

[strollingbones]

Well the smell is still there, it's just faded. I still smell it when I walk in the hall or if I crawl on the floor. But I shampooed the holy hell out of it with a massive Hoover shampooer that I picked up for a song on Craigslist. I spent two days going over and over it...If I had it to do again I would have rinsed it repeatedly with plain hot water and vinegar. When it was almost dry, I dumped baking soda all over the carpet and vacuumed it up, and that really REALLY helped. It was pretty bad initially.

Did you try "Nature's Miracle"? I've used that stuff and it eliminated strong cat and dog pee smell from a carpet to where the animal didn't know they went there.

I use Nature's Miracle and think it is God's sent! When I replaced my carpet, I got the best pad available that has a texture on top that repels liquids. I just put a cloth on top of the urine spot and step on it it and it absorbs most of the pee and use Nature's Miracle. It is a Miracle. If I put water on it and try to absorb it with a machine first, it makes it worse.

BTW, Service master could not get stains out where Nature's Miracle could.

In my opinion, putting a dog in a garage or outside for good is neglect.

putting my dobie out in 11 degrees with snow is neglect if you ask me.....dobies are not snow dogs....nor do they handle the cold well....plus he has too much metal in him to be out in the cold like that......

so much for your stupid ass opinion

 

[koshergrl]

He's quit peeing in the house, it was the steroids. He got fixed yesterday...first thing he did when we got to the vet's was piss all over THEIR floor and counter, haha. The lady brought out a mop took one look and came back with the mop and the bucket. I tried to get him to go before we went, while still at home...I should have walked him around the building when we got there because there are a couple of places he always waters.

Anyway, today it's back to the grind...I'm up early to feed him and get him outside to make sure he takes care of everything before I leave and crossing my fingers.

The carpet still smells by the front door which is where most of the abuse took place, it smells like degraded carpet padding. It's not super strong and doesn't permeat the whole room, but I can tell if I'm within a few feet of it, sitting on the couch at that end. I have a pretty good nose though, nobody else has noticed it, but nobody else hangs out on my couch.

 

[Zoom-boing]

If you don't get some type of enzyme cleaner the smell will remain no matter how much you've cleaned it and will likely be worse in the warm weather. Buy one of the products mentioned . . it will resolve the problem/smell.

 

[koshergrl]

I wanted to wait until it was completely dry before hitting it again. I'll pick up something today. I really am reluctant to soak it yet again if the result will be further deterioration to the pad. The pad itself smells when it breaks down.

 

[koshergrl]

Ok I got the miracle whatever stuff and will use that tonight. Today at noon I sprayed dog repellent all over the place where I don't want them fidgeting around...the big boy shredded a back corner of my couch last night (well I knew it would happen eventually, and I'm glad it was just my old couch and not the carpet). I sprayed the heck out of the carpet where it meets the wood floor, to discourage worrying that any more than they have, and I think it will work. My dog was looking at me with accusing eyes and laying in the middle of the hard wood floor when I left after lunch, sneezing a big. I don't think he's going to stick his nose anywhere I've sprayed that stuff. I sprayed everything in my daughter's room, and the laundry baskets and the clothes in them, since his latest hobby is to grab pens, toys, clothing and race through the house with t hem, refusing to relinquish them until we give him a treat. Yes, we have trained him well.

I also bought the stinker a big treat kong toy...which the terrier immediately commandeered and won't let him near. I think that might work out okay, since the big boy tends to get hyper when the terrier is freaking out...if she's happy playing with the kong hopefully he will also bring down his behavior a notch.

Plus..he's fixed now. He's already a LOT less interested in her shenanigans than he was...*before*.

I have to say, his behavior is slowly improving. I took him to the vet, and was able to hold him even when they brought in other dogs. THAT is a change. He was still excited, and wanted really bad to get loose and run up to them, but he sat down and sort of fidgeted and whined..but he did sit. When we were walking in the mornings I was able to really tackle him to the ground a couple of times when he lost control over seeing another dog...got him on the ground until he stopped fighting, and it seems to have helped, he doesn't take it to that level of fight anymore. At least not with me.

