Urine and carpets...what works?

Hi guys!


What do you suggest we use on the urine spots that our puppy is leaving on the carpet? Our 8 year old plays on that carpet a lot and I don't want it to smell or become too dirty for him to lay on/put his toys on. I've seen 'Urine Gone' in the As Seen on TV store in our mall, but I don't know if it's a gimmick or not. Can you give us recommendations on what to use to clean up the puppy pee?

Thanks a lot...
Mike

Nature's Miracle is great. You can get it at Petsmart if there is one near you.

Someone else on the board just got the Urine Gone thing and was rather disappointed in it. I'm with MayasMom, get some Nature's Miracle.

Hey Mike,

I was just curious... did you urine gone come with a black light that is suppose to show you where your urine spots are so you can clean them with the product and get rid of the odor?? I paid 20 bucks for this little spray bottle of it and that black light didn't show any urine spots... in fact.. the only thing it showed was the lint on my carpets. I was very disappointed in it. I am just going to have to make the trip to pet smart and get that natures miracle everyone talks so highly about because this pee smell in this house is about to kill me.... not to mention it's so embarrassing when people come over and you know they can smell it too. Makes you feel like your house is not clean.

Thanks for the suggestion!
I didn't actually purchase Urine Gone...I was waiting to see what you guys had to say about it before making up my mind. Looks like I'm going with Nature's Miracle.

X4 Natures Mirical. And a Spot shot dosent hurt either.

from personal experience - the blacklight works as long as there is still any urine (or other organic matter, like vomit) on the surface, you also have to hold the light really close and the room has to be dark. what it does not show is any pee that has soaked in already but has been cleaned up on the surface.

you don't have to use "urine gone" with the blacklight tho, any enzymatic cleaner works.

as for the urine spots your puppy is leaving... the best thing to do is pay more attention to your puppy and not let any accidents happen, because each single one meand a setback in your housetraining and it will even longer to get your puppy to be reliable. if you can't supervise, confine to a crate or playpen, it's simple as that.

also a word about nature's miracle - the product isn't the same anymore as it used to be. the company who used to make nature's miracle sold the name, but not the formula, to another company. what you know as "nature's miracle" is now sold under the name "petastic" and the familiar nature's miracle bottles contain a different formula that is much less effective.

Maybe we should be crating him a bit more...hmmm. We really do keep him with us in the house at all times; we never let him wander around on his own. However, sometimes as I'm following him across the carpet, he'll just start peeing out of nowhere with no previous signs of wanting to do so. It just seems random to us, but we're new puppy owners so maybe we are missing something.


Thanks for the advice.

it's a great help to keep a written log on just when exactly the pup eats, drinks, pees and poops, including accidents. after a few days of writing down all of these, you should be able to see a pattern.

of course ithelps if you can structure your days to feed, water and exercise the puppy at the exact same time for at least a couple weeks.

if he squats and starts to pee, pick him up and say "outside, outside, outside" in a non-threatening, cheerful voice and race outside with him.

I wondered if that was a scam.

I swear by Nature's Miracle. I have never found anything else to work as well. One of the best tricks I learned was to (after cleaning the spot), make sure to get as much liquid as possible out of the carpet. Don't just let it dry.

Make a thick pad of paper towels. Fold them up and place them over the wet spot. Put something heavy on top of the towels (something water proof). Heavy books, bricks, boxes, whatever, just put weight on the towels and change them as they become saturated. I often leave them for several hours depending on how big the spot was.

This 'wicks' the moisture out of the carpet and leaves much less residual to attract more dirt mildew in the carpet.

It works really well.

Thanks for the advice everyone...looks like Nature's Miracle is the only option.