Hello,
First of all, if this is the wrong forum please move it to whatever forum would work best.
My 7 year old cat Charlie has never had any health issues and has always been well behaved. For some reason last summer, he started peeing in a couple of specific spots in the room where his litter box is located. We took him to the vet and the vet observed small crystals in his bladder that might have been causing discomfort. We switched his diet and went back to the vet and he is seemingly all good.
The issue is he kept peeing in the house in the same few spots and we couldn't get him to stop. He has two litter boxes and still peed in those without issue, but also liked to pee in the other spots. The urine isn't dribbles or drips, it's a calculated decision that he makes as I once walked in on him doing it. The biggest concern we had is electrical sockets, as one of his pee spots is right below one and he had peed into the socket causing it to smoke the next time we used it. We put him on Fluoxetine and it has worked great, although he will sometimes have a random episode. There is nothing at all that has changed about our house or living situation. My wife and are two of the most boring people on earth so nothing changes.
Because he continued to pee, the carpet is now ruined where he peed. In the end, we know we have to replace the carpet (we have to replace all of the carpet anyways as the previous owners had kids who loved fingernail polish). We have no issue replacing the carpet except for the fact that we don't trust him to not ruin that carpet.
In the meantime, does anyone have any advice at all cleaning up the carpet as best as we can? If it's something you can buy in the store, we have tried it. We ordered Odormute as we heard it is a great product but unfortunately it didn't help us. We've tried baking soda and vinegar with no luck. We've rented those carpet cleaners at your local grocery store with no luck. The carpet is in such bad shape that we can't even tell if he is still peeing on it because it smells like pee regardless. I'm sure this question has been posed a million times in the past so my apologies for beating a dead horse. I'm not against just taking a box cutter and tearing out that section of the carpet but not sure if there is something I'm not thinking about that would make the situation worse if I did that.
Any help would be much appreciated.
First of all, if this is the wrong forum please move it to whatever forum would work best.
My 7 year old cat Charlie has never had any health issues and has always been well behaved. For some reason last summer, he started peeing in a couple of specific spots in the room where his litter box is located. We took him to the vet and the vet observed small crystals in his bladder that might have been causing discomfort. We switched his diet and went back to the vet and he is seemingly all good.
The issue is he kept peeing in the house in the same few spots and we couldn't get him to stop. He has two litter boxes and still peed in those without issue, but also liked to pee in the other spots. The urine isn't dribbles or drips, it's a calculated decision that he makes as I once walked in on him doing it. The biggest concern we had is electrical sockets, as one of his pee spots is right below one and he had peed into the socket causing it to smoke the next time we used it. We put him on Fluoxetine and it has worked great, although he will sometimes have a random episode. There is nothing at all that has changed about our house or living situation. My wife and are two of the most boring people on earth so nothing changes.
Because he continued to pee, the carpet is now ruined where he peed. In the end, we know we have to replace the carpet (we have to replace all of the carpet anyways as the previous owners had kids who loved fingernail polish). We have no issue replacing the carpet except for the fact that we don't trust him to not ruin that carpet.
In the meantime, does anyone have any advice at all cleaning up the carpet as best as we can? If it's something you can buy in the store, we have tried it. We ordered Odormute as we heard it is a great product but unfortunately it didn't help us. We've tried baking soda and vinegar with no luck. We've rented those carpet cleaners at your local grocery store with no luck. The carpet is in such bad shape that we can't even tell if he is still peeing on it because it smells like pee regardless. I'm sure this question has been posed a million times in the past so my apologies for beating a dead horse. I'm not against just taking a box cutter and tearing out that section of the carpet but not sure if there is something I'm not thinking about that would make the situation worse if I did that.
Any help would be much appreciated.