I also had to tackle him this weekend, when he started playing too rough with my son. It was completely my son's fault but the dog still has be be held accountable. I did bring home to the kids that if they didn't start minding (they have a week) regarding the dog, that I was going to get rid of him because if they can't figure it out, one of them is going to get hurt. I can train the dog, but not if they kids are continually un-training him, and that is exactly what they do. I train him to lay quietly, so they roll around on him and giggle, and get him to play tug of war, and laugh when he jumps on them...and that just isn't going to cut it. I think I convinced them I meant it. I had turned the dog loose to run..it only takes about 10 minutes, and he's ready to just take it easy. But my boy insisted on constantly grabbing his collar and getting dragged along, and of course the pup saw that as a game, and then started grabbing the boy. Well when he grabs the boy, he grabs and arm, or a hip and while he isn't exactly biting for real, he is using his mouth and teeth to hold and pull, he has big sharp teeth and they leave marks and it hurts. So I tackled him and scolded him and he stopped..he does get it. But the trick is to keep the kids from instigating it over and over.

So we had The Talk and I hope I have enlisted their help because otherwise, I can't have a 130 lb dog that thinks that small people are chew toys. I'm working on training him to ignore them when they hold food over his head, or tease him with shoes and other things he is fascinated by...but they just have to stop doing it in the first place.

He's much, much better at the table..for a while he was very very pushy about it. He didn't actually take food from their plates, but they were feeding him and he would rest his drooly head on the table about 1 inch from their plates. So I make sure I sit at the table with them at meal times, and make him get back, away from the table altogether...and it's WORKING. he really is a smart boy. Then I give him goodies, away from the table, when we're done eating.

Anyway, thanks for all the good tips on the smell stuff...and I think the Kong is going to be very useful. I may get another one so there's always two. I think that will distract him from chewing on whatever else is available (and there's less and less available to chew on as time goes by). This weekend I'm cleaning my garage out, and if I can get it set up the way I want it, I'm hooking up the heaters in there and in the event he doesn't improve drastically in the house (though I think he is) then we'll set up his room in the garage. I have a good heater for it, and we'll put an old couch in there for him to lay on, up off the floor. I really think that's where we're headed and I think it will work out pretty good. There's more room, he can romp if he wants, there's a window so it's not dark (but there's not much risk of him breaking it) and there's no carpet or hardwood floor to destroy.And I'll still come home at lunch to let them out and visit in the house with them..and bring them in after work. And go everywhere with him on teh weekends.

 

[Ernie S.]

If it has happened repeatedly and has dried it will be impossible to get the stain/smell out completely. I have tried all the pet store stuff. I finally decided to go with "orange" hand cleaner like sold in the auto stores. I apply the goop over the stained area and then go over it with a carpet cleaner like a Bissell or Rug Doctor. The first thing you should get when you have a pet is a carpet cleaner. You are kidding yourself if you dont have one. The carpet cleaner alone is sufficient if you catch an accident with 12-24 hours. The carpet cleaner is 90% of the cleaning and the "orange" cleaner is maybe 10%.

I do have a good carpet cleaner, and it hasn't been going on for very long, but he's a big dog, and he peed a few times before I was able to get the carpet cleaner. I did what I could..I don't have any stains, at least not on the carpet top, I'm sure underneath is a different story. But I think I'll see what it smells like today, now that it's all dry. And then I think I'll rinse the crap out of it. I used a good pet cleaner when I shampooed, and a lot of it (maybe too much) so I think probably at this point, rinsing and rinsing will be my best bet.

The thing is, that you can rinse and clean it a dozen times but you won't get it out of the padding without thoroughly saturating it and without a heavy duty professional machine, you will leave the pad soaked and sitting on your wood floor. I would call the man in the shiny black van and tell him what happened and what you've done so far.

