Help needed - cat's pee'd in ma boots :-(

- OK, so I got just back from the weekend skiing trip and did my usual thing by transferring my skis and boots from the car to the yard under the shelter. The idea was to bring them in for drying before putting them into longer term storage.

So guess what happens, my boot bag was still unzipped and the cat for some reason just went ahead and peed all over them. I didn't realize it till I brought them inside and the whole place was stinking bad - a bit like cats pee!

What do I do? new boots (liners?) how can I get rid of this awful scent! :

Bwahahaha.

Hum,
sorry.
I've no idea.

Eh eh eh.

The following is just what I would do. It's important to add, however, that this has never happened to me or anyone I know and I haven't the foggiest notion what the "right" thing to do might be:

Take the liners out of the boots.

Swab the insides/outsides of the shells and liners with vinegar?

Then put a lot of baking soda inside the liners and inside the shells.

Hang them somewhere they can air out.

Sell the cat.

Skin the cat and use the hide to make new liners. :

I used to love cats until I had one that completely ruined our couch that way. We couldn't fully get rid of the smell, and eventually had to get rid of it. That stink is harder to eliminate than smoke smell.

Try anything and everything that you hear might work (febreeze, lestoil, etc). Hopefully you can get them to the point where it is acceptible.

If you have naturally smelly feet, that may help.

Despite what any product says, there is no way to get the smell of cat urine out of fabric. Your only option is to get new liners.

Go to the pet store there are several enzymatic odor removers that will help.

I would suggest the following:

Pull out liners, footbeds, zeppa etc. spray everything with the cleaner I mentioned, make sure to saturate the soft goods. Let sit for 15 minutes, throw all the soft stuff in the washing machine. Wash off the boots. Hang the soft stuff to air dry. Once all is dry and reassembled, you may want to store the boots with a sheet of fabric softener in each boot...you'll have the nicest smelling boots on the mountain.

There's stuff you can buy at the pet store called Nature's miracle. It contains an enzyme that will eat the protein in the cat urine. It's the only thing that may work that I know of. You will need to soak your liners and anything else the cat peed on and leave it soaking for days (maybe weeks). I would put them in a plastic bag to soak because they need to stay wet. Re-soak when needed.

Good luck

Thanks Bob, I'm going to try your suggestion. From the rest of the threads, it seems that I'm doomed. I just googled the problem also and it seems someone else was suggesting washing with vinegar. I don't dare put vinegar in the washing machine - the wife will kill me!

I'd stuff charcoal brickets inside the liners for a couple of days.

Urine!!!!

This is a guaranteed product....Just called my cousin, a local vet here. They use a cleaner that can be found at www.urine-off.com. He says it attacks and eats all bacteria components of cat urine....hope this helps!

Thanks Ragin' cajun - plan B solved

Uh, by chance do you play a little Tennis? plan C solved

Now that would be fun. Would need to wait till the wife and kids are out. Then it's just me and the devil cat with all the doors closed

Beat Phil to it this time.

Boy, your socks are really gonna stink once you slip into your boots and your socks absorb the stench like a sponge!!

There are 101 good uses for a dead cat. Read the book.

Nope, cant help it........ROTF
This is why I hate cats........
The Urine off product that Cajun speaks of works ok. The smell however will take a while to nuetralize. The shell being of hard plastic is easy to deal with, vinegar or alcahol will clean it easy, the liners are different, like any shoe, this is going on your feet. Make sure what ever you use isnt going to degrade the materials........Not being a big boot guy, I dont know what materials liners are typically made of. I would read whatever you use real close to make sure it contains no acids, acid is residual and will stay in the liner, and then find your feat...............

After a few days, squirt liberally with lighter fluid, and set the match to the mess. I prefer the Strike Anywhere variety myself, if you're really core, you can light them off the sole of your boot.


We had a cat that liked to pee on things when I was growing up, it seems like everything we tried always left a residual oder. I'd be really hesitant to stick my feet into a liner after that, maybe time for some new boots, or liners at the very least?

I bet you were "pissed"!
"No animals were harmed in the making of this story.....YET?"
Holy crud, there's another good reason NOT to buy boots on eBay:.. or a great reason to sell boots on eBay depending on one's perspective :.

All joking aside, you need to take you liners out! Sanitize and clean the shells thoroughly, but I'm assuming you're smart enough to have done that already. Use the stuff Ragin said, and then let us know if cat really does taste like chicken.

(sorry, couldn't keep it serious)

This thread has "classic" written all over it!!!

Hope it was the wife's cat...

Intuition liners, baby!

I'm so glad I posted my problem. Not only did you guys come up with some great solutions. - I'm actually in fits of laughter now :-). Thanks Trekchick and phillipeR.
Now I could try selling my boots cheap on ebay - not giving boot details away, so to keep you in suspense next time you go boot shopping on ebay :-). And sell the cat to the local Chinese. I might be able to finally buy my dream boots!

Fixed it for ya.

Could have been this:

Holy sh*t, I'm lucky

(TGR thread about a cat)

philpug is funny!! Yup. Funny.

The enzymatic cleaners and vinegar are the only things that MIGHT help, depending on how far the urine soaked in and how long it sat.

This, among many, many other things, is why I won't own a cat.

That and that article in the NYT Year in Ideas about crazy cat ladies getting eaten by their cats.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...r+in+ideas+cat

Yeah...cats are out for themselves and unlike a dog that will guard your carcass until he dies of starvation or dehydration himself, a cat will have no problems feasting on you as soon as you cant fight back....no thanks.

I'm surprised we haven't heard from the Queen yet...

Bonni will be a little upset with all our cat bashing going on here...but while the "Queen cat" is away......please, please continue...highly entertaining!

Ragin' - Got any good Recipes?