My mother’s house over time has become like a cattery for wayward kitties. As of recently she had about 8 of them…I lose count all the time. Two of her fuzzy little friends boasted a rather disgusting problem. For some reason, for these two, Eli and Pippin, using the facilities was simply too much to ask. Or perhaps they saw the entire house as “the facilities” but either way my mother was losing her mind.

She had told me of this problem many times over the phone and I’d make recommendations that she never would follow…like giving the cats away. I LOVE cats, don’t get me wrong, but enough is enough. My mother on the other hand won’t even vacuum if one of her many cats is asleep. She doesn’t like to wake them up. You don’t have to tell me how odd my mother is…I’ve decided that I find it charming and whimsical…(Don’t knock my coping mechanism)

By the time I moved across the state to Spokane she was complaining about Eli and Pippin on a daily basis. I remember thinking to myself that her house must absolutely reek. Cat urine is one of the most pungent odors on earth. This was the first time that my husband was to meet my eccentric mother and the thought of taking him into an antique filled cat box was just a little horrifying. To my surprise as we stepped in the door, there was no odor at all. None. You wouldn’t even know she had cats, let alone two that are so destructive. I scratched my head in wonder and being just as blunt as all of the other members of my family asked her how she did it.
The answer was simple: Urine Gone.

My dad loves to buy things he sees on TV. I remember when Oxy Clean came out. I was invited to their house for a demonstration and even smiled as they Oxy Cleaned everything from dishes to shoes. I ended up buying some of my own and cleaned up a lot of my own stains…perhaps with a lot less zeal than those two had, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

Urine Gone essentially eats up the enzymes and obliterates the urine. It also gets rid of any other organic matter stain. It’s pet safe and household friendly. She swears by it. And by seeing the state of her house, I can’t argue. It really DOES get rid of not only the stain, but the smell as well. The website boasts that it keeps them from marking the same spot. I can’t really say that that was the case for Mom, but the urine odor was certainly not a problem.

Eli and Pippin after several years of free reign finally pushed Mom over the edge and now have new homes. She still keeps a bottle of Urine Gone under her sink, but the days of carrying it everywhere she went are over.