 

[koshergrl]

Oh I saturate it pretty thoroughly, and my carpet cleaner is pretty darned impressive. The mistake I made last time wasn't that I didn't saturate it..it's that I didn't then RINSE it thoroughly. It dried within 24 hours because I cranked up the heat and forced it dry.

I don't mind calling the professionals, but I want to give it a good try first because I'll be incredibly pissed if I call them, and their efforts aren't any more effective than my own.

 

[code1211]

So my vet put my 105 lb dog on a steroid reigmen but didn't bother to tell me that it would make him PISS GALLONS CONTINUALLY FOR DAYS. By the time I had it figured out, he'd peed maybe 8-9 times...and when he pees, it's COPIOUS..he soaked areas by the front door, my couch, the hallway.

I cleaned promptly, but it doesn't matter. I bought a fabulous Hoover super duper carpet cleaner, and cleaned and cleaned and cleaned (it really is fabulous, I got it on craigslist for $45, it's a $500 machine, and she gave me a huge box of cleaning solutions, too! And the book! And the upholstery attachment...by the way, it make my couch look new)

So his steroids have been reduced now, and he quit peeing about 2 days ago (if I had known I would have lodged him in the garage for the 5 day treatment, but it took 2 days for it to start, and another 2 for me to figure it out, and then he was done with it). I made him a belly band (very cool) but he doesn't need it now.

ANYWAY, my carpet looks beautiful..and it smells like a fucking kennel. I swear it's getting WORSE. I spent two days cleaning the crap out of it...last night was awful, it smelled the minute I walked in, I cranked up the heat to dry it out faster, and now it's pretty dry but still smells like big oily dog piss.

So I'm willing to pay a professional to come in and try their hand...but what sort of cleaning should I be looking for? Dry? Will they have any better luck than I did? Because I did a really super good job, and my hoover is no small potatoes. If they're just doing the same thing, I can do that myself, for all the good it does.

Should I do another run with plain water and a little vinegar and see if that helps? I hate to do it so many times that the rug and pad actually deteriorate....

Any advice is insanely appreciated. I've lived with dogs all my life, but have never had to deal with this problem at quite this level before...it's always been a larger area, smaller dogs, and a LOT less urine.

My wife loves cats. The first one we had lived with us as we were transferred 5 times in 10 years and it went nuts and we had to put him down. The cat had taken to marking territory and it sounds like the same thing happened to your floor that happened to ours.

The operative word is floor, not carpet.

We finally had the carpeting replaced to get rid of the smell and luckily we bought from a store that had a sales person who had the same problem and the answer.

The carpet smells, that's a given. The pee has also gotten into the floor beneath. Your need to take up the carpet and make sure that the floor beneath gets completely dry. Give it a day or two. Then use a primer paint on it called Kilz. The stuff is a miracle. It will seal the floor and block the smell completely. Then clean the carpeting again.

Or you could move.

Either way, you won't smell the pee anymore.

 

[Big Black Dog]

Sam's Club sells some stuff called Odoban. It's pretty good for it. We've been using it for years.

 

[koshergrl]

So my vet put my 105 lb dog on a steroid reigmen but didn't bother to tell me that it would make him PISS GALLONS CONTINUALLY FOR DAYS. By the time I had it figured out, he'd peed maybe 8-9 times...and when he pees, it's COPIOUS..he soaked areas by the front door, my couch, the hallway.

I cleaned promptly, but it doesn't matter. I bought a fabulous Hoover super duper carpet cleaner, and cleaned and cleaned and cleaned (it really is fabulous, I got it on craigslist for $45, it's a $500 machine, and she gave me a huge box of cleaning solutions, too! And the book! And the upholstery attachment...by the way, it make my couch look new)

So his steroids have been reduced now, and he quit peeing about 2 days ago (if I had known I would have lodged him in the garage for the 5 day treatment, but it took 2 days for it to start, and another 2 for me to figure it out, and then he was done with it). I made him a belly band (very cool) but he doesn't need it now.

