51. Nature's Miracle

Ok.

I have elderly cats: Hickory and Bleys are each 15 years old. And Hickory, I think, has started to get lazy about where she should or shouldn't urinate. She's fond of the dining room.

I'd been using a couple of different sprays to get rid of the cat urine smell, but every time I walked in the house, I was hit with it again. I tried a variety of natural remedies and chemical remedies and nothing was working. Plus, with Daisy a bit sensitive to chemicals in general, I didn't want to get too toxic. I was debating just tossing the rug, the huge room-sized area rug, and starting over, but I was tired even considering dragging it out to the alley.

So I went to the pet store and Nature's Miracle was recommended. It's supposedly some sort of enzyme thing that kills the odor on a cat-level as well as a human one, to keep the cats from returning to the same spot. I was happy to give it a try. I went home and sprayed the 3 areas that I thought were probably to blame.

The next day, I still smelled the urine. But the label said to wait until it was completely dry.

The next day, today, I still smelled it when I got home from church.

Then I got home from the barbecue this evening. And nothing. Nothing at all. No cover-up smell, no urine. Gone.

Well then.