A few months ago, my husband installed new carpet in our
bedroom and living room when we moved into our current house. I have been holding
my breath, anticipating, but hoping that my cat would not pee and mark her
territory like she did in our last home. No matter how many times I had scrubbed
the carpet, using every kind of carpet shampoo, I just could not completely get
the awful smell out. It was a source of complete frustration to me. Each time I
came home and opened the front door, the smell would hit me.
Well, Thursday evening as I walked into my bed room, that
horrible, disgusting smell of cat pee was there. OH MY GOSH!!!! I wanted to KILL my cat. I scrubbed and
scrubbed but to no avail, the smell would not come out of the carpet, I could
not even sleep in there, urrgh!
On Friday, I scrubbed
some more, and the carpet still smelled like cat pee. Once again, I was very
frustrated!
On Saturday, Lonnie
rented a carpet cleaning machine. I must have run it over the peed on area at
least 50 times, but the smell was still there.
Sunday morning, Lonnie shampooed it again, while I was rushing
around the house in order to leave by 9:00 a.m. for a big family birthday
luncheon that we were hosting at my mother’s house.
We made sure that my bedroom door was closed to keep that
almost strangled cat out of there.
At the end of the long, busy day with a two hour car ride
ahead of us, we were all very tired when we arrived home.
As Lonnie walked toward our bedroom, I followed behind him to
see if the foul smell was completely gone since the carpet had dried.
Just as he opened the
bedroom door, MY CAT RAN OUT OF THE CLOSED OFF BED ROOM! OH… MY ….GOSH,
UNBELIEVABLE!! Now the odor was stronger because she had PEED AGAIN, in the
same spot as before. I was so upset that I just about came unglued. I repeatedly
said, “How did she sneak past us this morning when we were so careful to keep
her out of the room”, as I paced from the bedroom to the kitchen not knowing
what to do first, clean the carpet or kill the cat.
Does anybody want a
cat?
Disclaimer: I never touched or harmed the cat in any way.
September 30, 2013