ANYWAY, my carpet looks beautiful..and it smells like a fucking kennel. I swear it's getting WORSE. I spent two days cleaning the crap out of it...last night was awful, it smelled the minute I walked in, I cranked up the heat to dry it out faster, and now it's pretty dry but still smells like big oily dog piss.

So I'm willing to pay a professional to come in and try their hand...but what sort of cleaning should I be looking for? Dry? Will they have any better luck than I did? Because I did a really super good job, and my hoover is no small potatoes. If they're just doing the same thing, I can do that myself, for all the good it does.

Should I do another run with plain water and a little vinegar and see if that helps? I hate to do it so many times that the rug and pad actually deteriorate....

Any advice is insanely appreciated. I've lived with dogs all my life, but have never had to deal with this problem at quite this level before...it's always been a larger area, smaller dogs, and a LOT less urine.

My wife loves cats. The first one we had lived with us as we were transferred 5 times in 10 years and it went nuts and we had to put him down. The cat had taken to marking territory and it sounds like the same thing happened to your floor that happened to ours.

The operative word is floor, not carpet.

We finally had the carpeting replaced to get rid of the smell and luckily we bought from a store that had a sales person who had the same problem and the answer.

The carpet smells, that's a given. The pee has also gotten into the floor beneath. Your need to take up the carpet and make sure that the floor beneath gets completely dry. Give it a day or two. Then use a primer paint on it called Kilz. The stuff is a miracle. It will seal the floor and block the smell completely. Then clean the carpeting again.

Or you could move.

Either way, you won't smell the pee anymore.

Yeah, I'm a big fan of kilz.

We haven't had any more house pissing, at least not from him, since the unfortunate Week of Steroids. I think my terrier occasionally does but damn if I can catch her at it, she's a stealth pisser. She likes to sneak into the bathroom and pee in teh tub (? wth?) and sometimes will pee on the towel I've put down to step onto when I'm getting out of the shower (again wth?) but those are easy because it's towels, porceline and linoleum.

She seems pretty darned happy with the kong. She won't let anybody else near it...not the big dog not the kids...in fact, I just put it in the freezer because she's going nutz over it and the boy. she can have it when I go to work. Maybe the big dog will finally eat her or something, though at this point, it doesn't look likely. He tends to hide behind the couch when she's ona toot and bark when he needs someone to escort him elsewhere rather than try to walk past her.

I hear Willow is sadly down a dog...maybe she needs a terrier. I think they live for decades and this one is only 6. She has a good 10-15 years ahead of her and God knows, she's never been sick a day.

 

[Kooshdakhaa]

Get rid of the dog. My wife and I have no animals so our house doesn't smell like one (or a lot of them).

I'll bet other families who chose to go "petless" have a similar happy experiences.

A friend of mine just bought a house from a guy who owned a bunch of dogs who pissed all over the carpet and walls for years. My friend is now replacing all the original wood flooring that has been ruined by dog urine. And because the walls are lath and plaster it's that much harder to fix, repair or replace.

A while back some friends of our came to visit and brought a dog with them. I was amazed that they thought I'd be ok with their dog staying in our house. I told them, "Sorry, but that dog is gonna' stay in my garage, not my house".

The next day we found the dog shaking from the cold but a-ok. And of course that fuckin' animal pissed and shit everywhere EXCEPT on the newspaper we laid out for him.

Too many animal lovers just accept animals trashing their house as normal. "Well that's just what they do!"

What kind of a sick fucker are you? If the dog was shaking from the cold he was not a-ok. Fuck you.

This is a section where people talk about their pets. People who LIKE pets. I can only assume that you're posting shit like this to piss people off. What a loser.

 

[Kooshdakhaa]

Try Nature's Miracle. You saturate the area and let it dry. It make take more than one application.

It actually neutralizes the urine, changes it chemically so it's no longer urine. Thus it doesn't smell.

If it'll work on cat pee it will surely work on dog pee! : )

And if the floorboards need to be treated, I agree, that Kilz is the way to go!

