my cat peed on my bbag!

REREsaurus · Feb 9th, 2008, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by kristie

OMG my stomach just DROPPED when I read this. Definitely call LMB but in all honesty, I think it may be ruined. Dog pee and cat pee are two totally different things. One tPFer said her dog peed on her bag and it wound up being fine in the end. Cat pee is a totally different story, you usually have to throw out the item. I remember a cat peeing on my friends comforter on her bed. She washed it, dry cleaned it, EVERYTHING and it always stunk like wretched cat pee. She had to throw it out. I hope someone else has a fix for you but I dunno.....please keep us posted!

My goodness! I had no clue!

Okay, scratch my previous post about baby wipes then. Jeeeees.

kimberf · Feb 9th, 2008, 04:06 PM

Hopefullly I can offer a little glimmer of hope on this. See what LMB says, and hopefully they can help.

My cat peed on my husband's wheelie bag suitcase a couple of times a few years back when she was mad that he was gone so much. He left it lying on the floor flat, so she climbed on top and peed on it -- it was on the exterior and dripped inside, so throughout the bag pretty well. And she peed on it a couple of times, not just once. It was a $600+ suitcase, so figured I'd try to save it. I used Out! pet odor eliminator (this stuff - it's an enzyme cleaner like tiramisu recommends) and it totally got the smell out. Completely. No lingering hint of cat pee at all, and I have a super-picky nose. I had to apply it a couple of times, and I let it sit for a long time, but it was totally worth it.

The hitch is that you have to use the product with warm water, so your bag is probably going to dry stiff, and then you're going to have to work get it back to its nice squishiness. Maybe you can at least do this and then LMB can recondition it from there. I have to say, as a pet owner, that I don't think any of the powdered stuff is going to work, either the baking soda stuff (which I've used in the litterbox before) or the enzyme stuff, since you need to lift out what's in the leather fibers or it will smell again.

Good luck - I hope LMB has good news for you, but you may be able to get the smell out and then just need to soften it back up from being waterlogged...

ivylouwho · Feb 9th, 2008, 06:09 PM

Wow! What did you do to piss off your cat? (no pun intended)

trixX · Feb 22nd, 2008, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by ivylouwho

Wow! What did you do to piss off your cat? (no pun intended)

That really cracked me up! To the OP. I hope your bbag is okay ..best of luck..

Feb 9th, 2008, 04:06 PM	#32
kimberf Member Location: California	Re: my cat peed on my bbag! Hopefullly I can offer a little glimmer of hope on this. See what LMB says, and hopefully they can help. My cat peed on my husband's wheelie bag suitcase a couple of times a few years back when she was mad that he was gone so much. He left it lying on the floor flat, so she climbed on top and peed on it -- it was on the exterior and dripped inside, so throughout the bag pretty well. And she peed on it a couple of times, not just once. It was a $600+ suitcase, so figured I'd try to save it. I used Out! pet odor eliminator (this stuff - it's an enzyme cleaner like tiramisu recommends) and it totally got the smell out. Completely. No lingering hint of cat pee at all, and I have a super-picky nose. I had to apply it a couple of times, and I let it sit for a long time, but it was totally worth it. The hitch is that you have to use the product with warm water, so your bag is probably going to dry stiff, and then you're going to have to work get it back to its nice squishiness. Maybe you can at least do this and then LMB can recondition it from there. I have to say, as a pet owner, that I don't think any of the powdered stuff is going to work, either the baking soda stuff (which I've used in the litterbox before) or the enzyme stuff, since you need to lift out what's in the leather fibers or it will smell again. Good luck - I hope LMB has good news for you, but you may be able to get the smell out and then just need to soften it back up from being waterlogged...

Feb 9th, 2008, 06:09 PM	#33
ivylouwho Handbag Connoisseur! Location: So. California	Re: my cat peed on my bbag! Wow! What did you do to piss off your cat? (no pun intended)