If you decide to buy a cat or a kitty, then you need to be prepared for the fact that one day your pet can leave offensive marks on your favorite couch. This can happen for many reasons. Maybe your kitten does not like or does not fit the size of its trays. Perhaps you have a cat-rival in your house. Before starting to "educate" a cat about a puddle on a sofa or carpet, it is necessary to find out why the animal behaves this way.
If you do not plan to receive offspring, it is better to castrate a cat at the age of one year, and sterilize the kitty. Perhaps this will even prolong the life of your pet, and save furniture from cat marks.
How to clean a sofa from cat urine?
The easiest way to deal with fresh spots from cat urine. Do not use any aromatic substances such as fragrant oil, deodorant and others: by this you can only for a short time disguise the smell of urine. Also, do not use chlorine-containing drugs. First, they are able to further enhance the unpleasant odor, and, secondly, bleach can irretrievably ruin the colored upholstery of your sofa.
An unpleasant and persistent smell of urine is caused by insoluble in water crystals of uric acid. Even if the stain and dried up, it is only necessary to raise the temperature or humidity in this place, as the smell of urine appears again. Therefore, it is necessary to remove all remnants of uric acid from the couch.
This acid can dissolve in glycerol or in alkaline solutions. Therefore, cleaning the sofa from urine at home can be done with the help of strong oxidizers: a solution of potassium permanganate, iodine, citric or acetic acid, soda. You can use hydrogen peroxide, alcohol, vodka, glycerin or household soap.
To remove from the couch, even the long-standing smell of cat urine use this method. First, wipe the stains on the sofa with a solution of vinegar. Remove remaining vinegar from the upholstery with paper towels or toilet paper. After this place dries, sprinkle it with soda. If urine got into the sofa, take a syringe and use it to inject the soda solution under the sofa casing.
After that, spray a mixture of liquid for dishes and hydrogen peroxide from the spray gun.
As practice shows, the smell of cat urine can be removed from the couch and various industrial products containing special enzymes. When working with them, you should strictly follow the recommendations indicated on the product package. For the final removal of the smell, it can take a long time, up to several days. But the result you will be satisfied: these funds will remove not only smells, but also any other organic contamination in the skin of your sofa.