 

[Big Fitz]

So my vet put my 105 lb dog on a steroid reigmen but didn't bother to tell me that it would make him PISS GALLONS CONTINUALLY FOR DAYS. By the time I had it figured out, he'd peed maybe 8-9 times...and when he pees, it's COPIOUS..he soaked areas by the front door, my couch, the hallway.

I cleaned promptly, but it doesn't matter. I bought a fabulous Hoover super duper carpet cleaner, and cleaned and cleaned and cleaned (it really is fabulous, I got it on craigslist for $45, it's a $500 machine, and she gave me a huge box of cleaning solutions, too! And the book! And the upholstery attachment...by the way, it make my couch look new)

So his steroids have been reduced now, and he quit peeing about 2 days ago (if I had known I would have lodged him in the garage for the 5 day treatment, but it took 2 days for it to start, and another 2 for me to figure it out, and then he was done with it). I made him a belly band (very cool) but he doesn't need it now.

ANYWAY, my carpet looks beautiful..and it smells like a fucking kennel. I swear it's getting WORSE. I spent two days cleaning the crap out of it...last night was awful, it smelled the minute I walked in, I cranked up the heat to dry it out faster, and now it's pretty dry but still smells like big oily dog piss.

So I'm willing to pay a professional to come in and try their hand...but what sort of cleaning should I be looking for? Dry? Will they have any better luck than I did? Because I did a really super good job, and my hoover is no small potatoes. If they're just doing the same thing, I can do that myself, for all the good it does.

Should I do another run with plain water and a little vinegar and see if that helps? I hate to do it so many times that the rug and pad actually deteriorate....

Any advice is insanely appreciated. I've lived with dogs all my life, but have never had to deal with this problem at quite this level before...it's always been a larger area, smaller dogs, and a LOT less urine.

My wife loves cats. The first one we had lived with us as we were transferred 5 times in 10 years and it went nuts and we had to put him down. The cat had taken to marking territory and it sounds like the same thing happened to your floor that happened to ours.

The operative word is floor, not carpet.

We finally had the carpeting replaced to get rid of the smell and luckily we bought from a store that had a sales person who had the same problem and the answer.

The carpet smells, that's a given. The pee has also gotten into the floor beneath. Your need to take up the carpet and make sure that the floor beneath gets completely dry. Give it a day or two. Then use a primer paint on it called Kilz. The stuff is a miracle. It will seal the floor and block the smell completely. Then clean the carpeting again.

Or you could move.

Either way, you won't smell the pee anymore.

Yeah, I'm a big fan of kilz.

We haven't had any more house pissing, at least not from him, since the unfortunate Week of Steroids. I think my terrier occasionally does but damn if I can catch her at it, she's a stealth pisser. She likes to sneak into the bathroom and pee in teh tub (? wth?) and sometimes will pee on the towel I've put down to step onto when I'm getting out of the shower (again wth?) but those are easy because it's towels, porceline and linoleum.

She seems pretty darned happy with the kong. She won't let anybody else near it...not the big dog not the kids...in fact, I just put it in the freezer because she's going nutz over it and the boy. she can have it when I go to work. Maybe the big dog will finally eat her or something, though at this point, it doesn't look likely. He tends to hide behind the couch when she's ona toot and bark when he needs someone to escort him elsewhere rather than try to walk past her.

I hear Willow is sadly down a dog...maybe she needs a terrier. I think they live for decades and this one is only 6. She has a good 10-15 years ahead of her and God knows, she's never been sick a day.

Yeah, I'm a big fan of kilz.

Kilz? That stuff is fantastic. When I worked in hotels, maintenance SWORE by the stuff.

 

[Kooshdakhaa]

koshergirl, it almost sounds like your terrier is trying to pee in an "appropriate" place. One of my minpins used to poop right in front of the toilet, on the bathroom linoleum. That was great, so easy to clean up.

My dogs are housebroken, don't get me wrong, but the little dogs live up to their name and have accidents in the house. They have gotten better as they've grown older, at least.

