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I don't know if this is the correct forum but I NEED HELP!!!! My boys (2 male cocker spaniels) have adopted a habit of lifting their legs on my husband's grills. (Doesn't make hubby too happy!). My husband doesn't rinse the cement patio off diligently and I'm afraid the smell is down locked into the cement. I've tried spraying it with the Nature's Miracle, letting it sit in the sun and then rinsing again. Well, that hasn't worked. It's pretty bad when we can sit in the family room and smell old urine through the windows. I'm obsessed with getting rid of this odor!!!! Does anyone have any suggestions? I was told to try Urine Gone. Do you think that'll work?
Honestly I would give the patio a really thorough hosing down with water, I think the problem is the urine has soaked way down into the concrete, but when you spray something on it, it just gets what's close to the surface, so no matter what you spray it's not going to do any good. A lot of those sprays like Urine Gone will work, but unless you use gallons of it, it won't get far enough down into the concrete to do much good. But if you soak and soak and soak the patio with water, hopefully it'll get in dilute it and wash things out. May take a lot of rinsing though, but water's cheaper than any of the other things you could try. Then once you've got it washed out and are sure it's gone, let the patio dry thoroughly and then put some concrete sealer on it, that should help keep things from soaking down into the cement as much.
There are also little posts you can buy that have some sort of attractant in them that'll encourage the dogs to pee on them, that way you can pick where in the yard you'd like the dogs to relieve themselves.
I would start with a pressure wash, followed with some bleach - allow to almost dry, then pressure wash it out.
After that, some of one of the "pet" products might discourage the dogs.
If not - invest in a fido-shock and build a plastic fence to support it.
Had a male dog destroy 150 ft of wrought iron fence - rebuilt and added fido-shock. Worked for years (even though the charger quit).
When he crossed the rainbow bridge, we got replacement dogs with much longer hair - FS did not faze them - switched to a 5-joule cattle fence charger. Problem solved.
After that all I had to do was put up a single wire fence around anyplace I did not want them to go. Even though it was not hooked up, they never crossed it, used it to relieve themselves, or mark their territory.
People around here use tomato juice to get the smell off of their dogs and other animals when they get sprayed by skunks. I've never had to try it, cross my fingers, but everyone knows about it so it must work.
Johnny Chouke "Happy Handyman" from San Antonio, has a column in our local weekly paper and wrote about a solution, but he did not identify the product.