 

[koshergrl]

I'm happy to report that to the untrained nose, there is no smell at all anymore. I'm sure if I were to crawl around on the floor rubbing my face on the areas I know took the multiple hits, I would not be smelling roses, but as far as smelling it from the couch, or when you come into the room, nope, it's gone. I did get nature's miracle, and went through a whole bottle of dog repellent (not for the peeing, that has stopped, but to keep them from tearing apart my couch or pulling up the carpet where it meets the floor). Terribly effective stuff! Also effective at getting the big boy to drop forbidden items (like my pin cushion full of pins, which for some reason he is obsessed with. If I turn my back for a SECOND he sneaks back to my room and finds it wherever it's buried on my sewing table and rushes through the house with it entirely engulfed in his mouth). I soaked it wtiht he repellent, which hasn't kept him from getting it in the first place, but if he sees me go for the spray bottle (and increasingly, as soon as he knows I know he has it) he drops it post haste. The repellent is long gone, I soaked my couch and rug with it over the course of a few days...but now it holds water and a little lemon juice. He hasn't caught on yet, he just doesn't want that shit anywhere near him. We've also taken to spraying the terrier for going ballistic when people walk by (barking, running in circles, racing around hte room, up on the furniture, barking, barking, barking...and meanwhile, the 110 lb dog matching her every step and sound). I also rearranged my living room, so that instead of having to pull my couch into the middle of the living room to keep it away from the window and wasting about 50 square feet of living room (to prevent the dogs from launching themselves at the window from the couch, and in the big dog's case, knocking over the couch, going through the window, or both) so now although our living room furniture is still covered with sheets to protect it at least we have full use of the area, and can sit comfortably (and facing a less insane direction) on our couch and chairs.

 

[koshergrl]

And the kong is still working its magic...it appears the terrier thinks it's more important to keep the big boy away from it than she thinks it is to bark insanely at passerby, which means when I come home after they've been in for a couple of hours, the house is pretty much in the same order it was when I left it....with the terrier sitting or laying next to the kong and the big boy laying on the couch or chair looking at her and it with covetous eyes.

 

[Pheonixops]

The main problem is that it stays in the padding for the rug. and can and will soak down into the floor under the rug and padding.Treat it, suck it , and blow it.

"How to remove urine stains from carpet:

Urine turns light fabric brown. To reverse the process it needs to be neutralized.
1. Apply vinegar directly to the stain.
2. Wait a few minutes or more then rinse with clear water.
3. Dry the area with a wet – vac, fan, or blow dryer.
4. If that doesn't work follow the directions here.

 

[koshergrl]

Vinegar always works best, and if I get it before it soaks into the pad, I can't even tell...

He hasn't peed on the carpet since this thread. Wait, he tried to once, when he was back on the steroids for a few days, but we caught him and cleaned it up before he finished and before it soaked in.

 

[Kooshdakhaa]

Nature's Miracle Citrus cleaner in the gallon jug at Petco. has enzymes to prevent repeat peeing and kill the odor.

Yeah, that stuff works on cat pee, and if it works on cat pee it'll surely work on dog pee!

I'm lucky. I have six cats and none of them go outside the cat boxes. Probably because I keep the cat boxes very clean.

My dogs had accidents when they were puppies, but I've now ripped all the carpeting out of my house and replaced it with laminate flooring. The big dogs are very well housebroken and if the little dogs have an accident it's almost always on the puppy pad I keep by the back door.

They don't seem to want to go on the hard flooring. Which is a-ok with me! : )

Eleven animals live in my house an my house does not smell. People have made unsolicited comments about it, in wonder, like "You would NEVER know you had six cats in this house!" or "You'd think there'd be some doggy smell in here with all these dogs, but there isn't!"

That's the result of some pretty hard work on my part. I think the trick is in training/housebreaking the animals well, keeping the animals clean and well-groomed, keeping their bedding clean, and of course keeping the catboxes very, very clean. Never skip a day, never!

In fact, I bet my house smells better than some people who have no animals at all. Just because you don't have pets in your house doesn't mean you're clean. Not at all.